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Graduate and professional students in private schools

Measure: Private school enrollment: Graduate or professional school, private. 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: 37.9 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 70.5 %
RI 65.3 %
DE 41.1 %
CT 48.8 %
NJ 45.5 %
MD 40.4 %
MA 67.2 %
VT 37.5 %
NH 46 %

Lowest: 11.9 to 21.7 %
Group 2: 21.7 to 29.6 %
Group 3: 29.6 to 34.9 %
Group 4: 34.9 to 42.1 %
Highest: 42.1 to 70.5 %

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	District of Columbia	70.5
2	Massachusetts	67.2
3	Rhode Island	65.3
4	New York	56.7
5	Pennsylvania	52.1
6	Connecticut	48.8
7	New Hampshire	46
8	New Jersey	45.5
9	Illinois	44.1
10	California	42.1
10	Tennessee	42.1
12	Delaware	41.1
13	Florida	40.9
14	Maryland	40.4
15	Missouri	38.9
16	Maine	38.5
17	Vermont	37.5
18	Utah	36.5
19	North Carolina	36.3
20	Minnesota	36
21	Arizona	34.9
22	Iowa	34
23	Louisiana	33.9
24	Virginia	32.8
25	Oregon	32.4
26	Nevada	31.9
27	Georgia	31.8
28	Washington	31
29	Ohio	30.6
30	Hawaii	30.4
31	South Carolina	29.6
32	Nebraska	29.4
33	Colorado	28.9
34	Kentucky	26.7
35	Texas	26.1
36	Wisconsin	25.9
37	Indiana	25.8
38	Oklahoma	23.9
39	Kansas	23.8
40	Mississippi	22
41	Idaho	21.7
42	Arkansas	21.2
43	Alaska	20.9
44	Michigan	20.6
45	Alabama	20.5
46	Montana	20.4
47	New Mexico	17.8
48	South Dakota	17.3
49	West Virginia	15.6
50	North Dakota	14.1
51	Wyoming	11.9

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 private school enrollment: Graduate or professional school, private (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-private-school-enrollment-graduate-or-professional-school-private/

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