Miami-Dade
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.
Miami-Dade Lost 35,865 Students in Nine Years
Miami-Dade enrolled 321,392 students in 2025-26. Nine years earlier, the figure was 357,257. The 35,865-student gap, a 10.0% decline, would fill every seat in a mid-sized Florida school district. What...