St. Johns
Collier County Defies Florida's Attendance Crisis: 14 Points Below the State Average
> Correction (September 30, 2026): An earlier version of this article said that among 73 Florida districts with comparable data, only Hendry County had a chronic absenteeism rate below its pre-COVID l...
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...
Duval County Hits All-Time High: 45% of Jacksonville Students Chronically Absent
Correction (April 12, 2026): An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Duval's 63,802 chronically absent students would constitute the fourth-largest school district in Florida and na...
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.
32 Florida Districts Hit Rock Bottom in 2026
Six districts set enrollment records in 2025-26. Thirty-two set the other kind.
St. Johns: Florida's Last Growing Giant
St. Johns County added 151 students in 2025-26. That number would barely fill a single school bus. But in a state where every other top-20 district lost enrollment in 2026, it was enough to make St. J...
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.