Wyoming homeschool law for high school: graduation, diploma and records

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-4-102(a) requires a child of compulsory age to attend a public or private school, and § 21-4-101(a)(iii) defines a private school to include home-based educational programs. Section 21-4-102(b), as amended by HB 46 (2025), requires a home-based program to meet the basic academic educational program standard in § 21-4-101(a)(vi).

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-4-101(a); Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-4-102(a), (b); Wyoming Department of Education, Homeschooling

The law as of September 29, 2026.

Wyoming at a glance

As of September 29, 2026

Notice to the state: No notice required
Wyoming law requires no notice or filing to operate a home-based educational program. When a child under 18 leaves school, a parent who has not otherwise notified the district that the child is enrolling in a home-based program, a private school or another district must meet in person with a district counselor or administrator to give written consent to the withdrawal; the statute does not prescribe a form for that notification.Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-4-102(b), (c)
Records the law asks for: None required by law
Wyoming law does not require a home-based program to keep or submit records. Until July 1, 2025 the person administering the program had to submit a curriculum to the local board of trustees each year; HB 46 (2025) removed that requirement.Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-4-102(b); HB 46 (2025), Enrolled Act No. 28
Testing or evaluation: None required by law
Wyoming law sets no testing or assessment requirement for home-based educational programs.Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-4-102
Graduation requirements: None set by the state
Wyoming sets no graduation, course or credit requirements for home-based programs. The curriculum must provide sequentially progressive instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science, and need not include content that conflicts with the program's religious doctrines.Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-4-101(a)(vi)
Diploma: Issued by: parent
No Wyoming statute provides for a home-based program diploma or a state credential for home-based graduates; in practice the parent issues the diploma.Wyo. Stat. Ann. §§ 21-4-101, 21-4-102
Compulsory school ages: 7 to 16: a child whose seventh birthday falls on or before August 1 (or September 15 if the child started kindergarten under an approved early-entrance request) must attend until the 16th birthday or completion of the tenth grade.Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-4-102(a)

The legal options for homeschooling in Wyoming

Home-based educational programA parent or legal guardian, or a person they designate, may provide a home-based educational program, which must meet the requirements of a basic academic educational program: a sequentially progressive curriculum of fundamental instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science; since July 1, 2025 the curriculum is not submitted to the local school board. Basis: statuteWyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-4-101(a)(iii), (v), (vi); Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-4-102(b)
Private school, including a parochial, church or religious schoolA child may attend a private school, defined as a nonpublic elementary or secondary school providing a basic academic educational program, which may include parochial, church or religious schools and home-based educational programs. Basis: statuteWyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-4-101(a)(iii), (iv); Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-4-102(a)
Education savings account (Steamboat Legacy Scholarship) programA child participating in the ESA program under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-2-901 et seq. who gives notice of participation to the school district is deemed to comply with compulsory attendance; an ESA student receiving individualized instruction in a non-school setting is not considered a student of a home-based educational program. Basis: statuteWyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-4-102(d); Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-2-904(f)

What Wyoming law means for your transcript

The statute names subjects (reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science) but no credits, hours or grades, so the transcript's credit system is the parent's choice; the 120-hour Carnegie unit is a common convention, not a requirement.
Since HB 46 ended the curriculum filing, Wyoming law requires no filing that documents the home-based program, so the parent's transcript and course records are the main documentation; keeping them is practice, not law.
A Hathaway applicant from a home-based program must meet the success curriculum requirements of § 21-16-1307 as applicable (§ 21-16-1308(b)(iii)), so as practice the transcript can identify those courses clearly.

College admission and state aid for Wyoming homeschoolers

Students in a home-based educational program can qualify for Hathaway scholarships: the student must apply for an initial scholarship before the 21st birthday, meet the initial eligibility requirements other than attending and graduating from an eligible high school and the related GPA, comply with the success curriculum requirements of § 21-16-1307 as applicable, and reach the required test score, after which the student is eligible at the same level and to the same extent as graduates of eligible high schools.Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-16-1308(b)(iii)

Recent changes to Wyoming homeschool law

HB 46 (2025), Enrolled Act No. 28 (which HSLDA calls the 'Homeschool Freedom Act'), effective July 1, 2025, amended § 21-4-102(b) to remove the annual curriculum submission to the local board of trustees and the rule that failing to submit it was prima facie evidence the program did not meet the law; the person administering the program must still ensure that a curriculum meeting the basic academic educational program standard is administered. The Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act (2025 Wyo. Sess. Laws 216 to 220) created an ESA program whose participants are deemed to meet compulsory attendance (§ 21-4-102(d)); on May 14, 2026 the Wyoming Supreme Court reversed a preliminary injunction that had blocked it and remanded for further proceedings (Degenfelder v. Wyoming Education Association, 2026 WY 54).

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What we could not confirm

These points could not be checked against the statute or regulation text, so treat them with care:

Wyoming statutes were read from the legislature's compiled Title 21 PDF (wyoleg.gov), not a per-section page; the specific success curriculum course list in § 21-16-1307 was not reviewed.
The ESA program's operating status after the May 2026 ruling (for example how many families were funded for 2026-2027) comes from secondary sources and was not verified; the ruling itself was read.
HSLDA's statement that Wyoming became the 12th state with no notice requirement is HSLDA's characterization and is not repeated as a finding here.

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General information about Wyoming law as of September 29, 2026, not legal advice. Laws change, so check the statute before you rely on it. Found an error? Email [email protected].