Kindergarten vaccination rates 2024-25

Vaccination rates for children entering public kindergarten in the 2024-25 school year, the latest available, show more states failing to reach the 95% threshold considered adequate for "herd immunity" to protect unvaccinated people from diseases like measles. States allowing more exemptions for nonmedical reasons are seeing the biggest drops since 2018-19, before the pandemic.

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Stateline averaged vaccination rates and nonmedical exemption rates for each state from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Montana did not report because of a state law; West Virginia has delayed release of its statistics.

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