Percentage of children enrolled in pre-kindergarten, by state U.S. 2020

For the school year of 2019-20, about 79 percent of 3- and 4-year-olds in the District of Columbia were enrolled in pre-kindergarten programs. In Vermont, about 68 percent of 3- and 4-year-olds were enrolled in pre-K programs.

Percentage of children aged 3-and-4 years that were enrolled in pre-kindergarten programs in the United States in 2020, by state

Characteristic	Percentage of children enrolled
District of Columbia	79%
Vermont	68%
Oklahoma	38%
West Virginia	38%
Wisconsin	36%
Florida	36%
Iowa	35%
Georgia	30%
Texas	28%
Illinois	28%
New York	26%
New Jersey	26%
Arkansas	25%
Nebraska	25%
New Mexico	24%
California	24%
South Carolina	24%
Massachusetts	23%
Maine	22%
Maryland	22%
Kentucky	21%
United States	20%
Connecticut	18%
Colorado	17%
Kansas	17%
Alabama	17%
Louisiana	17%
Michigan	16%
Pennsylvania	16%
North Carolina	12%
Tennessee	11%
Oregon	10%
Virginia	9%
Alaska	7%
Washington	7%
Rhode Island	6%
North Dakota	6%
Minnesota	6%
Ohio	6%
Missouri	5%
Mississippi	4%
Nevada	4%
Delaware	4%
Arizona	3%
Utah	2%
Hawaii	2%
Guam	1%

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April 2021

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United States

Survey time period

2019 to 2020*

Supplementary notes

* Values are for the 2019-20 school year.
The respondent universe for this study is the state preschool administrators in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, plus the U.S. territories. Data are collected directly from these entities through a web-based survey form.
There are no pre-kindergarten programs in the following states for year 2019-2020: Idaho, Indiana, Montana, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Wyoming.

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