The Florida education system consists of public and private schools in

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, including the

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(SUSF), the Florida College System (FCS), the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida (ICUF) and other private institutions, and also secondary and primary schools as well as

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s. Florida has charter schools and programs for homeschooling. It also has a school choice program.

Overview

Florida's public primary and secondary schools are administered by the

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(FLDOE). FLDOE also has authority over the Florida College System. The State University System is under the authority of the

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. As mandated by the

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, Article IX, section 4, Florida has 67

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s, one for each county. All are separate from

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. School districts

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property within their jurisdictions to support their budgets. Florida has hundreds of

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s of all types. The FLDOE has no authority over private school operations. Private schools may or may not be accredited, and achievement tests are not required for private school graduating seniors. Many private schools obtain accreditation and perform achievement tests to show parents the school's interest in educational performance. In the 2021-2022 school year, about 152,000 students in Florida were

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. That number compares to about 55,000 homeschooled students in 2008 and 89,000 in 2017-2018. According to the FLDOE, homeschooling parents must maintain "a portfolio of activities, records and materials showing student work" for two years; the parents must submit this portfolio to officials of their local school district if required in writing. Homeschooling students are also required to undergo, each year, one of five academic evaluation options. The parents must submit the results of the evaluation to their local school district. In August 2023, restrictions were placed on the teaching of Shakespearean plays and literature by Florida teachers in order to comply with state law.

Higher education

There are 12 public universities that comprise the

. In addition the Florida College System comprises 28 public

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and state colleges. In 2008 the State University System had 302,513 students. Florida also has private universities, some of which comprise the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida. In 2010, nineteen of Florida's 28 community colleges were offering four year degree programs.

Primary and secondary schools

As of 2023, there are 4,230 public elementary and secondary schools in Florida. This includes 941 secondary (high) schools, 588 middle schools, and 2,248 elementary schools, along with some Pre-K and others. These schools collectively served 2,870,527 students through the end of the 2021-2022 school year. As of 2021, there are 2,640 private elementary and secondary schools in Florida, collectively serving 486,830 students. Attempts to develop public schools began as early as 1831, when the Florida Education Society was founded in Tallahassee. After the Civil War, the state adopted a new constitution which established the Florida Department of Public Instruction, headed by the Florida Superintendent of Public Instruction. The legislature passed a law in 1869 to provide "a uniform system of public instruction, free to all the youth residing in the state between the age of six and twenty-one years", and C. Thurston Chase was appointed by the governor to serve as the first superintendent. For most of the state's history, the schools were segregated by race. Prior to the civil war, little effort was made to educate African-American children, and in fact an 1832 law made it illegal to educate black people, whether slave or free. In 1885, the state passed a law prohibiting integrated education. In 1920 the state appointed J.H. Brinson as its first supervisor of Negro education. The state also maintained segregated schools for

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. From the end of the

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in the 1870s until the 1940s, the state and local governments gave far less money to all-black public schools compared to the favored white public schools. (There were no racially integrated schools.) However, many private schools for Blacks were funded by Northern philanthropy well into the 20th century. Support came from the

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; the Peabody Education Fund; the Jeanes Fund (also known as the Negro Rural School Fund); the

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; the Rosenwald Fund; the

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; and the General Education Board, which was massively funded by the Rockefeller family. In 1954, ''

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'', a

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case, declared segregated schools illegal, but few changes were made in Florida. Although a 1960 law repealed the prohibition on integration, it was not until 1963 that a black student, Chester Seabury, petitioned the Broward Board of Education, gained admittance, and became the first African-American to graduate from a white high school in Florida. In 1968, a constitutional revision replaced the Department of Public Instruction with the Department of Education, which is headed by the Commissioner of Education. Florida school districts map

School districts are organized within Florida's 67 county boundaries. Each school district has an elected

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which sets policy, budget, goals and approves expenditures. Management is the responsibility of a

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. The

allows districts to either elect the superintendent in a popular election (the default provision) or choose (via popular election) to allow the school board to appoint the superintendent. , school boards in 25 districts (Alachua, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, Duval, Flagler, Hernando, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lake, Lee, Manatee, Miami-Dade, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pinellas, Polk, Saint Johns, Saint Lucie, Sarasota, Seminole, and Volusia) appointed the superintendent; the remaining districts elect their superintendent.

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evaluated Florida's schools for 2010, fifth in the nation overall, with As for student testing, teacher accountability and progress on closing the achievement gap. It gave the state an F for per-pupil spending. In 2011, the liberal

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stated that for half the states it studied, it found no correlation between spending and achievement after allowing for

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, and students living in poverty. The Center commended Florida as one of two states that provides annual school-level productivity evaluations which report to the public how well school funds are being spent at the local level. Florida's public-school revenue per student and spending per $1000 of personal income usually rank in the bottom 25 percent of U.S. states. Average teacher salaries rank near the middle of U.S. states. Florida public schools once consistently ranked in the bottom 25 percent of many national surveys and average test-score rankings before allowances for race are made. When allowance for race is considered, a 2007 US Government list of test scores shows Florida white fourth graders performed 13th in the nation for reading (232), 12th for math (250); while black fourth graders were 11th for math (225), 12th for reading (208). White eighth graders scored 30th for math (289) and 36th for reading (268). Neither score was considered statistically significant from average. Black eighth graders ranked 19th on math (259), 25th on reading (244). However, phonics-based education following the pattern of the Mississippi Miracle have corresponded with significant growth over the past fifteen years. In 2002, voters approved a constitutional amendment to limit class size in public schools starting in the 2010-11 school year from 18 in lower grades to 23 in high school. This was phased in by the legislature from 2003 to 2009, to promote compliance when the amendment took effect. As of March 2011, 28 school districts had failed to comply and owed fines, which were to be redistributed to districts that were in compliance. Florida, like other states, appears to substantially undercount dropouts in reporting. Some school districts had backed up the start of the academic year well into August in order to complete the semester and exams before the December holiday break. In 2006, the legislature required districts to start no earlier than two weeks before the end of August, but that was changed in 2015 to no earlier than August 10. The state requires that each school teach for 180 days. Private schools may be open for more than 170 days. Florida does not handpick the best students to take the

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. In 2010, there were about 60,750 foreign-born children of

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attending public schools. The cost per year averaged $9,035 annually. The total cost of educating these children is over $548 million.

