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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.
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.
Pasco's 10-Year Growth Streak Ends
For a decade, Pasco County was Florida's enrollment machine. From 2016 through 2025, the district north of Tampa added students every single year, gaining 17,366 in total, a 25.1% increase. Only one o...
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.