School Vaccination and Exemption Rates

Arizona Vaccination and Exemption Rates

Vaccine exemption rates for kindergarten and 6th grade are available at the county level in Arizona.

The rates are also available for public schools, charter schools, and private schools. Vaccine rates and exemption rates are available for childcare centers in Arizona too.

Arizona Immunization Program

California Vaccination and Exemption Rates

In addition to providing annual summary reports and data files about the vaccination status for kids in daycare, kindergarten, and 7th grade (going back to 2011, 2000, and 2011 respectively), you can also see the rate of children who are up to date on their vaccinations on a map:

• Child care map
• Kindergarten map
• 7th grade map

How many kids in your child's daycare or school are up to date on their vaccines?

After a measles outbreak at Disneyland, California became one of the few states to ban both personal belief and religious exemptions in 2015.However, medical exemptions became prevalent enough that many schools began falling under the recommended 95% vaccination rate. In 2019, two more bills were passed to allow the State of California Department of Public Health to review suspicious medical exemptions.

Colorado Vaccination and Exemption Rates

In Colorado, schools have to make their vaccination rates and vaccine exemption rates publicly available.

That's important, because Colorado has one of the highest rates of personal belief vaccine exemptions in the United States.

However, since the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment isn't actually collecting, analyzing, publishing, or reporting on these vaccination or exemption rates, it does make it a little harder to find.

Chalkbeat Coloradohas posted vaccination rates and vaccine exemption rates for over 1,000 schools in 20 of Colorado's largest school districts, including Colorado Springs and the Denver Public Schools.

Georgia Vaccination and Exemption Rates

Parents used to be able to search by school name or county on the Georgia Department of Public Health website to find out the vaccination rate and vaccine exemption rate for each school in Georgia. While the Department of Public Health still tracks this information, itno longer sharesschool-level data, claiming that doing so could put individual students at risk of identification.

Illinois Vaccination and Exemption Rates

Illinois is another state without personal belief exemptions to vaccines, although they do allow religious exemptions and medical exemptions.

In states without personal belief exemptions, many parents seem to use thereligious exemptioninstead, even though very few religions are actually opposed to their members getting vaccinated.

Resources to check vaccination rates for all schools in Illinois include:

• Illinoismeasles immunization rate databasefor the 2013-14 school year
• Illinois Immunization School Survey Results

Massachusetts Vaccination and Exemption Rates

Parents in Massachusetts can look up vaccination rates and vaccine exemption rates for all public and private schools in their state.

The information is available from theMassachusetts Department of Public Health Immunization Program. Parents can look up data for preschool, kindergarten, grade 7, and college.

Michigan Vaccination and Exemption Rates

On theMichigan Department of Health and Human Serviceswebsite, you can view immunization data by kindergarten, seventh grade, or the county level. You can also look at exemption data for childcare centers and new arrivals to a particular school district.

Michigan also makes it fairly easy to see how many students across the state are getting each type of exemption: religious, personal, or medical. In 2019, roughly two-thirds of immunization waivers were assigned due to personal or philosophical objections.

Minnesota Vaccination and Exemption Rates

Minnesota provides information on vaccination rates and vaccine exemptions for kids in kindergarten and seventh grade.

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Being able to look at the school level is important.

Minnesota school immunization data

New York Vaccination and Exemption Rates

In some states, although school immunization data is collected and sent to the state health department, it isn't always available to the public.

In New York, theDaily Intelligencerrequested and published data forNew York City private schoolsfor the 2012-13 school year.

Although New York did not (and still doesn't) allow personal belief vaccine exemptions, at least 125 private schools in New York City had vaccination rates below 90%. Even more shocking, 37 schools had vaccination rates below 70% and 9 schools had rates between 18% and 42%. The report caused extensive criticism of these schools from the public.

New York City Public Radio has aFind Your School's Vaccination Ratetool that lists the 2014-2015 school year vaccination rates across New York State.

Texas Vaccination and Exemption Rates

TheTexas Department of State Health Servicesmakes vaccination and vaccine exemption rates available to the public at the district level. Accredited private schools are also required to submit reports on vaccination and vaccine exemption rates. In the 2018-2019 school year:

• 2.17% of kindergarteners had a conscientious objection on file for at least one vaccine.
• 1.37% of 7th graders had a conscientious objection on file.
• Private schools had much higher conscientious exemption rates (3.17%) than public schools (1.13%).

Vermont Vaccination and Exemption Rates

Vermont provides both vaccination rates and exemption rates for public and private schools each year. Individuals can get data on child care centers, kindergarten through 12th grade, and colleges and universities. In the 2019-2020 school year:

• 3.5% of kindergarteners had religious exemptions. (The personal belief exemption was eliminated in 2016.)
• Religious exemptions were over three times higher in independent/private schools (9.7%) than public schools (3.1%).

Vermont Vaccination Coverage Data

Washington Vaccination and Exemption Rates

Washington state provides school immunization and exemption rates, including county-level rates, school district-level rates, and rates for individual schools. The dashboards include both graphs and maps.

Washington School Immunization Dashboards

TheSeattle Timesdid a report in 2019 onWashington vaccine exemption ratesusing data from the 2017-18 school year. Readers can pick a city and compare MMR vaccine exemption rates for every school in the area.

Other State Vaccination and Exemption Rates

AUSA Todayreport from 2015 allows you to search forelementary school immunization ratesand exemption for schools in Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.