LOS ANGELES – Several cities in California have low rankings for education, and one city in particular ranked the least-educated city in the entire U.S., according to a new WalletHub study.
The personal finance website ranked the most and least educated cities in the U.S. and determined that California and Texas ranked as the nation’s least educated cities.
Multiple cities in both states were ranked in the top 20 of least educated cities, including Visalia, California, Bakersfield, California, Brownsville-Harlingen, Texas, and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas.
Here’s how California ranked among various metrics used in the study:
Quality & Safety of Schools in California (1=Best; 25=Avg.):
- Overall Rank: 30th
- 40th – Math Test Scores
- 37th – Reading Test Scores
- 50th – Pupil-Teacher Ratio
- 26th – Median SAT Score
- 1st – Median ACT Score
- 19th – % of Licensed/Certified Public K–12 Teachers
- 22nd – Dropout Rate
- 39th – Bullying Incidence Rate
- 2nd – % of Threatened/Injured High School Students
- 1st – Existence of Digital Learning Plan
Here’s the full list of this year’s least-educated cities:
Top 20 least-educated cities in the U.S. for 2025
- Visalia, California
- Brownsville-Harlingen, Texas
- McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas
- Bakersfield, California
- Modesto, California
- Fresno, California
- Stockton, California
- Salinas, California
- Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, North Carolina
- Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas
- Corpus Christi, Texas
- Ocala, Florida
- Riverside-San Bernadino-Ontario, California
- Lakeland-Winterhaven, Florida
- Reading, Pennsylvania
- Huntington-Ashland, West Virginia-Kentucky-Ohio
- Lafayette, Louisiana
- Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, Ohio-Pennsylvania
- El Paso, Texas
- Rockford, Illinois
From Deinstitutionalized to DEI...
Where do you think all the unintelligent or mentally challenged teachers originated from?
Many come from within our own borders, while others were brought in by the Democrats to influence our children and shape them into Democratic voters.
Its known as Deinstitutionalization in the United States
Comonly known as D.E.I.
Meanwhile the teachers and educators are moving to Washington State at an alarming rate to dumb down our state also
Why you should care:
WalletHub released a new study about the least and most educated cities across the country and their rankings were created by comparing the 150 largest metropolitan statistical areas across 11 key categories, including “Educational Attainment” and “Quality of Education & Attainment Gap.” Researchers assessed those categories and graded them on a 100-point scale with 100 representing a perfect score.
The team also used data that centered on the share of Americans 25 years old and older with a bachelor’s degree or higher to the quality of the public-school system to the gender education gap. Rankings were also created using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, GreatSchools.org, GreatSchools.org-Education Equality Index, Yelp and WalletHub research.
