What are the measles vaccination rates in your district? See how your school compares
Look up the measles vaccination rate among kindergartners at your school and how it has changed over the last 10 years.
Declining vaccination rates among kindergartners in Pennsylvania over the last five years have increased the threat of a measles outbreak.
As of last school year, only 17 of 67 counties in Pennsylvania reported vaccination levels among kindergartners sufficient to provide protection against the highly contagious virus.
In Philadelphia, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery, and Bucks Counties, over 200 schools had kindergarten vaccination levels below 95% — the threshold that epidemiologists say is needed to prevent community spread of the virus.
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The Inquirer analyzed kindergarten vaccination data for 1,800 schools to pinpoint the communities, neighborhoods, and individual schools where children are most vulnerable. An in-depth look at trends at schools across the region had not been widely accessible to the public.
Kindergarten vaccination rates are considered a bellwether for a community’s attitudes toward vaccination, as parents are deciding whether to get the shots required by law to attend school.
Search the table below to see what the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination rate among kindergartners is like at your school and how it has changed over the last 10 years.
The data were obtained from the state health department through a public records request. It did not include 640 schools with fewer than 20 kindergarten students, which the state withheld citing privacy concerns. An additional 100 schools did not report vaccine data at all.
