Friday, December 21, 2018

Least-Educated State: California No. 1 in Percentage of Residents 25 and Older Who Never Finished 9th Grade; No. 50 in High School Graduates

California ranks No. 1 among the 50 states for the percentage of its residents 25 and older who have never completed ninth grade and 50th for the percentage who have graduated from high school, according to new data from the Census Bureau.

Texas ranks No. 2 for the percentage of its residents 25 and older who have never completed ninth grade and 49th for the percentage who have graduated from high school.

California and Texas-while having the highest percentages of residents 25 and older who never finished ninth grade and the lowest percentages who graduated from high school-are the nation's two most populous states.

The 2,510,370 California residents 25 and older who, according to the Census Bureau, never finished ninth grade outnumber the entire populations of 15 other states.

Wyoming-with 1.8 percent-had nation's smallest percentage of residents 25 and older who never finished ninth grade.

In seventeen states, the percentage of residents 25 and older who at least graduated from high school was less than the nationwide percentage of 87.3 percent.

These nineteen states include both No. 14 California and No. 9 New York, which respectively ranked No.1 and No. 3 for the percentage of residents 25 and older who never finished ninth grade.


https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/least-educated-state-california-no-1-percentage-residents-25-and

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