The Florida High School Athletic Association is a membership-driven organization, which encompasses over 850 schools that believe sportsmanship and fair play will foster positive futures for its student-athletes.

Any public or private school in Florida, recognized by the Florida Department of Education, or any formal home education cooperative, may become a member of the FHSAA by completing a membership application on which it agrees to adopt and abide by the FHSAA Bylaws, as well as all regulations and policies established by the Association’s Board of Directors.

The Association accomplishes its aims and serves its member schools through the following administrative structure:

1. The 13-member Board of Directors, which meets five times annually, determines FHSAA policy, provides guidelines for the entire program sponsored by the FHSAA, employs an Executive Director and staff to administer the programs of the FHSAA, and serves as a final court of appeal in all matters that come before it.
2. The 60-plus member Representative Assembly meets annually to consider proposed changes to the Association’s bylaws.
3. A seven-member Sectional Appeals Committee meets nine times annually in each of the Association’s four administrative sections to hear undue hardship eligibility cases, which are filed by member schools on behalf of student-athletes, and other requests for waivers of rules or appeals of decisions by the Executive Director filed by member schools themselves. All unfavorable decisions by the Sectional Appeals Committees may be appealed to the Board of Directors.
4. Advisory Committees representating athletic directors, contest officials and coaches in each sanctioned sport in which the FHSAA conducts state championship series competition meet annually to review all regulations pertaining to them and to make recommendations to the Board of Directors for changes to those regulations for the upcoming season. A Sports Medicine Advisory Committee is composed of physicians and athletic trainers, and functions as a resource relative to issues of health and safety in athletics. The Public Liaison Advisory Committee acts as a conduit through which members of the general public may access the decision-making process of the Association.
5. The Executive Director, the Association’s chief executive officer, manages the daily operations of the FHSAA, enforces its rules, and supervises a 25-member office staff in Gainesville that administers the Association’s programs.