Wyoming became one of the lightest homeschool states in the country on July 1, 2025, when the Homeschool Freedom Act took effect and ended the long-standing requirement to submit a curriculum to the local school board each year. A family educating at home now files nothing annually with anyone. What remains is substantive rather than procedural: the program must actually provide a basic academic educational program in seven named subjects, and a family pulling a child out of a public school must sit down with the district once to sign the withdrawal.
Legal framework
Wyoming Statutes 21-4-101(a)(v) defines a home-based educational program as instruction provided to a child by the child's parent or legal guardian or by a person they designate. The definition of "private school" in the same section expressly includes home-based educational programs, which is how a homeschool satisfies compulsory attendance under 21-4-102: every child whose seventh birthday falls on or before August 1 must attend a public or private school until reaching the sixteenth birthday or completing the tenth grade.
Subsection 21-4-102(b) states the whole ongoing obligation: the program shall meet the requirements of a basic academic educational program, and the person administering it is responsible for ensuring a compliant curriculum is administered. That program is defined in 21-4-101(a)(vi) as a sequentially progressive curriculum of fundamental instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature, and science, with an express clause that no home-based program must teach any concept in conflict with its religious doctrines or exclude any concept consistent with them.
Notification & registration
There is no annual notice, registration, or curriculum filing. The Wyoming Department of Education's homeschooling page confirms that as of July 1, 2025 curriculum submission to the district is no longer required. One interaction with the district remains for families leaving the public system: under 21-4-102(c), the parent of a child under 18 who has not enrolled the child elsewhere must meet in person with a school district counselor or administrator and provide written consent to the withdrawal, which includes a release of the student's identity and address to the Wyoming National Guard youth challenge program for recruitment purposes. A child in the state's education savings account program who notifies the district is deemed compliant with compulsory attendance.
Recordkeeping
Wyoming requires no testing, no assessments, and no records to be filed with the district or the state. Because nothing is collected, the records the family keeps are the only evidence the program existed: keep year-by-year course lists, work samples for the early grades, and a real transcript with courses, grades, and credits for grades nine through twelve. The Hathaway Scholarship's homeschool track described below asks families to document the success curriculum on a course form, which is far easier to complete from records kept as you go.
Graduation requirements
Wyoming prescribes no graduation or credit requirements for home-based programs; the parent administering the program decides when it is complete. The most useful reference for planning the high school years is the Hathaway success curriculum, which by award level expects roughly four years each of language arts, math, science, and social studies plus additional years of fine and performing arts, world language, or career-technical coursework, because meeting it keeps Wyoming's main scholarship in reach.
Who issues the diploma
The parent administering the home-based educational program issues the diploma in the name of the family's program, signed by the parent. No Wyoming statute gives the district board or the Department of Education a role in certifying completion of a home-based program, and since the 2025 law there is no filing on record at all, so the parent-issued diploma and transcript are the student's complete academic credentials.
College & military recognition
The University of Wyoming admits homeschooled students under the same standards as other graduates and asks the instructor to submit a Home School Credit Evaluation form with the transcript. Admission is assured with a cumulative high school GPA of 3.00 or higher, and applicants between 2.50 and 2.99 are admitted with support. Test scores are not required for admission, though they matter for aid.
The Hathaway Scholarship has a defined homeschool route to all four award levels, with eligibility set by test score rather than GPA: an ACT composite of 25 for Honors, 21 for Performance, 19 for Opportunity, and 17, or a WorkKeys score of 12, for the Provisional level. GPA is not considered for homeschool students, who instead document the success curriculum on a course form and must apply before their 21st birthday. For military enlistment, homeschool graduates qualify as Tier 1 applicants under current Department of Defense policy when they present a diploma and transcript.
Official source
For current statutory text, forms, and procedural updates, the authoritative source is the Wyoming Department of Education. Homeschool laws change, so confirm specific requirements directly with the state before relying on them.
Wyoming homeschool organizations
State agencies publish the rules, but they rarely help you interpret them. For that, Wyoming homeschool families generally turn to Homeschool Wyoming, the statewide homeschool association. Groups like this one track legislative changes, run conventions and support-group networks, and answer the practical questions that statutes leave open. We are not affiliated with them and receive nothing for the mention; they are simply the most useful next stop after the state's own guidance.