Every Florida public school and district, from the federal record — with district calendar dates read from each district's own feed.

How many students are in Florida public schools?

Florida public schools enrolled 2,856,349 students in 2023-24, over 74 of its 74 districts, as the federal state record has it. Summing the 3,992 individual schools this site covers gives 2,856,349, the same figure. Every school in the release published one, so the total covers the whole state corpus — which is not true of every state and is not true of every field on this site.

The figures, 2023-24

The total is a sum, not a separately published state figure, and the denominator is stated beside it so a reader can see what it covers. The median is the more useful number for a single school: the mean is pulled upward by a small number of very large schools.

StateFlorida
Students enrolled, statewide2856349
Summed over the schools covered here2856349
Schools in that sum3992
Schools in the state3992
Median school enrollment605
Largest single school5880
Average school enrollmentcalculated716enrollment_covered / schools_with_published_enrollment
Share of the state's schools in that sumcalculated100.0%schools_with_published_enrollment / number_of_schools

The twelve largest districts by enrollment

Other statewide answers

Questions

How many students are in Florida public schools?

2,856,349 in 2023-24, as the federal state record has it, over 74 of Florida's 74 districts. Summing the individual schools this site covers gives 2,856,349.

Why is the total a sum rather than a state figure?

Because it can then be checked. Every school page on this site carries the figure that went into it, and the number of schools the sum covers is stated above, so the total is reproducible from the same public records.

What is a typical school size?

The median Florida public school enrolls 605 students. The average is 716, higher than the median because a few very large schools pull it up.

Method and sources

Every figure on this page is a census over the 2023-24 Common Core of Data, published by the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. NCES withholds an enrollment figure where publishing it could identify individual students. A withheld figure is not a zero, so the school is excluded from the total and the number of schools the total covers is published beside it. No figure here is imputed, and where a count excludes records the number excluded is on the page.

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