What Florida School Districts Spend Per Student
The median Florida school district spends $10,910 per student per year, $3,633 below the national median of $14,543, across all 67 districts the state reports. The 67 of them a ZIP code can reach are listed below, and their 2,805,486 students account for $31.1 billion of current spending in fiscal year 2022.
Florida at a Glance
| Median district, per student | $10,910 |
|---|---|
| National median district | $14,543 |
| Districts listed | 67 of 67 |
| Students listed | 2,805,486 |
| Median district, math | 58% |
| Median district, reading | 54% |
Every Florida District, by Enrollment
Spending is current spending divided by fall membership for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates are school year 2018-19, the last year before the pandemic interrupted state testing, so the money and the results are not from the same year. A figure marked ≈ is one the federal file published as a range rather than a value, so small groups of children stay unidentifiable; it is the middle of that range and within ten points of the real one. A dash means the federal files publish no value under that district's ID.
| District | Students | Per student | Math | Reading | Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dade County School District | 328,589 | $12,258 | 61% | 59% | 86% |
| Broward County School District | 256,037 | $11,419 | 60% | 58% | 87% |
| Hillsborough County School District | 224,149 | $9,835 | 55% | 54% | 87% |
| Orange County School District | 203,224 | $11,578 | 55% | 53% | 88% |
| Palm Beach County School District | 187,943 | $12,727 | 62% | 57% | 87% |
| Duval County School District | 128,948 | $10,696 | 57% | 49% | 87% |
| Polk County School District | 105,422 | $11,454 | 50% | 47% | 81% |
| Lee County School District | 97,264 | $10,788 | 58% | 54% | 84% |
| Pinellas County School District | 95,446 | $11,582 | 56% | 54% | 88% |
| Pasco County School District | 81,157 | $9,640 | 60% | 57% | 89% |
| Brevard County School District | 72,497 | $10,368 | 62% | 61% | 88% |
| Osceola County School District | 72,427 | $9,818 | 48% | 49% | 90% |
| Seminole County School District | 66,729 | $9,352 | 64% | 62% | 93% |
| Volusia County School District | 62,666 | $9,863 | 53% | 52% | 85% |
| Manatee County School District | 50,248 | $10,900 | 60% | 52% | 83% |
| St. Johns County School District | 48,032 | $9,233 | 80% | 75% | 94% |
| Collier County School District | 47,617 | $12,737 | 64% | 58% | 92% |
| Lake County School District | 45,845 | $9,989 | 56% | 54% | 87% |
| Sarasota County School District | 43,896 | $12,753 | 71% | 66% | 89% |
| St. Lucie County School District | 43,612 | $11,031 | 51% | 52% | 90% |
| Marion County School District | 42,678 | $10,818 | 49% | 47% | 84% |
| Clay County School District | 38,593 | $9,847 | 66% | 62% | 93% |
| Escambia County School District | 37,804 | $10,794 | 49% | 49% | 86% |
| Leon County School District | 32,562 | $10,180 | 61% | 58% | 92% |
| Okaloosa County School District | 32,340 | $10,590 | 72% | 64% | 88% |
| Santa Rosa County School District | 30,576 | $9,674 | 69% | 65% | 89% |
| Alachua County School District | 28,808 | $10,805 | 58% | 57% | 88% |
| Bay County School District | 26,199 | $10,446 | 59% | 58% | 83% |
| Hernando County School District | 23,404 | $9,962 | 58% | 54% | 89% |
| Martin County School District | 18,542 | $11,820 | 66% | 57% | 87% |
| Indian River County School District | 17,366 | $11,476 | 57% | 55% | 88% |
| Charlotte County School District | 16,400 | $11,716 | 60% | 55% | 86% |
| Citrus County School District | 15,691 | $10,865 | 59% | 56% | 89% |
| Hendry County School District | 14,333 | $8,011 | 46% | 44% | 84% |
| Flagler County School District | 13,131 | $9,931 | 62% | 60% | 89% |
| Nassau County School District | 12,380 | $9,766 | 76% | 67% | 92% |
| Highlands County School District | 12,246 | $11,874 | 52% | 46% | 81% |
| Walton County School District | 11,066 | $11,790 | 66% | 63% | 89% |
