NGPF's 2021 State of Financial Education Report
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11 ++ 2020-2021 $$ xx %% NGPF’s 2021 State of Financial == Education Report ¢¢ Who Has Access to Financial Education in America Today? In the 2020-2021 school year, nearly 7 out of 10 students across U.S. high schools had access to a standalone Personal Finance course. 2.4M (1 in 5 U.S. high school students) were guaranteed to take the course prior to graduation. GOLD STANDARD GOLD STANDARD (NATIONWIDE) (OUTSIDE GUARANTEE STATES)* In public U.S. high schools, In public U.S. high schools, 1 IN 5 1 IN 9 $$ students were guaranteed to take a students were guaranteed to take a W-4 standalone Personal Finance course standalone Personal Finance course W-4 prior to graduation. prior to graduation. STATE POLICY IMPACTS NATIONWIDE ACCESS (GOLD + SILVER STANDARD) Currently, In public U.S. high schools, = 7 IN = 7 10 states have or are implementing statewide guarantees for a standalone students have access to or are ¢ guaranteed to take a standalone ¢ Personal Finance course for all high school students. North Carolina and Mississippi Personal Finance course prior are currently implementing. to graduation. How states are guaranteeing Personal Finance for their students: In 2018, the Mississippi Department of Education Signed in 2018, North Carolina’s legislation echoes created a 1-year College & Career Readiness (CCR) neighboring state Virginia’s, by which all students take Course for the entering freshman class of the one semester of Economics and one semester of 2018-2019 school year. The course combines Personal Finance. All North Carolina high school one semester of career exploration and college students, beginning with the graduating class of 2024, transition preparation with one semester of will take a 1-year Economics and Personal Finance Personal Finance. The Class of 2022 will be the (EPF) course within the social studies department. first graduating class with the CCR course on all Approximately 40% of all North Carolina public high of their transcripts. schools added the EPF course to their course catalogs in 2020-2021, with the remainder expected to do so during the 2021-2022 school year. 2 NGPF’s 2021 State of Financial Education Report Who Has Access to Financial Education in America Today? While 1 in 9 students outside Guarantee States will take a standalone Personal Finance course prior to graduation, this number dips significantly among students in schools with 75%+ Black and Brown students or 75%+ Free and Reduced Lunch eligibility. Students across the country are not getting equitable access to Personal Finance education. OUTSIDE GUARANTEE STATES RACIAL EQUITY SOCIO-ECONOMIC EQUITY In schools with 75%+ Black and In schools with 75%+ Free and ++ Brown student population, only Reduced Lunch eligibility, only 401k401k 1 IN 14 1 IN 13 students were guaranteed to take a students were guaranteed to take a standalone Personal Finance course standalone Personal Finance course prior to graduation. prior to graduation. EQUITY BY COMMUNITY SETTING Gold Standard Access by School Locale (Outside Guarantee States): 17.4% 12.1% 8.6% of high school students in of high school students in of high school students rural locales are guaranteed suburb + town locales are in city locales are guaranteed % to take a standalone Personal FAFSAFAFSA% guaranteed to take a stand- to