How to Homeschool in Wyoming

What Wyoming homeschool law requires

The whole list for the 2026–2027 school year, from Wyoming Statutes §§ 21-4-101 and 21-4-102, as amended by House Bill 46 of 2025, and the Department of Education's homeschooling page:

Wyoming Department of Education: homeschooling House Bill 46 (2025), Enrolled Act 28: curriculum no longer submitted

How to start homeschooling in Wyoming

1. If your child is enrolled in a public school, tell the district that the child is enrolling in a home-based educational program; a parent who has not done so meets a district counselor or administrator in person to sign a consent to withdrawal. Nothing is filed with the state, and the yearly curriculum submission ended on July 1, 2025.
2. Build a sequentially progressive curriculum of fundamental instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science. Faith Schooling covers reading, writing, mathematics and literature; you add civics, history and science. The curriculum need not include any concept in conflict with your religious doctrines, nor exclude any consistent with them.
3. Plan the year. Wyoming counts no days or hours; the free Homeschool Rhythm Builder turns your week into a printable plan, and a plan is what sequentially progressive looks like on a calendar.
4. Keep the pages. Nothing is filed or submitted, but a dated stack of finished work in the seven subjects is the record a school will want if your child ever enrolls.

How Faith Schooling covers Wyoming's requirements

Wyoming sets no days or hours for a home-based educational program. A year of 36 weeks with four or five mornings a week is the common shape, and it is yours to set.

Wyoming's statute says in so many words that a home-based program need not include anything in conflict with its religious doctrines nor exclude anything consistent with them, and asks for a sequentially progressive curriculum in seven subjects. Four of the seven are ours in full: reading and literature are Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, writing is Grammar Garden, mathematics is Building Number Sense, each a sequenced textbook with a teaching guide for every grade from Kindergarten to Grade 5, which is what sequentially progressive means on paper. Civics, history and science are yours to choose.

Wyoming asks you to keep no records. Keep them anyway: the dated, finished pages of each program are your own record of the year, and they answer any question a school ever asks when a child moves between home and classroom.

Reading

Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency K–5 reading textbooks in four quarterly volumes a year, with complete teaching guides

Writing

Grammar Garden K–5 language and writing coursebooks, four a year, with Preceptor Guides

Mathematics

Building Number Sense K–5 mathematics textbooks; Kindergarten to Grade 2 add practice workbooks and teaching guides

Literature

Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency

Civics, history and science

Your choice Faith Schooling does not publish these subjects; choose what fits your family

Bible

The Apostolic Academy not something Wyoming requires; free: Scripture memory, Bible study and printables for the family

The curriculum map Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency Grammar Garden Building Number Sense HARVEST placement Homeschool Rhythm Builder

Financial assistance for Wyoming homeschoolers

Wyoming's Education Savings Account (the Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act), run by the Department of Education, pays $7,000 a year for a Wyoming resident aged four or older in pre-K through grade 12 who is not enrolled in a public school (pre-K accounts are limited by income); the statute says a child in the ESA program who gives the district notice is in compliance with the attendance law.

The Wyoming Supreme Court lifted a lower court's injunction and the state is distributing the funds while the constitutional case continues. The 2026–2027 application period closed on August 6, 2026, with quarterly payments of $1,750 from September 2026 to May 2027.

• Eligible students receive $7,000 annually for educational expenses; eligible are Wyoming residents aged 4 and in pre-K through grade 12 who are not enrolled in a public school, with pre-K families at or below 250% of the federal poverty guidelines. Source: Wyoming Department of Education, Education Savings Account, read 9 October 2026.
• The Wyoming Supreme Court has lifted the lower court's injunction and the state is moving forward with the program, fully authorized to distribute the funds while litigation over its constitutionality continues. Source: Wyoming Department of Education, Education Savings Account, read 9 October 2026.
• The 2026–27 application period closed on August 6, 2026; disbursements run from early September 2026 to early May 2027 in quarterly payments of $1,750. Source: Wyoming Department of Education, Education Savings Account, read 9 October 2026.
• A child in the ESA program who gives the district notice is deemed in compliance with the compulsory attendance law (W.S. § 21-4-102(d)). Source: Wyoming Statutes, Title 21, read 9 October 2026.

Education Savings Account (Wyoming Department of Education)

What Wyoming does not require, and you should still do

• Place your child. Wyoming tests no homeschooled child; HARVEST, the free placement check, names the grade and quarter to start in reading and math.
• Plan the year. Wyoming counts no days or hours; the Homeschool Rhythm Builder turns your week into a printable plan, and a plan is what sequentially progressive looks like on a calendar.
• Keep the pages. Nothing is filed or submitted any more, but a dated stack of finished work in the seven subjects is the record a school will want if your child ever enrolls.

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