freedomrankings.comEducation Choice
Arizona leads all 50 states for Education Choice with a score of 9.7/10, followed by New Hampshire and Florida. Hawaii ranks last. Each state is scored 0–10 on Education Choice from established, annually-updated third-party indexes.
Score reflects vouchers, education savings accounts (ESAs), tax-credit scholarships, charter access, and homeschool freedom. Greener = stronger; select any state for its full breakdown.
School Choice by State: ESAs, Vouchers & Universal Choice
In 2021 no state let every family take public education dollars elsewhere. By 2026, nineteen do - the fastest reversal in American education policy in a generation.
Homeschool Laws by State: Notice, Testing & Requirements
Homeschooling is legal in all 50 states. What you must file, teach, and prove is not - ten states ask for nothing, a handful want test scores and home visits.
Arizona ranks #1 for education choice, scoring 9.7/10 — usually a state with a universal or near-universal ESA program that lets education funding follow the child. The full ranking is above.
A growing group of states have enacted universal or near-universal ESA/voucher programs open to all or most families. They lead this ranking; states that limit choice to a single assigned district school fall to the bottom.
Hawaii ranks lowest on education choice, reflecting few or no private-choice programs and limited charter or homeschool flexibility.
The education-choice score draws on EdChoice’s ABCs of School Choice and related sources, scoring program availability, eligibility, and funding. See the methodology page for details.