US Counties With the Lowest Learning Rates

2,043 US counties ranked by learning rate, from lowest to highest. First are Monroe County, KY (-0.187), Richmond city, VA (-0.147) and Greene County, AL (-0.13). The middle one of the 2,043 has -0.0165.

What this measures

How much children improve each school year, in grade levels, where 0 is the national average pace. This is the part that happens in school, and it behaves quite differently from the score level. Source: Stanford Education Data Archive.

For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.

The 100 lowest counties

More on learning rate

• US Counties With the Highest Learning Rates
• Learning rate by US county: map by year and what it goes with

A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.