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Homeschooling in Wyoming: requirements, laws & how to start

Since a 2024 law change, Wyoming no longer requires submitting your curriculum to the local school board. You provide a basic academic educational program covering core subjects.

Homeschooling is legal in Wyoming, and it got simpler in 2024: the legislature eliminated the long-standing requirement to submit your curriculum to the local school board each year. Wyoming is now among the lower-regulation states.

What remains is the substantive standard: your homeschool must provide a 'basic academic educational program' — a sequentially progressive curriculum in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature, and science. Nobody reviews or approves it anymore; you simply have to actually provide it.

What Wyoming requires

Notice & registration

As of the 2024 change, the annual curriculum submission to the school board is gone. If your child is currently enrolled in school, send a written withdrawal so records are clean. Because the change is recent, it's worth a quick confirmation with your district that no local paperwork lingers.

Required subjects

Your program must offer sequentially progressive instruction in reading, writing, math, civics, history, literature, and science. How and when you teach them is entirely your call.

Testing & records

No testing, assessments, or attendance reporting are required. Keeping a curriculum list and yearly work samples is smart self-protection and makes transcripts easy later.

How to start homeschooling in Wyoming
  1. 1

    If your child attends school, send a written withdrawal letter and keep a copy.

  2. 2

    Confirm with your district that no legacy local forms apply since the 2024 simplification.

  3. 3

    Plan coverage of the seven subject areas across your year at your child's level.

  4. 4

    Start a light records folder: curriculum used, work samples, and (in high school) a transcript.

  5. 5

    Choose a sequentially progressive curriculum across those subjects — that structure is precisely what Wyoming's legal standard describes.

The record-keeping part, handled.

Whatever Wyoming asks for — attendance, subject coverage, progress evidence, transcripts — Cullinan Academy tracks it automatically as your kids learn: verified mastery records, time-on-task, printable transcripts with GPA, and state report templates. No spreadsheet required.

Wyoming homeschool FAQs
Do I still submit my curriculum to the Wyoming school board?

No — the 2024 law change removed the annual submission requirement. The subject standard still applies; the paperwork does not.

Is any testing required in Wyoming?

No. There is no testing, evaluation, or reporting requirement for homeschoolers.

What does 'basic academic educational program' mean in practice?

A curriculum that progresses logically through reading, writing, math, civics, history, literature, and science. Any coherent full curriculum satisfies it.

Can homeschoolers join public school activities in Wyoming?

Wyoming generally allows homeschool participation in school activities, subject to activity-association eligibility rules — coordinate with your local school.

How does graduation work?

You issue the diploma and transcript. Wyoming's community colleges and university admit homeschool graduates regularly with a parent transcript and test scores where required.

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This page is general information, not legal advice. Homeschool law changes, and districts sometimes apply it differently. Verify current requirements with your state's department of education or a local homeschool association before filing anything. Content last reviewed 2026-07.

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