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students for discipline is legal in Florida.

History

Florida had a voucher system for low-income families from failing school districts from 1999 until 2006. In the final year, 750 students out of 190,000 eligible made this choice. The state paid an average of $4,000 per student as opposed to the $7,206 per student attending public schools. The system was overturned by the Florida Supreme Court for violating separation of church and state, since some students used these for church schools. Between 2000 and 2008, school enrollment increased 6%, the number of teachers 20%. For 2012,

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, a political lobbying organization, ranked Florida second among the fifty states, for policy related to education reform.

Sports

As in most areas, high schools compete in sports in two types of division. One, because of logistical and geographical constraints, is necessarily local. That is, large schools play small ones in the same area. A second division is based on school population and is statewide. Eventually, schools with the best records in this type of division will meet each other for seasonal playoffs to determine the state champion. Competition is under the auspices of the

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Funding

In the fiscal year 2007-2008, the Florida Educational Enhancement Trust Fund received $1.28 billion from the Florida Lottery, passing the billion-dollar mark for the sixth time in the lottery's 20-year history. , the current lottery's total contribution since start-up was more than $19 billion.

School choice

Florida provides various voucher programs allowing K-12 students to enroll in schools outside their local

, including other public schools,

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and

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. From the school year 2019-20 through the school year 2022-2023, enrollment in Florida's private schools grew to 445,000 students, an increase of 47,000. During the same period, the number of homeschooled children in the state rose to 154,000, an increase of 50,000.

Public colleges and universities

In 2010, the annual tuition alone, at Florida's 12 public universities was $4,886, third lowest in the country. The average cost total for books, tuition, fees, and living expenses, is $15,500 compared to $16,140 average for the country. In an attempt to save money, entering students may take nationally standardized

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exams. In 2010, 67, 741 Florida seniors took the exam. 33,712 scored 3 or more, sufficient for advanced placement. A total of 307,000 Florida students took AP exams in 2010. 64,000 scored a minimum of three or more; 43,000 scoring a four or higher.

State University System of Florida

The

manages and funds Florida's twelve public universities and a public Liberal Arts college: In 2009, the system employed 45,000 people statewide. The budget was $4.1 billion for community colleges and universities. In 2000, the governor and the state legislature abolished the

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, which long had governed the State University System of Florida, and created boards of trustees to govern each university. As is typical of executive-appointed government boards, the appointees so far have predominantly belonged to the governor's party. This effect has not been without controversy. In 2002, former governor and then-U.S. Senator

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( Dem.) led a constitutional-amendment ballot referendum designed to restore the board-of-regents system. Voters approved. Therefore, the legislature created the

; however, each university still maintains a board of trustees which work under the board of governors. During Florida's 2007 legislative session, Governor

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signed into law SB-1710, which allowed the board of governors to allow a tuition differential for the

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, and the

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. This legislation ultimately created a tier system for higher education in Florida's State University System.

Florida College System

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Private colleges and universities

The Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida is an association of around 30 private, educational institutions in the state of Florida. The association reported that their member institutions enrolled over 121,000 students in the fall of 2006. * Adventist University of Health Sciences,

* Ave Maria University,

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, Miami Shores * Beacon College, Leesburg * Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach * Clearwater Christian College, Clearwater *

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Edward Waters College Edward Waters University is a private Christian historically Black university in Jacksonville, Florida. It was founded in 1866 by members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME Church) as a school to educate freedmen and their childre ...

, Jacksonville * Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach * Everglades University *

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, Saint Augustine * Florida Coastal School of Law, Jacksonville *

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, Tampa *

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Lynn University Lynn University is a private university in Boca Raton, Florida, United States. Founded in 1962, the university awards Associate degree, associate, Bachelor's degree, baccalaureate, Master's degree, master's, and Doctorate, doctoral Academic degr ...

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Saint Leo University Saint Leo University is a private Catholic university in St. Leo, Florida. It was established in 1889. The university is associated with the Holy Name Monastery, a Benedictine convent, and Saint Leo Abbey, a Benedictine monastery. The universi ...

, Saint Leo * Saint Thomas University, Miami *

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Warner University Warner University is a private Christian university in Lake Wales, Florida, United States. It is affiliated with the Church of God. History "Warner Southern College" was founded in 1968 by the Southeastern Association of the Church of G ...

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Webber International University Webber International University (Webber or WIU) is a private university in Babson Park, Florida. History Webber International was founded as "Webber College" by Roger Babson, an entrepreneur and business theorist in the first half of the 20t ...

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Additionally, there are many colleges and universities that are not affiliated with the ICUF. * Baptist College of Florida * Boca Raton Arts College *

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* Fort Lauderdale Institute of Art * The Art Institute of Jacksonville, Jacksonville *

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Talmudic University of Florida Yeshiva V'Kollel Beis Moshe Chaim is an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox yeshiva and a kollel located in Miami Beach, Florida. Its rosh yeshiva is Rabbi Yochanan Zweig, an alumnus of Ner Israel Rabbinical College. It is also known as the ''Talmudic Uni ...

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