Miami-Dade
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.
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...