Field guide · Confirm with the authority before you file
Homeschooling in Wyoming
Nothing to file each year. Wyoming asks for no registration and no annual return. If you take an enrolled child out of school, tell the district the child is moving to a home-based program. Without that notice, you meet a school district counselor or administrator in person and give written consent to withdraw a child under 18; that consent must also allow the district to release the child's name and address to the Wyoming National Guard Youth Challenge Program, for recruitment.
Nothing to file each year, level 1 of 4
What Wyoming actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.
You tell
No one, in an ordinary year
If you take an enrolled child out of school, tell the district the child is moving to a home-based program. Without that notice, you meet a school district counselor or administrator in person and give written consent to withdraw a child under 18; that consent must also allow the district to release the child's name and address to the Wyoming National Guard Youth Challenge Program, for recruitment.
By
Nothing is due each year
No date in the year. A notice falls due only on the event under You tell.
Who reviews it
Nothing is sent for review each year
The board of trustees of your school district enforces the compulsory attendance law, through the attendance officers it appoints.
If you skip it
Possible penalty for willful failure to comply
A parent who willfully fails, neglects or refuses to comply with the compulsory attendance law may be punished by not more than ten (10) days of community service, and may be subject to proceedings under the Child Protection Act or the Children In Need of Supervision Act, or both. There is no yearly filing to miss.
Who is in charge
The board of trustees of your school district, which enforces the compulsory attendance law. Nothing is filed with it each year.
Who reviews your child is set out at the top of this page, in the authority's own terms.
The year
What you must file
Nothing in an ordinary year. If you take an enrolled child out of school, tell the district the child is moving to a home-based program. Without that notice, you meet a school district counselor or administrator in person and give written consent to withdraw a child under 18; that consent must also allow the district to release the child's name and address to the Wyoming National Guard Youth Challenge Program, for recruitment. Beyond that, there is no registration and no annual return to submit in Wyoming. That freedom is real, and it carries a quiet catch: because nobody ever required a record, there is no file to reach for the day someone finally asks what your child has learned.
The words a reviewer uses
'Basic academic educational program': a sequentially progressive curriculum of fundamental instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science.
The part the paperwork does not cover
Filing on time is the easy half. The harder half is the year in between: showing what your child actually learned, in words the reviewer recognises, without turning your home into a school.
That is what this tool is for. You say what your child did, in a sentence. It maps that to the published standards we hold for Wyoming, which today are English (326 of 383), Mathematics (497 of 574), Science (480 of 604), Social Studies (83 of 1631) and Physical Education (9 of 106). Those figures count the topics we carry for ages 5 to 12 that cite one of Wyoming's published standards. A further 151 Social Studies topics are matched only to the national C3 Framework, which is guidance, not Wyoming's own standard. Arts is not in the app for Wyoming yet. A moment in any of those subjects is kept on the general map for your child's age and named that way in the record, so the record never cites Wyoming's curriculum where we hold none of it. Then it builds the record you can hand over the day someone asks. See how it works.
Sources
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Sources last checked on 2026-10-07: Wyoming Statutes Title 21 (Education), compiled by the Wyoming Legislature: W.S. 21-4-101 to 21-4-107. That is the date we checked, not the date the rule last changed.
The law itself: W.S. § 21-4-101; § 21-4-102(b), (c); § 21-4-103. We hold no direct link to the authority's page for this jurisdiction.
Guidance, not legal advice. Rules change and districts vary: confirm with the authority named above before you file.