About Columbia School District
Columbia School District is a public school system serving Columbia County, Florida, based in Lake City. It serves 9,508 students across 18 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a town: distant district. By enrollment it is the #41 largest of Florida’s 82 school systems.
Size and structure
Columbia School District enrolls 9,508 students in 18 schools — an average of about 528 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #41 of 82 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Columbia School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (9,508 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Columbia School District employs about 527 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 18.1:1 — below the Florida average of about 18.3:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 1,296.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Florida funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Columbia School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Florida assigns A–F grades to every school and district from achievement and learning gains in English language arts, math and science, the gains of the lowest-performing quartile, graduation rate and college-and-career acceleration. Look up Columbia School District’s grade on the Florida school grades page.
Accreditation status
Most Florida districts are accredited through Cognia (via its SACS CASI division), which accredits whole district “systems” as well as individual schools. Look up Columbia School District in the free Cognia registry.
Columbia School District vs. Florida
See every Florida district side by side in the Florida directory.
Look up Columbia School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):