Wednesday, April 15, 2026

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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...