Florida Education

Florida Education

Florida Department of Education

Florida Commissioner of Education :

District/School Information

Length of School Year: A minimum of 180 school days is required by Florida state law.

Number of Public School Districts: There are 67 public school districts in Florida.

Number of Public Schools: There are 4253 public schools in Florida. ****

Number of Students Served in Public Schools: There are 2,634,522 public school students in Florida. ****

Number of Teachers in Public Schools: There are 183,827 public school teachers in Florida.****

Number of Charter Schools: There are 446 charter schools in Florida.

Per Pupil Spending: Florida spends $8,747 per pupil in public education. ****

Average Class Size: The average class size In Florida is 14.3 students per 1 teacher. ****

% of Title I Schools: 71.2% of schools in Florida are Title I Schools.****

% With Individualized Education Programs (IEP): 14.2% of students in Florida are on IEP's. ****

% in Limited-English Proficiency Programs: 8.8% of students in Florida are in limited-English Proficient Programs.****

% of Student Eligible for Free/Reduced Lunches: 53.5% of student in Florida schools are eligible for free/reduced lunches.****

Ethnic/Racial Student Breakdown****

White: 45.9%

Black: 23.9%

Hispanic: 27.2%

Asian/Pacific Islander: 2.7%

American Indian/Alaskan Native: 0.4%

School Assessment Data

Graduation Rate: 70.8% of all students entering high school in Florida graduate. **

ACT/SAT rank: 170.4 students per 1000 in Florida had a score of 25+ on the ACT or a 1780+ on the SAT. ***

8th grade NAEP assessment scores:****

Math: 278 is the scaled score for 8th grade students in Florida. The U.S. average was 283.

Reading: 262 is the scaled score for 8th grade students in Florida. The U.S. average was 264.

% of Students Who Attend College after High School: 58.8% of students in Florida go on to attend some level of college. ***

Private Schools

Number of Private Schools: There are 1714 private schools in Florida.*

Number of Students Served in Private Schools: There are 339,682 private school students in Florida.*

Teacher Pay

The average teacher pay for the state of Florida was $50,180.00 in 2009.##

Each individual district in the state of Florida negotiates teacher salaries and establishes their own teacher salary schedule.

The following is an example of a teacher salary schedule in Florida provided by the Sarasota County Public Schools District

*Data courtesy of Education Bug .

**Data courtesy of ED.gov

***Data courtesy of the NCHEMS Information Center for Higher Education Policy Making and Analysis

****Data courtesy of the National Center for Education Statistics

##Average salary courtesy of Teacher Salary Info