| Putnam County School District | 10,227 | $11,305 | 44% | 43% | 86% |
| Columbia County School District | 9,923 | $10,799 | 63% | 57% | 92% |
| Sumter County School District | 8,912 | $10,415 | 65% | 63% | 87% |
| Monroe County School District | 8,851 | $15,790 | 64% | 61% | 86% |
| Okeechobee County School District | 6,404 | $10,838 | 56% | 46% | 76% |
| Jackson County School District | 6,033 | $12,182 | 56% | 57% | 85% |
| Suwannee County School District | 5,864 | $10,292 | 49% | 49% | 94% |
| Levy County School District | 5,545 | $10,893 | 53% | 46% | 89% |
| Wakulla County School District | 5,061 | $9,999 | 63% | 61% | 92% |
| Baker County School District | 4,969 | $10,090 | 59% | 52% | 79% |
| Hardee County School District | 4,941 | $10,936 | 59% | 48% | 81% |
| Gadsden County School District | 4,709 | $13,468 | 47% | 38% | 62% |
| DeSoto County School District | 4,568 | $12,175 | 40% | 35% | 71% |
| Washington County School District | 3,370 | $10,910 | 56% | 54% | 80% |
| Holmes County School District | 3,205 | $11,051 | 49% | 52% | 85% |
| Bradford County School District | 2,867 | $10,715 | 52% | 45% | ≈87% |
| Gilchrist County School District | 2,796 | $11,383 | 70% | 66% | ≈87% |
| Taylor County School District | 2,752 | $12,640 | 57% | 50% | ≈82% |
| Madison County School District | 2,371 | $11,771 | 44% | 42% | 83% |
| Union County School District | 2,367 | $10,031 | 73% | 61% | ≈82% |
| Dixie County School District | 2,128 | $11,407 | 55% | 54% | ≈92% |
| Calhoun County School District | 2,103 | $11,462 | 64% | 62% | ≈87% |
| Gulf County School District | 1,930 | $13,147 | 52% | 50% | ≈82% |
| Glades County School District | 1,698 | $12,670 | 53% | 46% | ≈92% |
| Hamilton County School District | 1,642 | $12,113 | 42% | 35% | ≈72% |
| Liberty County School District | 1,302 | $13,011 | 57% | 62% | ≈87% |
| Franklin County School District | 1,242 | $14,882 | 42% | 42% | ≈72% |
| Lafayette County School District | 1,143 | $12,280 | 71% | 58% | ≈98% |
| Jefferson County School District | 696 | $11,148 | 38% | 33% | ≈65% |
Sources
Spending and enrollment come from the NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates come from EDFacts for school year 2018-19. Districts are matched to ZIP codes through the NCES EDGE geographic relationship file. Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled: a figure is read from a federal source file or it is left blank.
Questions About Florida School Spending
How much does the average Florida school district spend per student?
The middle, or median, Florida district spent $10,910 per student in fiscal year 2022, $3,633 below the national median of $14,543. The median is the better summary here: a few very small districts spend several times what a large one does, and an average would follow them. That median covers all 67 districts the state reports. Across the 67 a ZIP code can reach, which are the ones listed on this page, 2,805,486 students account for $31.1 billion of current spending.
Which Florida districts spend the most and least per student?
Monroe County School District reports the highest figure in the table at $15,790 per student for 8,851 students, and Hendry County School District the lowest at $8,011 for 14,333 students. Enrollment is the denominator, so a small district with one building and one bus route honestly produces a high figure; read the two columns together.
Why are some Florida districts missing from this table?
Every Florida district with federal finance data appears in this table.
Does this money follow a child who is homeschooled?
No. The figure is what the district spends on a seat in its own schools, funded from local property tax, state formula aid and federal programs. Withdrawing a child removes the child from the count rather than sending the money home. TheHomeschoolingCompany is $1,788 for one student for a school year by comparison, less for each child after the first.
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