School board elections, 2024
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This page contains links to school board elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024 by state. In 2024, Ballotpedia covered elections for more than 25,000 school board seats. We expand our coverage each year with our eye on covering the country’s more than 80,000 school board seats. Ballotpedia also covers all school board recalls in the United States.
In 2024, Ballotpedia's election coverage included 14 school board battlegrounds. That included elections in Chicago, Pinellas County, Florida, and Los Angeles.
Use the links below to navigate the page:
- School board elections by state
- Battleground election coverage
- Election archive
- Historical data and background
School board elections by state[edit]
Below are the districts holding elections in the top 100 largest cities or one of the top 200 largest school districts in the country. If you don't see your school district listed below, check our sample ballot lookup tool for your election information.
Battleground elections[edit]
Below, you'll find Ballotpedia's list of 2024 school board battleground elections. Click here to learn more about how Ballotpedia defines battleground elections.
Spring elections[edit]
November 5 elections[edit]
Ballotpedia provided in-depth coverage of school board elections. Click the links below to read about each of those elections. More elections may be added before November 5.
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School district election archive[edit]
Historical election data[edit]
Methodology note: This report does not include write-in candidates unless an incumbent ran as a write-in.
From 2018 to 2024, Ballotpedia covered elections for 6,060 school board seats in 2,070 districts. Ballotpedia normally covers school board elections in the 200 largest school districts by student enrollment and the school districts that overlap the 100 largest cities by population. However, in 2019, we also covered all school districts up for election in the state of North Carolina. Those districts are included in this data.
We found that between 24% and 40% of elections were unopposed each year, that incumbents won between 51% and 61% of seats each year, and that between 79% and 89% of incumbents who sought re-election won each year.
Details on each year's election statistics can be found in the table below.
Seats won by incumbents and newcomers[edit]
Incumbents won a larger percentage of seats in the 2018 school board elections compared to the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 elections, 2023, and 2024.
Incumbency success rates[edit]
Incumbents who ran against challengers in 2019 had a higher contested success rate than those who ran against challengers in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Incumbents in 2019 also had a higher overall success rate compared to the other four years.
Subscribe to Hall Pass to stay up to date on school board politics and education policy[edit]
Hall Pass is a weekly newsletter designed to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and education policy. We bring you a roundup of the sharpest education commentary and research from across the political spectrum and the latest on school board elections and recall efforts.
Below are the three most recent editions:
Analysis of local elections[edit]
- See also: United States municipal elections, 2024
This section will contain links to all local elections elections covered on Ballotpedia in 2024, including municipal elections, school board elections, local trial court judicial elections, and local ballot measure elections. More information will be added to this page as it becomes available.
Ballotpedia's coverage scope for municipal elections included elections on the ballot in the 100 largest U.S. cities by population, as well as elections for mayors, city council members, and district attorneys in each state capital.
In 2024, Ballotpedia covered elections for more than 25,000 school board seats. We expand our coverage each year with our eye on covering the country’s more than 80,000 school board seats. Ballotpedia also covers all school board recalls in the United States.
Throughout 2024, Ballotpedia provided comprehensive local election coverage in 20 states as well as comprehensive general election in six additional states. Use the links below to navigate to pages for each of these states, which contain additional links to specific counties.
Arkansas • Arizona • California • Delaware • Florida • Georgia • Hawaii • Iowa • Illinois • Indiana • Kentucky • Maine • Michigan • Minnesota • Montana • North Carolina • New Mexico • Nevada • Ohio • Oklahoma • Rhode Island • South Carolina • Texas • Washington • Wisconsin • Wyoming
Featured analysis (from 2023)[edit]
- Partisanship in United States municipal elections (2023): Twenty-nine of the 100 largest cities held mayoral elections in 2023. Heading into the year, 20 of those cities had a Democratic mayor, seven had a Republican mayor, one mayor was independent, and one mayor's partisan affiliation was unknown. Mayoral offices changed partisan control in five cities in 2023—four as the result of elections and one party switch—resulting in no net change in the number of offices held by Democrats and a net loss of two Republican-held offices. Libertarians and independents gained one office each. Once mayors elected in 2023 assumed office, Democrats held 63 top-100 mayoral offices, Republicans held 26, Libertarians held one, independents held four, and nonpartisan mayors held four. Two mayors' partisan affiliations were unknown.
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Tap the box below to show more analysis articles related to the 2024 local elections.
- United States municipal elections overview
- School board elections
- Local trial court judicial elections
- Local ballot measure elections
- Analysis of uncontested elections
- Partisan balance of mayors of the 100 largest cities by population
- Rematches in 2024 general elections
- Ballotpedia's Mid-Year Recall Report (2024)
- Ballotpedia's 2024 Recall Analysis
- Trends in the margins of victory for incumbents of three or more terms, 2018-2024
- Incumbents who won primaries by five percentage points or fewer or with a plurality, 2024
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2024
- Endorsements of school board members by state executive officeholders and candidates, 2024
- School choice in the United States
- National Center for Education Statistics
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Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Appleton Post-Crescent, "Here's who's behind latest mailers, attack ads in the Neenah school board election," March 27, 2024
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wisconsin Education Association Council, "Union-Recommended Candidates," accessed March 27, 2024
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Winnebago County Republican Party, "April 2, 2024, Recommendations," accessed March 27, 2024
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Facebook, "Winnebago County (WI) Democratic Party on March 20, 2024," accessed March 27, 2024
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Facebook, "Brian Epley for Neenah School Board on March 19, 2024," accessed March 27, 2024
- ↑ Wisconsin AFL-CIO, "2024 Spring Election - Endorsed Candidates," accessed March 27, 2024
- ↑ Chari Long campaign website, "Home page," accessed March 27, 2024
- ↑ Jeb Pfeifle campaign website, "Home page," accessed March 27, 2024
- ↑ Roxanne Schwandt-Knutson campaign website, "Home page," accessed March 27, 2024
- ↑ 1776 Project PAC, "Our Endorsed Candidates," accessed March 27, 2024
- ↑ City of Neenah, "February 20, 2024, Spring Primary Official Canvassed Election Results by Polling Location," accessed March 27, 2024
- ↑ Associated Press, "Wisconsin school district releases tape of Black superintendent’s comments that led to resignation," February 21, 2024
- ↑ We Are Green Bay, "Tiller Jr. supporters show up to GBAPS special board meeting," February 16, 2024
- ↑ Green Bay Press-Gazette, "Green Bay School Board member Laura Laitinen-Warren resigns amid Claude Tiller controversy," February 26, 2024
- ↑ WTAQ, "Minorities Running For More Representation On Green Bay School Board," March 22, 2024
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Press Times, "Four In Bid For Two Seats On GBAPS Board Of Education," March 5, 2024
- ↑ Green Bay Press Gazette, "Meet the candidates: Paul Boucher for Green Bay school board," March 14, 2018
- ↑ Kou Lee campaign website, "Home page," accessed March 26, 2024
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