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The figures come from the [U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey](https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2022.S1501), and they count the share of adults age 25 and over who have finished high school or earned an equivalent like a GED. That is educational attainment across everyone already living in a state, not the four-year rate of this year's seniors. A higher number simply means more grown-ups in that state hold a diploma.\n\nBy that measure, **Montana** comes out on top, where **94.0%** of adults have completed high school. **California** sits at the bottom at **83.9%**, with Texas a half-point ahead. The data is the 2018-2022 ACS 5-year estimate, the most recent five-year file behind this dataset.\n\nWhat stands out is how little separates the states. The gap from first to last is roughly 10 points, and most of the country bunches together in the high 80s and low 90s. On a map shaded by completion, almost every state lands in the same color band. This is not a ranking with a dramatic spread. It is a ranking where nearly everyone clears the bar, and the interesting question is who does not.\n```","order":2,"faqs":[]},{"tocTitle":"The CA and TX Outliers","contentTitle":"California and Texas Are the Outliers the Map Hides","content":"```\nTwo states genuinely break from the pack, and they happen to be the two largest. California falls more than **6 points** below the national average, and Texas more than 5. No other state sits as far from the middle as these two. They are the real story this data tells, and the reason has little to do with their classrooms.\n\nCalifornia and Texas are the two biggest immigrant-receiving states in the country. According to the [Migration Policy Institute](https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states), immigrants make up 28% of California's population, the highest share of any state, and California and Texas hold the two largest immigrant populations nationally. Nearly half of all immigrants nationwide report speaking English less than \"very well.\" Many of these adults finished secondary school in another country, and a Census tally of who holds a U.S.-style diploma does not capture that schooling.\n\nThat is what pulls the attainment figure down. It reflects who lives in a state, not how well its schools perform. The proof is in the number people usually mean when they say \"graduation rate.\" On the four-year cohort rate tracked by the [National Center for Education Statistics](https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=805), which follows a class of ninth-graders to see how many finish in four years, California graduated 87% and Texas 90% in 2021-22. Both met or beat the national average of 87%. The states at the bottom of the attainment table are not at the bottom of the schools' graduation table.\n\nThe regional pattern that the map seems to suggest is real but modest. Southern states average 87.9% completion, while the Midwest averages 91.5%. That is a gap of under 4 points, not the chasm the color shading implies. The states at the very top, Montana, Wyoming, Vermont, Minnesota, are rural and demographically homogeneous, with few foreign-born residents, so almost their entire adult population was schooled domestically and counted as a completer.\n```","order":3,"faqs":[]},{"tocTitle":"More Money, Same Diplomas","contentTitle":"More Money, Same Diplomas","content":"```\nIt would be reasonable to assume that the states writing the biggest checks per student also get the most students to a diploma. The data barely supports it. Across all 50 states, reported per-pupil spending explains only about **9%** of the variation in completion. The link is so faint that it nearly disappears under statistical scrutiny.\n\nThe spending leaders make the point. Per the NCES, total per-pupil expenditures were [highest in the District of Columbia and New York](https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmb/public-school-expenditures), at $37,835 and $32,184. Both are well-funded systems by any standard, yet neither tops the completion ranking, and several of the leanest-spending states finish near the top of it. The states that get the most adults to a diploma are not the ones that spend the most to do it.\n\n{{scatter:0,3|xzero|yzero|title=Spending More Per Student Does Not Buy More Diplomas|subtitle=Across all 50 states, reported per-pupil K-12 spending barely tracks high school completion.}}\n\nOne caveat belongs here. The per-pupil dollar figures in this dataset arrive without a listed source, so they are best read as reported spending for relative comparison rather than precise accounting. Even granting that, the shape of the relationship holds: the cloud of states scatters almost flat, and the money a state spends tells you very little about how many of its residents hold a diploma.\n```","order":4,"faqs":[]}],"metrics":[{"name":"High School Completion Rate","shortName":"High School Completion Rate","context":"% of population that successfully completes grades 9-12 secondary education.","type":"Choropleth","inverted":false,"mapColorScheme":"blueRed","mapInterpolation":"linear","colorOverwrite":"","summary":"average","measurement":{"id":"recmEHiSLgGFVCmIH","name":"Percentage","symbol":"%","showMap":true,"showText":true},"dataset":[{"id":"reckVJ9nNZpYbnHBI","year":null,"sources":[{"name":"Educational Attainment","link":"https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2022.S1501","lastUpdated":null,"organization":{"name":"U.S. Census Bureau","url":"https://www.census.gov"}}],"summary":{"label":"National 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