National Kindergarten Day was April 21, which was the birthday (in 1782) of Friedrich Wilhelm August Frobel, credited with establishing the first kindergarten—in 1837 in Germany.
In 2017, the U.S. Census Bureau says, an estimated 4,001,570 children were attending kindergarten in the United States.
More than 13 percent of those students were in California. It had the most kindergarten students—526,390.
Here are the 10 states that had the most kindergarten students in 2017.
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Mike Kennedy
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Mike Kennedy has been writing about education for American School & University since 1999. He also has reported on schools and other topics for The Chicago Tribune, The Kansas City Star, The Kansas City Times and City News Bureau of Chicago. He is a graduate of Michigan State University.