Ohio school funding
What Ohio pays each of its 609 school districts, what the formula says it should, and what a different decision would do. The state pays $7.28B in foundation aid in FY2027, and 294 districts are funded by the guarantee rather than by the formula — the statewide view is where that is laid out.
Find a district
All 609 are in the district index, which sorts and filters by name or IRN. These are the ones most often asked about.
Three questions this site is built to answer
| What does my district get, and why? | One page per district, with the formula's answer beside the one it receives. |
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| Who would a change actually reach? | Move a lever and re-run the formula across all 609 districts, with the count it fails to reach beside the total it costs. |
| Does any of it show up in outcomes? | Poverty explains Ohio's attainment measure at −0.846. Every other association on this site is shown against that. |
Every counterfactual on this site is computed rather than quoted, and checked against a second implementation of the formula before the site is allowed to build: each reference scenario has to reproduce to within a dollar across seven billion, or there is no deploy. How that works.
Every section of the site
| Find a district | All 609, by name or IRN, each with the formula's answer beside the one it receives. |
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| Places | All of Ohio at once, every county, both legislative chambers — and any two districts side by side. |
| Analysis | What this site worked out from all of it — and, as loudly, what none of it claims. |
| Change the formula | Move a lever and re-run the formula for every district: what changes, and who it reaches. |
| Library | The statute, the formula and every other class of the corpus these pages are generated from, with its sources and decisions. |
| About | How every figure here is made and checked, and the data itself as files. |