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Collier County Defies Florida's Attendance Crisis: 14 Points Below the State Average
Every year the Florida Department of Education publishes chronic absenteeism data, Collier County appears in the same place: below the state average. Not by a little. By a lot, and by a growing margin...
Same Size, Different Worlds: Putnam and Walton Counties Have a 33-Point Absenteeism Gap
Putnam County and Walton County are both rural Florida districts with enrollment in the 10,000-to-13,000 range. Both sit outside major metro areas. Both have schools named after local landmarks and Fr...
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...
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.