Florida school board elections, 2026

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Ballotpedia covers tens of thousands of school board elections across the United States each year. This page contains links to this state's school districts where Ballotpedia is covering elections in 2026. The following table lists districts that overlap with the nation's 100 largest cities or that are among the nation's 200 largest school districts and for which Ballotpedia provides comprehensive coverage.

Editor's note: Some school districts choose to cancel the primary election, or both the primary and general election, if the number of candidates who filed does not meet a certain threshold. The table below does not reflect which primary or general elections were canceled. Please click through to each school district's page for more information.

2026 Florida School Board Elections

District	Primary	Primary Runoff	General Election	General Runoff Election	Seats up for election	Total board seats	2023-2024 enrollment
Brevard Public Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	73,810
Broward County Public Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	5	9	251,408
Clay County District Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	39,362
Collier County Public Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	48,282
Duval County Public Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	7	127,971
Escambia County School District	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	37,203
Hillsborough County Public Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	7	224,152
Lake County Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	48,285
Leon County Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	31,769
Marion County Public Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	45,547
Miami-Dade County Public Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	4	9	335,500
Okaloosa County School District	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	32,426
Orange County Public Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	4	8	206,815
Pasco County Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	85,855
Pinellas County Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	4	7	91,021
Polk County Public Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	4	7	111,041
Sarasota County Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	45,314
School District of Lee County	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	4	7	100,064
School District of Manatee County	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	52,895
School District of Osceola County	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	74,289
School District of Palm Beach County	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	4	7	189,777
Seminole County Public Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	65,443
St. Johns County School District	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	51,434
St. Lucie Public Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	46,987
Volusia County Schools	8/18/2026	-	11/3/2026	-	3	5	62,742

Election rules

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Election dates and frequency

See also: Rules governing school board election dates and timing

School board nonpartisan primary elections in Oklahoma are held on the second Tuesday in February every year. School board primary elections are only held if more than two candidates run for a school board member seat. If two candidates run, the primary is canceled and both candidates advance to the general election.

School board general elections in Oklahoma are held on the first Tuesday in April every year.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Recent or upcoming election dates for all public school districts in the state

Below are the recent/upcoming dates for all public school districts in the state. There may be exceptions to these dates for specific districts because of local charters and district-specific exceptions and carve-outs.

• Filing deadline date: December 3, 2025
• Primary election date: February 10, 2026
• General election date: April 7, 2026

Election system

School board members in Oklahoma are elected through a system of a nonpartisan primary election and a nonpartisan general election. The primary election is only held if a large enough number of candidates run for office.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Party labels on the ballot

See also: Rules governing party labels in school board elections

School board elections in Oklahoma are nonpartisan, which means party labels do not appear on the ballot for school board candidates.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Winning an election

The top two school board candidates with the most votes in the nonpartisan primary advance to the general election as long as none of them receives more than 50% of the vote. If only two candidates file for the primary election, they automatically advance to the general election. If there are three or more candidates on the ballot for the primary election and one receives more than 50% of the vote, that candidate wins the election outright and is elected to office, and the general election is canceled.

The school board candidate with the most votes in the general election is elected to office. In Oklahoma, school board candidates can be elected outright in the nonpartisan primary election.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Term length and staggering

School districts with three board members have three-year board member terms. School districts with five members have five-year board member terms. School districts with seven members have four-year board member terms. Elementary school district board members have three-year terms. Independent school districts (which serve grades K-12) have school boards with five-year terms or four-year terms, depending on how many school board members they have. Districts with average student attendance of more than 30,000 can opt to elect a chair of the board in addition to other school board members. The chair must be elected at large to four-year terms. As of 2022, Oklahoma City Schools was the only district that had opted to have an additional elected chair of the school board.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Representation: at large vs. by sub-district

School districts either elect all regular school board members at large, or they elect all regular school board members from residence areas (sub-districts) with one board member elected by the voters of each sub-district. Elementary school districts must elect school board members at large. Any school district with an average daily student attendance of fewer than 1,800 students may choose to elect school board members at large instead of from sub-districts. Other school districts must elect school board members by sub-districts. Independent school districts that contain a city and for which less than 20% of the population of the school district resides outside of the city's limits may use the city's ward boundaries instead of drawing its own sub-district boundaries. Board members elected from sub-districts must reside within that sub-district when elected and for the duration of their terms. School districts with average student attendance of more than 30,000 can opt to elect a chair of the school board at large, which means that if other board members are elected by sub-district, that district would use a combination of elections at large and elections by sub-district elections.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Filing deadlines and swearing-in dates

The deadline for candidates to file for regular school board elections is the Wednesday following the first Monday in December in the year before the February primary election. Candidates must submit their filing by 5:00 pm on the day of the filing deadline.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §26-13A-110

Newly elected school board members officially take office at the first school board meeting taking place after the results of the election have been certified.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Recalls

See also: Recall campaigns in Florida and School board recalls

Florida does not allow for the recall of school board members. Click here for a list of states that do.

State profile

Demographic data for Florida
	Florida	U.S.
Total population:	20,244,914	316,515,021
Land area (sq mi):	53,625	3,531,905
Race and ethnicity**
White:	76%	73.6%
Black/African American:	16.1%	12.6%
Asian:	2.6%	5.1%
Native American:	0.3%	0.8%
Pacific Islander:	0.1%	0.2%
Two or more:	2.4%	3%
Hispanic/Latino:	23.7%	17.1%
Education
High school graduation rate:	86.9%	86.7%
College graduation rate:	27.3%	29.8%
Income
Median household income:	$47,507	$53,889
Persons below poverty level:	19.8%	11.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2010-2015) Click here for more information on the 2020 census and here for more on its impact on the redistricting process in Florida. **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

Presidential voting pattern

See also: Presidential voting trends in Florida

Florida voted Republican in five out of the seven presidential elections between 2000 and 2024.

Pivot Counties (2016)

Ballotpedia identified 206 counties that voted for Donald Trump (R) in 2016 after voting for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012. Collectively, Trump won these Pivot Counties by more than 580,000 votes. Of these 206 counties, four are located in Florida, accounting for 1.94 percent of the total pivot counties.

Pivot Counties (2020)

In 2020, Ballotpedia re-examined the 206 Pivot Counties to view their voting patterns following that year's presidential election. Ballotpedia defined those won by Trump won as Retained Pivot Counties and those won by Joe Biden (D) as Boomerang Pivot Counties. Nationwide, there were 181 Retained Pivot Counties and 25 Boomerang Pivot Counties. Florida had three Retained Pivot Counties and one Boomerang Pivot County, accounting for 1.66 and 4.00 percent of all Retained and Boomerang Pivot Counties, respsectively.

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Historical analysis

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See also

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