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Florida's Unfinished Recovery: 46 Districts Still Below Pre-Pandemic Enrollment
Correction (2026-03-11): An earlier version of this article stated that 2026 enrollment was 1,344 students below the 2021 COVID trough. It is actually 1,344 students above the trough. The loss figure ...
32 Florida Districts Hit Rock Bottom in 2026
Six districts set enrollment records this year. Thirty-two set the other kind.
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.