Best School Psychology Programs in Wyoming Rankings for 2026

Wyoming credentials school psychologists through two different agencies, and the one you need depends entirely on where you want to work. If you plan to work in Wyoming public schools, which is where almost all of the roughly 120 school psychologists in the state are employed, you license through the Professional Teaching Standards Board (PTSB). PTSB issues a Standard Educator License with a Professional Services Endorsement for School Psychologist. To get it you need a master's or specialist-level degree in school psychology, an institutional recommendation from your program, official transcripts, and a fingerprint-based background check. The license is valid for five years and lets you serve in any Wyoming district in your area of preparation.

Here is the step-by-step version. First, finish a NASP-approved specialist program (an EdS or SSP, usually around 60 to 72 credits), because Wyoming has none of its own and a NASP-approved degree is the cleanest way to satisfy the requirements. Second, complete the internship that program builds in: the NASP standard, which Wyoming follows, is 1,200 hours with at least 600 of them in a school setting. Third, pass the Praxis School Psychologist exam (#5403) with a score of at least 155, the same score that earns the Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP) credential. Fourth, have your program recommend you to PTSB, submit your transcripts, clear the background check, and complete the Wyoming and U.S. constitution requirement. Then you apply for the endorsement.

The second route is for private practice. To see clients outside the public school system, you do not use PTSB at all. You go through the Wyoming Board of Psychology, which certifies a Specialist in School Psychology. Wyoming accepts the NCSP as a route to that certification, so if you already passed the Praxis and hold national certification, you are most of the way there. Note that a certified Specialist in School Psychology practices under the supervision of a licensed psychologist under the Board's rules. Most Wyoming school psychologists only hold the PTSB endorsement and never need the Board of Psychology credential.

Wyoming pays school psychologists below the national median, and there is no honest way around that. The BLS May 2025 data puts the Wyoming median at $83,740, against a national median of $95,990. That is a premium of roughly negative 12.8%, so the typical Wyoming school psychologist earns about $12,000 less than the national midpoint. The bottom 10% in Wyoming earn around $60,500 and the top 10% reach about $111,690, so the ceiling exists but it sits lower than in high-paying states. These figures reflect a roughly 10-month, school-year calendar, the same as everywhere else.

Two things soften the lower headline number. First, Wyoming has no state income tax, so a $83,740 salary here keeps more take-home pay than the same number would in a state that taxes income. That gap can be worth a few thousand dollars a year depending on your situation. Second, Wyoming's cost of living outside Jackson is moderate, and the same paycheck stretches further in Cheyenne or Casper than it would on the West Coast. BLS did not publish metro-level wage rows for school psychologists in Wyoming for May 2025, so there is no city-by-city table to show here. The honest read is one statewide number: a frontier workforce of about 120 school psychologists earning a median of $83,740, with no income tax taking a cut.

Since Wyoming has no in-state program, your decision is really about format and geography: do you relocate to a neighboring-state program, or stay put and study online. Here is how the realistic options sort out.