Wyoming Classical Academy building officially opens

CASPER (WNE) — Parents, students, staff and state officials gathered Tuesday evening to celebrate the official opening of Wyoming Classical Academy’s new campus. 

Wyoming Classical Academy is a charter school that opened in 2023, and it was previously housed in the old Mills Elementary School. 

The new school, which was designed with expansion in mind, is a two-story building with various classrooms, a lunch room and a gymnasium.

The building is around 36,000 square feet and will house kindergarten through eighth grade students for the first year. The school’s plan is to add one grade level per year up to 12th grade. 

Megan Degenfelder, the state’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, attended the ribbon cutting Tuesday. 

“And this right here, these hundreds of people, you are all the result of a truly historic change in Wyoming,” Degenfelder said. “This was a big monumental change in state law to allow for state authorized charters. I know it sounds very boring, but that’s the reason we can have incredible schools like Wyoming Classical Academy.” 

Degenfelder has been a loud champion of school choice and charter schools in Wyoming. 

The first day of school for Wyoming Classical Academy is Monday, Aug. 25, 2025.

This story was published on August 21, 2025.