Florida leads the way in the Preseason High School Football America 1000

Florida high school football leads the way in the HSFA 1000.
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Florida has the most high school football teams in the Preseason High School Football America 1000, powered by NFL Play Football.

129 teams from the Sunshine State are among the top 1,000 teams that will be reduced to the Preseason HSFA 300 that will be released this weekend. Florida is just in front of Texas, which has 125 teams in the preseason rankings.

Below are the teams in alphabetical order that made the list that is created with our proprietary algorithm that we’ve been using since 2013.

Florida teams in Preseason HSFA 1000

American Heritage (Plantation)
Apopka
Armwood
Atlantic (Delray Beach)
Auburndale
Bartram Trail
Belen Jesuit
Benjamin
Berkeley Prep
Bishop Verot
Blanche Ely
Boca Raton
Bolles School
Booker T. Washington (Miami)
Booker (Sarasota)
Buchholz
Calvary Christian (Clearwater)
Cardinal Gibbons
Cardinal Mooney
Cardinal Newman
Carrollwood Day
Chaminade-Madonna
Chiles
Choctawhatchee
Clearwater
Clearwater Central Catholic
Cocoa
Coconut Creek
Columbia (Lake City)
Columbus (Miami)
Creekside
DeLand
Dillard
Doral Academy
Dr. Phillips
Dunbar
Durant
East Bay
Edgewater
Edison (Miami)
ED White
Escambia
Eau Gallie
Fletcher
Florida State University HS
Gaither
Golden Gate
Gulliver Prep
Heritage (Palm Bay)
Hillsborough
Homestead
IMG Academy
Jesuit
Jones (Orlando)
Killian
Lake Gibson
Lakeland
Lake Minneola
Lake Wales
Lake Mary
Lakewood
Largo
Leesburg
Lincoln (Tallahassee)
Madison County
Mainland
Manatee
Mandarin
Merritt Island
Miami Central
Mitchell
Miramar
Monarch
Monsignor Pace
Mosley
Naples
Navarre
Nease
Niceville
Norland
North Miami Beach
Northwestern (Miami)
Osceola (Kissimmee)
Oviedo
Pahokee
Palm Beach Central
Palm Beach Gardens
Palmetto
Palmetto (Miami)
Pensacola Catholic
Plant
Plantation
Plant City
Pine Forest
Pinellas Park
Ponte Vedra
Raines
Riverside (Jacksonville)
Riverview (Sarasota)
Rockledge
Sebring
Seminole (Sanford)
South Dade
Southridge 
South Sumter
South Walton
Spruce Creek
St. Augustine
St. Thomas Aquinas
Stranahan
Sumner
Tampa Bay Tech
Treasure Coast
Trinity Christian Academy (Jacksonville)
University (Orange City)
Vanguard
Venice
Vero Beach
Viera
Wakulla
Wekiva
West Boca Raton
West Broward
West Orange
Western
Wharton
Winter Park
Wiregrass Ranch
Zephyrhills

Editor’s Note: The High School Football America national, regional and state rankings are developed using our proprietary algorithm.

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About the Author

Jeff Fisher
Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.