Wyoming ESA and voucher money for homeschoolers
Education Savings Accounts (Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act): what taking the money does to your homeschool status, then the amount, who can apply, what it buys and how vendors are approved.
This is general information, not legal advice; check your state's own page. Laws change, and Wyoming's own statute and education department are the final word. The links below go straight to them.
Deadlines, forms and amounts checked on against the sources linked on this page.
What taking the money does to your homeschool status
A program exists, and taking the money changes your homeschool status. By statute, an ESA student taught at home is not a student of a home-based (homeschool) program. You sign a parent contract, teach the core subjects, and have your child take the state assessment or a nationally normed test.
Source: Wyoming Statutes Title 21, Education (Wyoming Legislature); Wyoming Department of Education: Education Savings Account
- How much
- $7,000 a year, deposited into the student's ESA account.Source: Wyoming Department of Education: Education Savings Account
- Who can apply
- K–12 students who are at least 5 by August 1, 2026, live in Wyoming and are not enrolled in a public school. Pre-K children qualify only under an income limit.Source: Wyoming Department of Education: Education Savings Account
- What it can pay for
- Tutoring (not by immediate family), textbooks and curriculum, educational technology, therapies, college admission and AP test costs, and classes at a public school, among others.Source: Wyoming Department of Education: Education Savings Account; Wyoming Statutes Title 21, Education (Wyoming Legislature)
- How vendors and providers are approved
- Purchases go through the Odyssey marketplace. Providers and vendors apply through the Department's Education Service Provider application, and a certification process for schools is being developed.Source: Wyoming Department of Education: Education Savings Account
- How and when to apply
- A supplemental 2026–27 application filled the last places first come, first served, with priority for siblings of current students. The waitlist returns with the 2027–28 application.Source: Wyoming Department of Education: Education Savings Account
- Court cases
- The Wyoming Supreme Court lifted a lower court's injunction, so the program is running, but the case over its constitutionality is still being litigated.Source: Wyoming Department of Education: Education Savings Account
The program's own page: Education Savings Accounts (Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act). Programs change their amounts, dates and rules every year, so read the current handbook before you apply or spend.
Before you decide
- Read what the money changes first. In some states taking it means you are no longer homeschooling under the homeschool law, and the program's own rules (an agreement, tests, a learning plan) apply instead.
- Keep every receipt and the program's approval emails; programs ask for them.
- Peabody Teach is free and sells nothing, so it is not a vendor in any program and has no stake in what you buy. There are no affiliate links on this page.
Wyoming checklist for this year · ESA and voucher money in every state
Where this comes from
- Wyoming Statutes Title 21, Education (Wyoming Legislature) (the law)
- Wyoming Department of Education: Homeschooling (state agency)
- Wyoming Department of Education: Education Savings Account (state agency)
Checked on October 29, 2026. This is general information, not legal advice. Laws and forms change; confirm a date with your school district or the state agency before you rely on it. For legal advice, ask a lawyer licensed in Wyoming; homeschool legal-help organizations and your state's homeschool groups can also point you to help. Something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.