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Counties With the Best School Ratings in the United States (2026)

Falls Church has the highest school ratings of any county in the United States, at 9.1, followed by Wise and Lexington. Source: NCES EDFacts via Urban Institute, 2024-25. The full ranking of the top 25 counties is below.

Data updated 2024 - Source: NCES EDFacts via Urban Institute

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Best counties for school ratings in the United States

Top 25 of 3144 counties with data.

Ranked by school district rating (NCES EDFacts via Urban Institute, 2024-25), highest first.

Best counties for school ratings in the United States
RankCountyValue
1Falls Church9.1
2Wise9.0
3Lexington8.9
4Dallas8.9
5Lyon8.8
6Delaware8.8
7O'Brien8.8
8York8.8
9Winneshiek8.8
10Botetourt8.8
11Mitchell8.7
12Bremer8.7
13Taylor8.7
14Story8.7
15Hancock8.7
16Grundy8.7
17Plymouth8.6
18Winnebago8.6
19Madison8.6
20Humboldt8.6
21Roanoke8.5
22Delaware8.5
23Putnam8.5
24Mills8.5
25Washington8.5

How this ranking works

This page ranks every US county by school district rating, sorted so the best places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For school ratings, a higher value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the highest. Want to weigh school ratings against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of school district rating.

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