Rankings · Schools

Highest elementary schools by state

Elementary schools.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

NCES's own definition: lowest grade 3 or below and highest grade 8 or below. Pre-kindergarten counts as below kindergarten, which matters because whether a state codes pre-K at all is a reporting convention — Texas does for thousands of schools and California for none.

  1. 1California5930
  2. 2Texas4707
  3. 3New York2570
  4. 4Illinois2293
  5. 5Florida2223
  6. 6Ohio1721
  7. 7Michigan1615
  8. 8Pennsylvania1615
  9. 9New Jersey1490
  10. 10North Carolina1457
  11. 11Georgia1300
  12. 12Washington1219
  13. 13Missouri1198
  14. 14Arizona1184
  15. 15Virginia1143
  16. 16Wisconsin1087
  17. 17Indiana1051
  18. 18Colorado1022
  19. 19Tennessee1016
  20. 20Massachusetts1013
  21. 21Minnesota974
  22. 22Oklahoma915
  23. 23Maryland888
  24. 24Kentucky716
  25. 25Oregon709
  26. 26Kansas701
  27. 27Alabama697
  28. 28Louisiana695
  29. 29South Carolina691
  30. 30Iowa660
  31. 31Utah606
  32. 32Connecticut588
  33. 33Nebraska528
  34. 34Arkansas509
  35. 35New Mexico439
  36. 36Nevada436
  37. 37Montana418
  38. 38Mississippi416
  39. 39West Virginia399
  40. 40Idaho380
  41. 41Maine339
  42. 42South Dakota314
  43. 43New Hampshire285
  44. 44North Dakota267
  45. 45Vermont201
  46. 46Hawaii183
  47. 47Wyoming183
  48. 48Rhode Island170
  49. 49Alaska168
  50. 50District of Columbia143
  51. 51Delaware121
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Source: NCES via Urban Institute. · How this is built