Wyoming asks a home educating family for nothing. No notice to the state, no curriculum sent anywhere, no testing, no approval. One requirement survives, and reading who it is aimed at is the most useful ten seconds you will spend on this.
The parent, guardian or other person having control or charge of any child under the age of eighteen (18), who has not otherwise notified the district of enrolling that child in a different school district or in a private school or home-based educational program, shall meet in person with a school district counselor or administrator to provide the school district with written consent to the withdrawal of that child from school attendance.
Wyoming Statutes 21-4-102(c)
Read the middle of it rather than the end. The in-person meeting is written for a parent who has not told the district where the child is going. It is a clause about a child disappearing from school, not about a child transferring to home education. Telling the district, in writing, that your child is entering a home-based educational program is what puts you outside it, by the clause’s own terms.
Why this is worth getting right
Because of what is on the form. The statute says the written consent to withdrawal “shall include a separate provision authorizing the release of the student’s identity and address to the Wyoming national guard youth challenge program” for the purpose of recruitment into it.
A family that signs a document it did not need to sign has given something away for nothing.
The Youth Challenge programme is a real programme and plenty of families would be glad to hear from it. That is not the point. The point is that the release rides along with a consent form written for a different situation, and a parent who has told the district exactly where their child is going should understand why they are being asked to sign one at all.
You will find guidance saying flatly that a Wyoming family withdrawing to home educate must meet a counsellor in person. That reading drops the “has not otherwise notified” clause, and it turns an ordinary transfer into a meeting and a signature nobody asked for. Read the statute at the links below and satisfy yourself.
So the withdrawal letter carries more weight here than anywhere
In every other state we have written about, the letter to the school is a courtesy, a record, or the thing that closes a roll. In Wyoming it is the sentence in the statute that separates a transfer from a disappearance, in the only state that asks for nothing else at all.
So send it in writing, say plainly that the child is being enrolled in a home-based educational program, and keep the reply. Your district may still have its own exit paperwork, which is theirs to ask for and worth asking about; the statute’s in-person requirement is a separate thing.
What Wyoming still expects of the teaching
H.B. 46, the Homeschool Freedom Act, was signed on 27 February 2025 and took effect on 1 July. It amended one subsection and changed one verb: a parent used to submit a curriculum to the local board of trustees, and now must ensure that one is administered. The standard it points at was not touched.
A sequentially progressive curriculum of fundamental instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science.
The “basic academic educational program” defined at Wyoming Statutes 21-4-101(a)(vi)
That is still the bar. Nobody reviews it, nobody approves it and nothing is filed, which does not make it smaller. Compulsory attendance in Wyoming runs from seven until sixteen, or until the tenth grade is completed, whichever comes first.
Where Wyoming sits in the series
| State | What you send the state | What the withdrawal letter does |
|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | A plan, for a committee to approve | Follows the approval |
| Vermont | An enrollment notice, and an attestation | Closes the roll |
| South Dakota | One notification, after you begin | Closes the roll |
| Wyoming | Nothing at all | Decides which statute you are under |
Leaving a Wyoming school this term?
Fifteen minutes on the phone covers what to put in the letter so the district is properly notified, what the basic academic educational program actually asks of a week, and what to ask about activities eligibility. No records needed to have the conversation, and deciding against it costs nothing.
What leaving actually requires
- A written notification to the district, naming where the child is going
That it is a home-based educational program, in those words. This is the step that matters, and it is the only one. - The reply, saved
Written confirmation that the district has recorded the withdrawal and knows the child is in a home-based educational program. In a state with no filings, this is the only document either side holds. - A curriculum you could describe if asked
Sequentially progressive, covering the seven named subjects. Nobody collects it. You are the only person who will ever know whether it exists. - The transcript and immunization records, requested in the same letter
Along with course descriptions for anything half finished. Schools release these readily while a student is fresh in mind and slowly a year later. - A question about activities, if that matters to you
Participation in school activities is dealt with at Wyoming Statutes 21-4-506 and the eligibility rules are the district’s and the activities association’s to state. Ask them directly what they require and get it in writing.
Doing it in order
Write the letter first
Before any meeting is proposed, before any form is offered. The letter is what establishes that the district has been notified where your child is going.
Say the words home-based educational program
Not moving, not leaving, not withdrawing. The statute’s clause turns on having notified the district of enrolling the child in one, so name it.
Ask for written confirmation
That the withdrawal is recorded and the destination noted. Keep it with the birth certificate rather than in a mail folder.
Read any form you are handed before signing it
Including whether it carries the release of your child’s identity and address to a recruitment programme. Ask which statute the form is being issued under.
Start teaching to the standard from day one
Reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science, sequentially progressive. There is no filing and no test, and the bar is still the bar.
The withdrawal letter, ready to send
Short is correct, and the second sentence is the one doing the work. This goes to the school your child attends now, addressed to the principal and copied to the district office.
Dear Principal [name],
This letter is formal notice that our child, [student full name], date of birth [DOB], currently in grade [grade], is withdrawn from [school] effective [last day of attendance].
This letter also notifies the district that [he/she/they] is being enrolled in a home-based educational program, as provided for in Wyoming Statutes 21-4-102.
Please update your enrollment records accordingly and confirm receipt of this letter in writing, including that the district has recorded the home-based educational program. Please also send a complete transcript, immunization records, and course descriptions for any course in progress to [address / email].
Thank you for your help.
[Your name]
[Address]
[Telephone]
What we can and cannot tell you
High School of America is an accredited private school based in Florida, not a Wyoming school. This page has quoted the surviving clause in full, said plainly who it is aimed at, named what the consent form carries, given the compulsory ages, and quoted the standard the teaching still has to meet. What it will not do is tell you which route to take, or suggest that enrolling here changes what the district needs to be told. The notification is owed to your district whatever school your child attends next, and the choice belongs to your household, least of all to a school that gains from your enrollment. Read the statute yourself and ask the district in writing.
If you want a person to talk it through with, that is what the counselor call is for, and it is not a sales appointment. Bring whatever records you have, or none.
The statute is at Wyoming Statutes 21-4-102, with the same section published here as well so you can read it twice in two places, and the Department of Education keeps a homeschooling page. The wider picture sits on the requirements state by state, and if you are early enough to still be deciding, the three-route comparison weighs this against staying exactly where you are.