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Overall, 90.3% of Americans over the age of 25 had graduated from high school in 2021, with the highest level found in the state of Massachusetts at 96.1% and the lowest in the state of California at 84.4%.
The District of Columbia has the highest educational attainment in the United States. 90.30% of the population has a high school diploma or higher and 56.60% have a Bachelor’s degree or higher. West Virginia has the lowest percentage of educational attainment of a Bachelor’s degree or higher of 19.90%.
This section takes a look at which states have the highest percentage of educational attainment at 3 levels: High School (the completion of which is mandatory unless the student has parental permission to withdraw at age 16), Bachelor’s/Undergraduate, and Advanced/Graduate.
Annual tables on educational attainment from the Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic supplement (ASEC).
United States Education Dashboard shows what the U.S. Department of Education considers to be important indicators of how the nation, and each state, is progressing on the outcomes necessary to achieve the national goal of once again having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.
In 2021, 29.4% of men age 25 and older had completed a high school diploma or GED as their highest level of educational attainment, compared with 26.5% of women age 25 and older. In 2021, of adults age 25 and older who had completed a bachelor’s degree or more, 53.1% were women and 46.9% were men.
The states leading in high school completion are predominantly located in the Northern and Western parts of the country. Montana tops the list with an impressive 94.0% completion rate, immediately followed by Wyoming, Vermont, Minnesota, and New Hampshire, whose completion rates hover above 93%.
Release Table for 2023, Educational Attainment, Annual: Bachelor's Degree or Higher by State. FRED: Download, graph, and track economic data.
Statistics in Schools brings school subjects to life using real-world Census Bureau statistics to create materials for use year after year for K-12 students. Educational attainment refers to the highest level of education that an individual has completed.
Census Bureau data table S1501 - Educational Attainment. Table from ACS 1-Year Estimates Subject Tables, released by American Community Survey.