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States projected to have the most students graduating from public high schools, 2025-26

Oct. 24, 2017
States projected to have the most students graduating from public high schools, 2025-26

The National Center for Education Statistics projects that in the 2025-26 school year, 3,371,680 students will graduate from public high schools in the United States.

That is 6.4 percent more graduates than the 3,169,257 students who graduated in 2012-13, according to the NCES's Projection of Education Statistics to 2025.

California, with more than 417,000 projected high school graduates in 2025-26, leads the list of states with the highest number of projected graduates.

Here are the 10 states projected to have the most graduates.

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