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Nearly Half of Florida's Districts Now Graduate 90% — Up From Less Than 10% Eight Years Ago
In 2016, just six of Florida's 68 county districts had graduation rates at or above 90 percent. By 2024, that number had nearly quintupled to 29, meaning 42.6 percent of districts now meet a threshold...
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...