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| ==About the district==
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| :: ''See also: [[School District of Osceola County, Florida]]''
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| [[File:Map of Florida highlighting Osceola County.svg|200px|thumb|left|link=School District of Osceola County, Florida|School District of Osceola County is located in Osceola County, Florida]] School District of Osceola County is based in [[Kissimmee, Florida|Kissimmee]], the county seat of [[Osceola County, Florida]]. Osceola County is home to 298,504 residents, according to the United States Census Bureau.<ref name=Census>[http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/12/12097.html ''United States Census Bureau,'' "Osceola County, Florida," accessed July 14, 2014]</ref> School District of Osceola County was the [[Largest school districts in the United States by enrollment|14th-largest school district]] in [[Florida]], serving 54,783 students during the 2011-2012 school year.<ref name=cohort>[https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/elsi/tableGenerator.aspx ''National Center for Education Statistics,'' "ELSI Table Generator," accessed July 14, 2014]</ref>
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| ===Demographics===
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| Osceola County underperformed in comparison to the rest of Florida in terms of higher education achievement in 2012. The United States Census Bureau found that 17.5 percent of Osceola County residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree compared to 26.2 percent for Florida as a whole. The median household income in Osceola County was $44,887 compared to $47,309 for the state of Florida. The poverty rate in Osceola County was 16.0 percent compared to 15.6 percent for the entire state.<ref name=Census/>
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| ! colspan="3" style="background-color:#00008B; color: white;" |'' Racial Demographics, 2013<ref name=Census/>
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| ! colspan="2" style="background-color:#00008B; color: white;" |'' Party registration, 2014<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20140714150437/https://www.voteosceola.com/en/ ''Osceola County Supervisor of Elections,'' "Home," accessed July 14, 2014]</ref>
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| ==Recent news== | | ==Recent news== |
Leah H. Carius
was
a candidate for the District 1 seat on the Osceola County School Board in Florida. She
was defeated by
Jay Wheeler in the general election on August 26, 2014.
Elections
2014
- See also: School District of Osceola County elections (2014)
The August 26, 2014, general election in Osceola County
featured
three seats up for election. Jay Wheeler
defeated
challenger Leah H. Carius in District 1. The District 4 race
featured
incumbent Barbara R. Horn who lost her seat to challenger Clarence L. Thacker. Ricky Booth, Wade Davis, Lynn Dower and Linda B. Oliverio ran to replace Tom Long, who did not file for re-election in District 5. Booth won the open seat.
The general election
determined
if candidates for each seat could garner a majority of the vote total. If no candidate
had received
50 percent plus one of the general election votes in a particular district, the top two vote recipients
would have advanced
to the runoff election on November 4, 2014. No runoff elections were necessary.
Results
School District of Osceola County, District 1 General Election, 4-year term, 2014
| Party |
Candidate |
Vote % |
Votes |
| |
Nonpartisan |
 Jay Wheeler Incumbent |
51.8% |
2,142 |
| |
Nonpartisan |
Leah H. Carius |
48.2% |
1,990 |
| Total Votes |
4,132 |
| Source: Osceola County Supervisor of Elections, "August 26, 2014, Primary Election, Oofficial Results," accessed June 10, 2015 |
Recent news
This section links to a Google news search for the term "Leah + Carius + Osceola + County + Schools + Florida"
See also
External links
