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Palm Beach: Florida's Largest District Beating the Chronic Absenteeism Average
In a state where the typical school district has roughly a third of its students chronically absent, Palm Beach County has managed to hold its rate to 23.4%. That number is not good — it means nearly ...
Florida's Below-80 to Above-90 Graduation-Rate Group Grew From Eight Districts to 17
Correction: The earlier version stopped at the 2024 data. This version includes the 2025 release, which expands the endpoint group from eight districts to 17 and updates every chart and cohort count.
Collier County Defies Florida's Attendance Crisis: 14 Points Below the State Average
> Correction (September 30, 2026): An earlier version of this article said that among 73 Florida districts with comparable data, only Hendry County had a chronic absenteeism rate below its pre-COVID l...
None of 73 Florida Districts Has Recovered to Pre-COVID Attendance Levels
> Correction (September 30, 2026): An earlier version of this article, headlined "Only 1 of 73 Florida Districts Has Recovered to Pre-COVID Attendance Levels," reported that Hendry County's chronic ab...
Duval County Hits All-Time High: 45% of Jacksonville Students Chronically Absent
Correction (April 12, 2026): An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Duval's 63,802 chronically absent students would constitute the fourth-largest school district in Florida and na...
Florida Lost One in Eight Kindergartners
Correction (2026-03-11): The total of the 10 largest district kindergarten declines has been corrected from 18,086 to 17,088.
Florida's Unfinished Recovery: 46 Districts Still Below Pre-Pandemic Enrollment
Correction (2026-03-11): An earlier version of this article stated that 2026 enrollment was 1,344 students below the 2021 COVID trough. It is actually 1,344 students above the trough. The loss figure ...
32 Florida Districts Hit Rock Bottom in 2026
Six districts set enrollment records in 2025-26. Thirty-two set the other kind.
Nearly 9 in 10 Florida Districts Lost Students in 2026
In a typical year before the pandemic, roughly one in three Florida school districts lost students. In 2021, COVID pushed that figure above 90%. That breadth was supposed to be a crisis-year anomaly.
Pinellas: 11 Years of Loss and No Floor in Sight
The worst year in Pinellas County's enrollment decline was supposed to be 2021, when the pandemic ripped 3,743 students out of the district in a single year. It wasn't. In 2026, Pinellas lost 4,234 st...