Chart description: The chart indicates which states had the largest number of children enrolled in pre-kindergarten programs in 2019. The top 3 included California, Texas and Florida, of which California had the highest at roughly 250,000. The chart also shows the states with the lowest enrolment such as Alaska, Mississippi and Rhode Island, among others. The total number of children enrolled nationally is also included under 'United States'. As this encompassed all the other states, it showed the highest at >1.5 million.

Chart data: State Number of children enrolled United States * 1616589 California 245012 Texas 238921 Florida 173633 New York 126302 Illinois 80958 Georgia 80493 New Jersey 52553 Wisconsin 49446 Pennsylvania 42867 Oklahoma 42192 Michigan 37140 Massachusetts 33433 Maryland 31780 North Carolina 29509 South Carolina 28421 Iowa 27772 Colorado 21493 Kentucky 21351 Arkansas 19327 Louisiana 18841 Alabama 18756 Tennessee 17879 Ohio 17870 Virginia 17657 Connecticut 14858 District of Columbia 13597 Washington 13491 Nebraska 13258 West Virginia 13063 New Mexico 11251 Kansas 11060 Oregon 9360 Vermont 8648 Minnesota 8237 Maine 5805 Missouri 5723 Arizona 5410 Nevada 2139 Mississippi 1954 Alaska 1304 Rhode Island 1080 North Dakota 1062 Delaware 845 Hawaii 415 Montana 271 Guam 72

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