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School enrollment, ages 16 to 19: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: School enrollment, ages 16 to 19 (%, derived). All 49 states with data in Teens not in school and not working by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

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

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National value: 85 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DE 84.6 %
CT 86.3 %
NJ 89.5 %
MD 87.1 %
MA 89.4 %
VT 88 %
NH 84.4 %

Lowest: 67.8 to 81.8 %
Group 2: 81.8 to 83.5 %
Group 3: 83.5 to 84.6 %
Group 4: 84.6 to 86.9 %
Highest: 86.9 to 89.5 %

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. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: The District of Columbia and Rhode Island are blank: the Census Bureau did not publish this table for them in the 2025 1-year release.


1	New Jersey	89.5
2	Massachusetts	89.4
3	Pennsylvania	88.1
4	Vermont	88
5	California	87.9
6	Minnesota	87.6
7	New York	87.4
8	Maryland	87.1
9	Maine	87
10	North Dakota	86.9
11	Connecticut	86.3
12	Iowa	85.6
13	Illinois	85.5
14	Florida	85.4
15	Wisconsin	85.3
16	Nebraska	85.1
17	Mississippi	85
18	Michigan	84.9
19	Washington	84.7
20	Delaware	84.6
21	Ohio	84.5
21	Virginia	84.5
23	New Hampshire	84.4
24	Kansas	84.2
25	Alabama	84.1
25	Arizona	84.1
27	Kentucky	83.7
28	Indiana	83.5
28	Missouri	83.5
28	Oklahoma	83.5
28	South Dakota	83.5
32	Texas	83.3
33	Tennessee	83.2
34	North Carolina	83.1
35	Colorado	83
35	Hawaii	83
37	Georgia	82.8
38	Oregon	82.7
39	West Virginia	82.4
40	New Mexico	81.8
41	Utah	81.4
42	Louisiana	81.3
43	Wyoming	81.1
44	South Carolina	80.4
45	Arkansas	79.7
46	Idaho	78.7
47	Nevada	78.1
48	Montana	77.5
49	Alaska	67.8

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B14005: Sex by school enrollment by educational attainment by employment status for the population 16 to 19 years. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by school enrollment, ages 16 to 19 (%, derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B14005: Sex by school enrollment by educational attainment by employment status for the population 16 to 19 years; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-school-enrollment-ages-16-to-19/

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