take a standalone Finance course. alone Personal Finance course. Personal Finance course. Impact of individual large districts on access for students of color The racial equity data above (1 in 14) includes, among others, one particularly large district (Prince George’s County Schools, Maryland) that committed in 2020 to all its students taking Personal Finance before graduation. Without that district’s representation as Gold Standard in the dataset, the proportion of students attending schools with greater than 75% Black and Brown students would be 1 in 20. This highlights the outsized impact that large districts can have on closing the gaps in equity identified above. 3 NGPF’s 2021 State of Financial Education Report U.S. Public High School Students with Access to the Gold Standard In the 2020-2021 school year, 20.6% of U.S. high school students attended schools in which ALL students took at least one semester-long course solely dedicated to Personal Finance. Outside the Guarantee States, this percentage was 11.9%. WA ME 15.1% 4.4% ND MT VT 13.2% 13.1% 6.1% MN NH OR 5.7% 9.2% NY WI MA 6.9% SD 34% MI 2% 5.1% ID 25.6% 0.9% WY 1.5% RI CT 32% PA 15% IA NJ 18.3% NE 14.9% OH 44% 67.5% DE 49.7% IN NV IL 28% 3.1% 11.2% 4.6% UT WV DC 13.7% VA 99.6% CO 3.5% 0% KS MO KY 98.9% MD CA 4.7% 33.7% 99.9% 3.6% 26.7% 0.8% NC TN 49% 99.4% OK SC AZ AR NM 43.1% 0.6% 38.8% 4.3% 0.3% GA AL MS 0.4% 0% 97.3% TX AK LA 0.2% 2.2% 2.3% HI 0% FL 0.8% GUARANTEE STATE TRANSITIONING TO GUARANTEE STATE 4 NGPF’s 2021 State of Financial Education Report U.S. Public High School Students with Access to the Silver OR Gold Standard In the 2020-2021 school year, 68.9% of U.S. high school students had access to at least one semester of Personal Finance as an elective or graduation requirement. WA ME 63.4% 64.3% ND VT MT 75.6% 61.1% 89.1% MN NH OR 80% 83.4% NY WI MA 38.4% SD ID 93% MI 46.7% 73.5% 97.6% RI 61% WY 74.7% CT 92.7% PA 77.9% NJ 85.4% IA 82.7% NE 92.7% 82.3% OH DE 81.9% IN NV IL 69.3% 35.7% 81.6% 71% UT 58.1% WV DC VA 99.6% CO 79.8% 5.9% KS MO KY 99.2% MD CA 59.7% 87.1% 99.9% 66.8% 91.4% 25.2% NC TN 80.5% 99.4% OK SC AZ AR NM 74.9% 68.9% 46.6% 75.8% 83.4% AL GA MS 62% 67.6% 97.8% TX AK LA 87.3% 69.6% 73.1% HI 0% FL 39.2% GUARANTEE STATE TRANSITIONING TO GUARANTEE STATE 5 NGPF’s 2021 State of Financial Education Report Gold, Silver, and Bronze Schools Standards by State ALABAMA ALASKA ARIZONA ARKANSAS CALIFORNIA COLORADO CONNECTICUT DELAWARE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FLORIDA GEORGIA G 97.3% G 0.2% G 0.6% G 38.8% G 0.8% G 4.7% G 18.3% G 3.1% G 0% G 0.8% G 0.4% S 0.4% S 69.4% S 46% S 37% S 24.4% S 55.1% S 67.1% S 32.6% S 5.9% S 38.5% S 61.6% B 1.7% B 30.4% B 51.2% B 20.5% B 53.8% B 39.1% B 13.3% B 59.2% B 57.6% B 56.8% B 31.4% N 0.6% N 0% N 2.1% N 3.7% N 21.1% N 1.1% N 1.3% N 5.1% N 36.5% N 4% N 6.6% HAWAII IDAHO ILLINOIS INDIANA IOWA KANSAS KENTUCKY LOUISIANA MAINE MARYLAND MASSACHUSETTS G 0% G 0.9% G 13.7% G 11.2% G 67.5% G 33.7% G 3.6% G 2.3% G 15.1% G 26.7% G 5.1% S 0% S 60.1% S 44.5% S 70.4% S 14.8% S 53.4% S 63.2% S 70.7% S 48.3% S 64.6% S 68.4% B 66.7% B 33.1% B 37.1% B 12.3% B 17.7% B 12.9% B 29% B 24.5% B 30.2% B 7.5% B 19.4% N 33.3% N 5.9% N 4.8% N 6.1% N 0% N 0% N 4.2% N 2.4% N 6.3% N 1.2% N 7.1% MICHIGAN MINNESOTA MISSISSIPPI MISSOURI MONTANA NEBRASKA NEVADA NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW JERSEY NEW YORK NEW MEXICO G 1.5% G 5.7% G 0% G 