The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has released the student vaccination rates for the 2024-2025 school year.
In the five-page report, the department noted that 86.4% of all students across the state met the minimum vaccination requirements, which is a 2.8% decrease from the previous school year.
It is also down significantly from the 2004-2005 school year, when 93.7% of students met the minimum requirements.
State Health Officer Paula Tran voiced her concern, saying, “In public health, we know that 95% of people in a community need to be vaccinated against measles in order to prevent an outbreak, which is why it’s so important to get children the vaccines they need on time.”
The full report can be found at DHS.Wisconsin.gov.
