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Florida's Below-80 to Above-90 Graduation-Rate Group Grew From Eight Districts to 17
Correction: The earlier version stopped at the 2024 data. This version includes the 2025 release, which expands the endpoint group from eight districts to 17 and updates every chart and cohort count.
Pasco County Went From Average to Exceptional: 79.1% to 95.5% in Eight Years
Correction (2026-07-23): An earlier version of this article said Pasco's English learner graduation rate was above the statewide overall average. At 89.6 percent, it sits 0.1 point below the statewide...
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...
Florida Lost One in Eight Kindergartners
Correction (2026-03-11): The total of the 10 largest district kindergarten declines has been corrected from 18,086 to 17,088.
Pasco's 10-Year Growth Streak Ends
For a decade, Pasco County was Florida's enrollment machine. From 2016 through 2025, the district north of Tampa added students every single year, gaining 17,366 in total, a 25.1% increase. Only one o...
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 ...
White-Majority Districts Are Disappearing Across Florida
In 2015, 30 of Florida's 74 school districts enrolled more students of color than white students. That was two out of five. By 2025, the count had climbed to 39 of 77, crossing the 50% mark for the fi...
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...