99.9% G 6.1% G 49.7% G 4.6% G 9.2% G 44% G 2% G 0.3% S 73.2% S 74.3% S 67.6% S 0% S 83% S 32.2% S 66.4% S 74.2% S 48.7% S 44.7% S 83% B 23.4% B 17.1% B 29.4% B 0.1% B 9.1% B 18.1% B 17% B 14.3% B 6.6% B 50.5% B 7.3% N 1.8% N 3% N 3% N 0% N 1.8% N 0% N 12% N 2.3% N 0.7% N 2.8% N 9.3% NORTH DAKOTA NORTH CAROLINA OHIO OKLAHOMA OREGON PENNSYLVANIA RHODE ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH DAKOTA TENNESSEE TEXAS G 13.2% G 49% G 28% G 43.1% G 6.9% G 14.9% G 15% G 4.3% G 25.6% G 99.4% G 2.2% S 62.4% S 31.5% S 41.3% S 31.7% S 31.5% S 67.8% S 77.6% S 64.6% S 71.9% S 0% S 85.2% B 23.7% B 16.4% B 29.1% B 22.9% B 38.5% B 15.1% B 6% B 18% B 1.1% B 0.3% B 10.2% N 0.8% N 3.1% N 1.5% N 2.3% N 23% N 2.2% N 1.3% N 13.2% N 0.2% N 0.3% N 2.5% G (GOLD) Students guaranteed at least one semester of standalone Personal Finance course UTAH VERMONT VIRGINA WASHINGTON WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN WYOMING S (SILVER) Students have access to at least one semester Personal Finance G 99.6% G 13.1% G 98.9% G 4.4% G 3.5% G 34% G 32% course as an elective S 0% S 48% S 0.4% S 59.9% S 76.4% S 59% S 46% B (BRONZE) Students have access to Personal Finance education B 0.4% B 35.6% B 0.4% B 25.6% B 18.7% B 6.5% B 15% embedded in another course N 0% N 3.3% N 0.4% N 10.1% N 1.5% N 0.5% N 7% N (NO OFFER) Students have no access to Personal Finance education 6 NGPF’s 2021 State of Financial Education Report State Rankings: Gold Standard Access to Personal Finance Courses RANK STATE GOLD STANDARD RANKING (BY STUDENTS) RANK STATE GOLD STANDARD RANKING (BY STUDENTS) 1 MISSOURI* 99.9% 27 OREGON 6.9% 2 UTAH* 99.6% 28 MONTANA 6.1% 3 TENNESSEE* 99.4% 29 MINNESOTA 5.7% 4 VIRGINIA* 98.9% 30 MASSACHUSETTS 5.1% 5 ALABAMA* 97.3% 31 COLORADO 4.7% 6 IOWA 67.5% 32 NEVADA 4.6% 7 NEBRASKA 49.7% 33 WASHINGTON 4.4% 8 NORTH CAROLINA** 49% 34 SOUTH CAROLINA 4.3% 9 NEW JERSEY 44% 35 KENTUCKY 3.6% 1o OKLAHOMA 43.1% 36 WEST VIRGINIA 3.5% 11 ARKANSAS 38.8% 37 DELAWARE 3.1% 12 WISCONSIN 34% 38 LOUISIANA 2.3% 13 KANSAS 33.7% 39 TEXAS 2.2% 14 WYOMING 32% 40 NEW YORK 2% 15 OHIO 28% 41 MICHIGAN 1.5% 16 MARYLAND 26.7% 42 IDAHO 0.9% 17 SOUTH DAKOTA 25.6% 43 FLORIDA 0.8% 18 CONNECTICUT 18.3% 44 CALIFORNIA 0.8% 19 MAINE 15.1% 45 ARIZONA 0.6% 20 RHODE ISLAND 15% 46 GEORGIA 0.4% 21 PENNSYLVANIA 14.9% 47 NEW MEXICO 0.3% 22 ILLINOIS 13.7% 48 ALASKA 0.2% 23 NORTH DAKOTA 13.2% 49 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 0% 24 VERMONT 13.1% 50 HAWAII 0% 25 INDIANA 11.2% 51 MISSISSIPPI** 0% 26 NEW HAMPSHIRE 9.2% *Guarantee States ** Transitioning to Guarantee State 7 NGPF’s 2021 State of Financial Education Report Top 5: States with top Gold Standard Growth from SY 2019-2020 to SY 2020-2021 1.8% 38.8% ARKANSAS 14.1% 49% NORTH CAROLINA* 36.6% 67.5% IOWA 2.4% 26.7% MARYLAND 3.9% 15% RHODE ISLAND Gold Standard Students 2019-2020 2020-2021 * Transitioning to Guarantee State 8 NGPF’s 2021 State of Financial Education Report Top 5: States with top Gold + Silver Standard Growth from SY 2019-2020 to SY 2020-2021 16.7% 39.2% FLORIDA 42.7% 61% IDAHO 43.9% 61.1% VERMONT 52.6% 62% GEORGIA 29.6% 38.4% OREGON Silver + Gold (Access) Standard Students 2019-2020 2020-2021 9 NGPF’s 2021 State of Financial Education Report Paths to Mission: 2025 and Mission: 2030 2020-2021 was the first school year during which more students attended Gold Standard schools outside the current Guarantee States than in them.