Key takeaways:

MMR coverage was 92.5% and DTaP coverage was 92.1% during the 2024-2025 school year.

Seventeen states reported exemption rates greater than 5%, three more than the previous year.

Kindergarten vaccination coverage for measles and other infectious diseases declined in the United States again last school year, according to the CDC.

Coverage for MMR and DTaP vaccines fell two-tenths of a percentage point each from 92.7% and 92.3%, respectively, during the 2023-2024 school year to 92.5% and 92.1% for the 2024-2025 school year, the CDC reported. The rates also declined during the previous year.

Data derived from CDC .

Although medical exemptions have remained steady at 0.2% since 2020, nonmedical exemptions rose from 3.1% to 3.4%. Additionally, the number of states with e

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