States projected to have the most public high school students, fall 2018

More than 15.1 million students are expected to be enrolled in public high schools in fall 2018.

In its Digest of Education Statistics, 2016, the National Center for Education Statistics says that California and Texas lead the way in projected high school enrollment—they are the only states expected to have more than 1 million public high school students.

Here are the 10 states projected to have the most public school students in grades nine to 12 in fall 2018.