Jefferson County Schools (Florida)

[citation needed] Prior to 2016 White and African-American board members were in conflict.

[7] In 2015 the state government reduced the amount of money going into the district, which by then had 882 students, at that point the lowest such number ever.

[8] In the summer of 2016 the FDOE decided that the elected school board should make a plan to change its governance significantly.

[7] The state DOE again took financial control in 2017 due to missing money, low school grades and questionable staffing decisions.

[7] Jefferson County is the only Florida school district to ever be controlled by a charter network.

[13] The FDOE returned control to the local school board on February 9, 2022 but the district must submit a monthly budget report to the state for one year and maintain a minimum 5% unassigned fund balance.

In earlier eras after de jure segregation ended, the student population was 75% African-American.