What state has the highest dropout rate?
Andrew Rivera
Published Jan 17, 2026
The states with the highest percentage of students not graduating on time were New Mexico (28.9%) and Oregon (23.3%). On-time graduation rates are lowest in Wheeler County, Oregon, where 74% of children fail to complete high school on time.
What are the highest dropout rate?
In 2019, the high school drop out rate for American Indian/Alaska Natives in the United States was 9.6 percent -- the highest rate of any ethnicity. In comparison, the high school drop out rate for Asians was just under two percent.What state has the lowest drop out rate?
Here are the 10 states with the lowest High School graduation rates:
- Montana (94.00%)
- Alaska (93.00%)
- Maine (93.00%)
- Minnesota (93.00%)
- New Hampshire (93.00%)
- North Dakota (93.00%)
- Vermont (93.00%)
- Wyoming (93.00%)
What are the top 10 least educated states?
Here's how every state ranked in most to least educated:
- Massachusetts.
- Connecticut.
- Maryland.
- New Jersey.
- Virginia.
- Vermont.
- New York.
- New Hampshire.