Kindergarten vaccination and exemptions
State reports of estimated vaccination coverage and exemption rates among children entering kindergarten, collected by CDC's School Vaccination Assessment Program.
Figures
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vaccination Coverage and Exemptions among Kindergartners. Data period 2025–2026. Published .
| Measure | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten enrollment surveyed2025–2026 | 21,728 | 2025–2026 |
Pages built on this dataset
Publisher
- Organization
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Publisher’s dataset
- Vaccination Coverage and Exemptions among Kindergartners
- File or API used
- https://data.cdc.gov/resource/ijqb-a7ye.json
- Methodology
- https://www.cdc.gov/schoolvaxview/about/
Coverage
- Geography
- States, the District of Columbia and the nation
- Time coverage
- 2009-2010 to 2025-2026
- Update frequency
- Annual, by school year
- Published
- September 9, 2026
- Retrieved
- September 25, 2026
- License of the records
- Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
- Rows
- 10,122 observations, 2009-2025
Measures
| Measure | What it measures | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten vaccine exemption rate | Share of kindergartners with an exemption from one or more required vaccines. | percent |
| Kindergartners with a vaccine exemption | Number of kindergartners with an exemption from one or more required vaccines. | count |
| Kindergarten vaccination coverage | Share of kindergartners who have received a required vaccine, by vaccine. | percent |
| Kindergarten enrollment surveyed | Number of children enrolled in kindergarten covered by that year's state vaccination report. | people |
Caveats
- Each figure is a state's own report for that school year; states use different survey methods (a full census of kindergartners, or a sample) and a change from one year to the next can partly reflect a change in method.
- A state that did not require a vaccine, or did not report a figure, has no value for that school year rather than a coverage rate.
- One coverage figure, MMR (PAC), is CDC's modeled Potentially Achievable Coverage: the MMR coverage rate that would result if every kindergartner without a documented vaccine exemption were up to date, not a directly measured coverage rate like the others.
- Any Exemption is not always the sum of Medical Exemption and Non-Medical Exemption: CDC counts a child with at least one exemption once under Any Exemption, and in a few states exemption counts are reported per vaccine rather than per child, which can inflate the reported number of exemptions.
How to cite
Understand Idaho, “Vaccination Coverage and Exemptions among Kindergartners”, compiled from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vaccination Coverage and Exemptions among Kindergartners. Retrieved September 25, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/cdc-schoolvaxview/.
Cite Centers for Disease Control and Prevention directly for the figures themselves.
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