- December 16, 2025
Of 12,093 total students enrolled in Flagler County’s 11 public schools, 11,089 were marked “Present” on attendance sheets the first day of the fall semester, Aug. 22.
“We are going to continue to watch this attendance, check it … for the next 10 days,” Superintendent Janet Valentine said, noting that there will be corrections as the weeks go on, due to computer glitches and no-shows.
“After 10 days, students will begin to be withdrawn if they’ve not shown up,” she said. “We’re about where we expected to be.”
With a total of 1,004 students missing the first day of school, board member Colleen Conklin noted the increase in local charter school enrollment. She suggested establishing a survey/interview system for parents who transfer their children out of public schools and into private.
Maybe they just like uniforms, she said, but if the board better understood why those parents “choose to leave the traditional system,” they might be able to address the issues.
“I believe that we’d glean information from that that would only work to make us better,” she said. “There’s a lot of information there we might benefit from.”
