With the Every Student Succeeds Act continuing to shape state curriculums and students getting closer to the end of their summer breaks, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2019’s States with the Best & Worst School Systems.
In order to determine the best school systems in America, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 29 key measures of quality and safety. The data set ranges from pupil-teacher ratio to dropout rate to median standardized-test scores.
| States with the Best School Systems | States with the Worst School Systems | |||
| 1 | Massachusetts | 42 | Alaska | |
| 2 | New Jersey | 43 | Nevada | |
| 3 | Connecticut | 44 | Oregon | |
| 4 | Virginia | 45 | District of Columbia | |
| 5 | Vermont | 46 | Alabama | |
| 6 | Minnesota | 47 | West Virginia | |
| 7 | New Hampshire | 48 | Mississippi | |
| 8 | Nebraska | 49 | Arizona | |
| 9 | North Dakota | 50 | Louisiana | |
| 10 | Wyoming | 51 | New Mexico | |
Best vs. Worst
- Iowa has the lowest dropout rate, 9.00 percent, which is 3.2 times lower than in New Mexico, the highest at 28.90 percent.
To view the full report and your state or the District’s rank, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-best-schools/5335/
