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