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High school completion, Black adults: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: High school completion, Black adults (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Educational attainment by race and Hispanic origin by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 89.5 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 89.1 %
RI 82 %
DE 93 %
CT 89 %
NJ 90.5 %
MD 92.3 %
MA 88.9 %
VT 80.1 %
NH 83.8 %

Lowest: 80.1 to 85.4 %
Group 2: 85.4 to 88.6 %
Group 3: 88.6 to 90.2 %
Group 4: 90.2 to 91.4 %
Highest: 91.4 to 99 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: Rates for smaller groups rest on small ACS samples and have wide margins of error; groups the Census Bureau does not publish for a state are left out.


1	Hawaii	99
2	Arizona	94.9
3	Colorado	94
4	Delaware	93
5	Washington	92.6
6	Maryland	92.3
7	Texas	92.2
8	California	91.8
9	Montana	91.6
10	West Virginia	91.5
11	Nevada	91.4
12	Tennessee	90.9
13	Illinois	90.8
13	Oklahoma	90.8
15	Kansas	90.7
15	Oregon	90.7
17	Georgia	90.5
17	New Jersey	90.5
19	Pennsylvania	90.4
19	Virginia	90.4
21	Alaska	90.2
22	Iowa	90.1
23	North Carolina	89.9
24	Missouri	89.2
25	District of Columbia	89.1
25	Ohio	89.1
27	Connecticut	89
28	Massachusetts	88.9
29	Michigan	88.8
29	Nebraska	88.8
31	Indiana	88.6
32	Arkansas	88.2
33	Kentucky	88.1
34	South Carolina	87.9
35	Alabama	87.6
36	Florida	87.4
36	New Mexico	87.4
38	Wisconsin	87.3
39	New York	86.8
40	North Dakota	86.7
41	South Dakota	85.4
42	Mississippi	85
43	Minnesota	84.6
44	Louisiana	84.3
44	Maine	84.3
46	Idaho	83.8
46	New Hampshire	83.8
46	Wyoming	83.8
49	Utah	82.3
50	Rhode Island	82
51	Vermont	80.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1501: Educational Attainment. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by high school completion, Black adults (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1501; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-high-school-completion-black-adults/

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