Honest Answers to Real Questions

Tuition is $7,000 per academic year and covers the full core program: your child's own account on our interactive learning platform and a complete grade-catered core curriculum covering Wyoming's required subjects (reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature, and science) for the academic year.

Wyoming's Steamboat Legacy Scholarship provides $7,000 per eligible student for 2026-27, deposited quarterly, and ESA families may use those funds for qualified education expenses under W.S. 21-2-904 — tuition, curriculum, tutoring, and educational technology among them. Learning devices are a separate purchase, priced on their own (see the Tuition page). As long as your student doesn't need extras beyond core K-12 academics, tuition is the whole bill.

No — IEPs and 504 plans stay with public school districts. Homeschooling, including through the ESA program, is a parental placement under federal special-education law (IDEA), and families seeking special-education evaluations or IEP services can contact their local school district's special education department.

But practically? Bring your child's old IEP or 504 to us anyway. The program adapts to each child as best we possibly can, accommodations cost nothing extra here, and the platform itself was built for kids who learn differently (multiple explanation styles, no timers, unlimited tries, pause anytime). See the Special Needs page.

Every lesson has a built-in tutor chat where your child can ask anything ("I don't get step 2," "explain it like I'm 5") and get a patient answer. It's built to be anxiety-aware and encouraging, never shaming. And it has a safety net we consider non-negotiable: a built-in crisis-language check on every message. If a student's message trips it, the tutor stops the lesson, responds with care, and an alert goes to the parent right away.

A learning device is a separate purchase, priced on its own (our recommended devices list can help you choose). Beyond that: extras past core academics — one-on-one tutoring, SAT prep help, and specialty electives like baking, fashion, or design. Fees depend on the request, and you approve any fee before it's added. Accommodations are never one of the extras. Those are included.

Maybe, and we want you to check first. Homeschool works very differently in high school: credits, transcripts, and graduation requirements all come into play, and how they're recognized depends on your district and your student's goals. Contact your school district before enrolling a high schooler to confirm this is the right fit. If it is, our high school track is live now, with transcript records kept on the platform as your student works.

It's a program for every Wyoming family. The core curriculum is Wyoming's required academic subjects, period. Bible study is offered as an optional elective for families who want it, and it's always the family's choice. Families of every background are genuinely welcome here.

The curriculum is built to Wyoming's homeschool requirements: a basic academic educational program with sequentially progressive instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature, and science, across the full academic year. Our platform tags each unit to the Wyoming academic standard it teaches. Every year counts as a complete, documented year of instruction.

One update worth knowing: under HB 46 (2025), effective July 1, 2025, homeschool families are no longer required to submit their curriculum annually to the local school board. Older websites still saying otherwise are quoting pre-2025 law.

Proof of age, proof of income, and shot records (or a written statement that your child will not be receiving vaccinations). Steamboat Legacy families also submit their approval documentation with the approved amount. We never ask for your child's Social Security number — we don't need it, so we don't collect it. See the Enrollment page for the full checklist.

No, and please don't try. For your security, this website does not collect Social Security numbers or documents. After you contact us, we set up a secure channel with you personally for exchanging enrollment documents.

Yes. Private-pay tuition is $7,000 per academic year, and multi-student household discounts are available for private-pay families: 20% off tuition for your second student, 15% off for your third, and 5% off for each additional student. A monthly payment plan is available too — details on the Tuition page.

Then we start where your child actually is, not where a chart says they should be. Lessons on the platform can be explained multiple ways, practice is ungraded, and mastery checks allow unlimited tries. The program adapts to each child. That's the approach the whole program is built on.

Families using Steamboat Legacy funds must follow the ESA Family Handbook, and continued enrollment in Elise's Elected Education is contingent on complying with all Steamboat Legacy requirements. We'll help you stay compliant. It protects your award, your child's academic year, and the program.