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.
| State | Florida |
|---|---|
| Students enrolled, statewide | 2856349 |
| Summed over the schools covered here | 2856349 |
| Schools in that sum | 3992 |
| Schools in the state | 3992 |
| Median school enrollment | 605 |
| Largest single school | 5880 |
| Average school enrollmentcalculated | 716enrollment_covered / schools_with_published_enrollment |
| Share of the state's schools in that sumcalculated | 100.0%schools_with_published_enrollment / number_of_schools |
The twelve largest districts by enrollment
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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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