CENTRAL WISCONSIN (WAOW) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new report on kindergarten vaccinations and Wisconsin parents opt out of vaccinations at a higher than average rate.

The vaccine needed before entering kindergarten are DTaP, Polio and chickenpox.

Most states have about two percent of kindergarteners who go without, but nearly five percent do in Wisconsin.

Local health experts said that’s roughly 95 percent of kindergarteners who are getting the vaccinations.

“It’s an average so you have to remember that when you look at those numbers, that locally, really, we’re doing quite well,” Becky Mroczenski, Commincable Disease Manager at the Marathon Co. Health Department said.

Experts said the main reasons parents opt out of the vaccines are for personal and religious reasons.