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Adults 25+ with high school only: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Educational attainment of adults 25+: High school graduate only, incl. equivalency. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Educational attainment of adults 25+ by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-29

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National value: 25.6 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 15.2 %
RI 26.1 %
DE 27.8 %
CT 25.3 %
NJ 24.7 %
MD 23.5 %
MA 22.1 %
VT 26.6 %
NH 26.8 %

Lowest: 15.2 to 23.8 %
Group 2: 23.8 to 25.5 %
Group 3: 25.5 to 27 %
Group 4: 27 to 28.9 %
Highest: 28.9 to 40 %

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.


1	West Virginia	40
2	Kentucky	32.7
3	Arkansas	32.4
4	Louisiana	32.2
5	Indiana	32.1
6	Ohio	31.8
7	Pennsylvania	31.4
8	Oklahoma	31
9	Tennessee	30
10	Missouri	29.3
11	Alabama	28.9
11	Iowa	28.9
11	Mississippi	28.9
14	Nevada	28.7
14	South Dakota	28.7
16	Wisconsin	28.3
17	Maine	27.9
18	Delaware	27.8
19	Alaska	27.6
20	Michigan	27.2
21	Georgia	27
21	Montana	27
23	New Hampshire	26.8
24	Wyoming	26.7
25	Vermont	26.6
26	South Carolina	26.5
27	Idaho	26.4
28	New Mexico	26.3
29	Rhode Island	26.1
30	Florida	26
31	Nebraska	25.5
32	Connecticut	25.3
32	Hawaii	25.3
34	Kansas	25.2
34	North Dakota	25.2
36	Illinois	24.9
37	New Jersey	24.7
38	Arizona	24.3
38	Texas	24.3
40	North Carolina	24
41	New York	23.8
42	Maryland	23.5
43	Minnesota	23.4
44	Oregon	23.2
45	Virginia	22.5
46	Massachusetts	22.1
47	Washington	21.9
48	Utah	21.8
49	California	20.4
50	Colorado	19.6
51	District of Columbia	15.2

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 educational attainment of adults 25+: High school graduate only, incl. equivalency (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1501; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-29. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-educational-attainment-of-adults-25-plus-high-school-graduate-only-incl-equivalency/

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