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Leon County, Home of the State Capital, Is the Only Florida District at an All-Time Low
Of Florida's 67 county school districts, exactly one is currently at its lowest graduation rate ever recorded. That distinction belongs to Leon County, home to Tallahassee, the state capital, Florida ...
Nearly Half of Florida's Districts Now Graduate 90% — Up From Less Than 10% Eight Years Ago
Correction (2026-07-23): An earlier version of this article said no district had graduated below 70 percent of its students in any year from 2020 through 2024. In 2023, Jefferson County graduated 66.7...
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...