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Preschool in private school: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Preschool in private school. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Private school enrollment by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-03

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National value: 41.1 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 32.8 %
RI 45.4 %
DE 37.9 %
CT 41.7 %
NJ 43.1 %
MD 53.9 %
MA 50.4 %
VT 50.1 %
NH 55.2 %

Lowest: 20.6 to 33.6 %
Group 2: 33.6 to 38.4 %
Group 3: 38.4 to 41.7 %
Group 4: 41.7 to 48.9 %
Highest: 48.9 to 57.6 %

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	Virginia	57.6
2	Hawaii	57.5
3	Oregon	57.3
4	New Hampshire	55.2
5	Maryland	53.9
6	Massachusetts	50.4
7	Vermont	50.1
8	Washington	49.5
9	Idaho	49.4
9	North Carolina	49.4
11	Pennsylvania	48.9
12	Montana	48.8
13	Florida	47.8
14	Tennessee	45.5
15	Rhode Island	45.4
16	South Carolina	43.4
17	New Jersey	43.1
18	Alaska	42.8
19	Georgia	42.7
20	Kentucky	42.4
21	Connecticut	41.7
22	Louisiana	41.3
23	Nevada	41.1
24	Utah	40.1
25	California	40
26	Illinois	39.7
27	Indiana	39.4
28	Mississippi	39.1
29	Missouri	39
30	Arizona	38.5
31	Maine	38.4
32	Ohio	38.2
33	Arkansas	38.1
34	Delaware	37.9
35	Alabama	37.3
36	Colorado	36.9
37	Wisconsin	36
38	Minnesota	35.9
39	Texas	34.9
40	New York	34.8
41	Michigan	33.6
42	District of Columbia	32.8
43	Nebraska	32.4
44	North Dakota	30.4
45	Oklahoma	29.5
46	South Dakota	29.2
47	Wyoming	27.8
48	Kansas	27.5
49	Iowa	27.4
50	New Mexico	23
51	West Virginia	20.6

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1401: School Enrollment. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by preschool in private school (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1401; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-preschool-in-private-school/

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