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Hancock County
9 districts · 10,634 pupils · 4 at the 20-mill floor · richest 2.3× the poorest
All 88 counties, ordered by that ratio. The median Ohio district receives $5,910 per pupil in state aid in FY2027.
The spread inside Hancock County
Vanlue Local stands on 2.3× Liberty-Benton Local's tax base per pupil: $429,777 against $189,627. Every district in the county by the assessed valuation each of its pupils stands on — one dot each, poorest on the left. The shaded box is the middle half of them.
The values
- Liberty-Benton Local: $189,627 per pupil, $4,824 state aid per pupil
- Arlington Local: $198,549 per pupil, $10,324 state aid per pupil
- Riverdale Local: $200,846 per pupil, $7,768 state aid per pupil
- Findlay City: $239,331 per pupil, $4,319 state aid per pupil
- McComb Local: $260,955 per pupil, $9,861 state aid per pupil
- Cory-Rawson Local: $323,326 per pupil, $6,149 state aid per pupil
- Arcadia Local: $344,846 per pupil, $6,180 state aid per pupil
- Van Buren Local: $379,116 per pupil, $995 state aid per pupil
- Vanlue Local: $429,777 per pupil, $11,530 state aid per pupil
| District | Valuation per pupil | State aid per pupil | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanlue Local The most property wealth per pupil here |
$429,777 | $11,530 | 134 |
| Liberty-Benton Local The least |
$189,627 | $4,824 | 1,572 |
These four figures are the headline; the full comparison puts the two side by side on every measure the panel carries.
Where that sits among the 84 counties with more than one district reporting a tax base — one dot each, narrowest on the left, and the rule marked Hancock is this county. The median is 2.1× apart.
The values
- Adams: 1.1× between its richest and poorest district
- Carroll: 1.2× between its richest and poorest district
- Auglaize: 1.2× between its richest and poorest district
- Harrison: 1.2× between its richest and poorest district
- Morrow: 1.3× between its richest and poorest district
- Jackson: 1.3× between its richest and poorest district
- Meigs: 1.4× between its richest and poorest district
- Van Wert: 1.4× between its richest and poorest district
- Preble: 1.4× between its richest and poorest district
- Paulding: 1.5× between its richest and poorest district
- Greene: 1.5× between its richest and poorest district
- Champaign: 1.5× between its richest and poorest district
- Huron: 1.5× between its richest and poorest district
- Highland: 1.5× between its richest and poorest district
- Mercer: 1.5× between its richest and poorest district
- Pike: 1.6× between its richest and poorest district
- Geauga: 1.6× between its richest and poorest district
- Madison: 1.6× between its richest and poorest district
- Putnam: 1.6× between its richest and poorest district
- Medina: 1.6× between its richest and poorest district
- Gallia: 1.7× between its richest and poorest district
- Holmes: 1.7× between its richest and poorest district
- Clinton: 1.7× between its richest and poorest district
- Pickaway: 1.7× between its richest and poorest district
- Union: 1.7× between its richest and poorest district
- Henry: 1.7× between its richest and poorest district
- Sandusky: 1.7× between its richest and poorest district
- Darke: 1.8× between its richest and poorest district
- Williams: 1.8× between its richest and poorest district
- Shelby: 1.8× between its richest and poorest district
- Guernsey: 1.8× between its richest and poorest district
- Perry: 1.8× between its richest and poorest district
- Ashtabula: 1.8× between its richest and poorest district
- Warren: 1.8× between its richest and poorest district
- Delaware: 1.9× between its richest and poorest district
- Fayette: 1.9× between its richest and poorest district
- Fulton: 2.0× between its richest and poorest district
- Scioto: 2.0× between its richest and poorest district
- Washington: 2.0× between its richest and poorest district
- Clermont: 2.0× between its richest and poorest district
- Hardin: 2.1× between its richest and poorest district
- Wood: 2.1× between its richest and poorest district
- Muskingum: 2.1× between its richest and poorest district
- Brown: 2.1× between its richest and poorest district
- Erie: 2.1× between its richest and poorest district
- Tuscarawas: 2.2× between its richest and poorest district
- Hancock: 2.3× between its richest and poorest district
- Coshocton: 2.3× between its richest and poorest district
- Clark: 2.3× between its richest and poorest district
- Wyandot: 2.3× between its richest and poorest district
- Richland: 2.4× between its richest and poorest district
- Ashland: 2.4× between its richest and poorest district
- Miami: 2.4× between its richest and poorest district
- Lawrence: 2.4× between its richest and poorest district
- Logan: 2.5× between its richest and poorest district
- Belmont: 2.5× between its richest and poorest district
- Knox: 2.5× between its richest and poorest district
- Lucas: 2.6× between its richest and poorest district
- Portage: 2.6× between its richest and poorest district
- Ross: 2.6× between its richest and poorest district
- Licking: 2.6× between its richest and poorest district
- Marion: 2.6× between its richest and poorest district
- Seneca: 2.7× between its richest and poorest district
- Wayne: 2.8× between its richest and poorest district
- Noble: 2.8× between its richest and poorest district
- Fairfield: 2.9× between its richest and poorest district
- Allen: 3.0× between its richest and poorest district
- Butler: 3.0× between its richest and poorest district
- Stark: 3.2× between its richest and poorest district
- Defiance: 3.2× between its richest and poorest district
- Summit: 3.3× between its richest and poorest district
- Columbiana: 3.5× between its richest and poorest district
- Athens: 3.8× between its richest and poorest district
- Franklin: 3.9× between its richest and poorest district
- Mahoning: 4.4× between its richest and poorest district
- Lorain: 4.7× between its richest and poorest district
- Lake: 4.7× between its richest and poorest district
- Crawford: 4.9× between its richest and poorest district
- Trumbull: 5.1× between its richest and poorest district
- Montgomery: 5.3× between its richest and poorest district
- Hamilton: 5.3× between its richest and poorest district
- Cuyahoga: 5.5× between its richest and poorest district
- Jefferson: 6.5× between its richest and poorest district
- Ottawa: 7.4× between its richest and poorest district
Two districts in the same county, 2.3 times apart on the tax base each pupil stands on — $240,150 per pupil of assessed valuation. Every mill Liberty-Benton Local levies raises 0.44 of what the same mill raises in Vanlue Local, which is the disparity DeRolph was brought over and the reason the formula has an equalization term at all.
The formula does not answer it here. Vanlue Local has the larger tax base and receives $6,707 more state aid per pupil than Liberty-Benton Local. That is usually the guarantee, which holds a district at a historical amount regardless of what the formula now computes: neither district here is on it, so the cause is elsewhere — most often a difference in enrollment trend or in the categorical mix. Statewide, 294 districts are held above their formula amount.
9 districts
| District | Pupils | Valuation per pupil, FY2024 | State aid per pupil | Spending per pupil, FY2024 | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arcadia Local | 576 | $344,846 | $6,180 | $14,587 | on formula |
| Arlington Local | 610 | $198,549 | $10,324 | $13,468 | at the 20-mill floor |
| Cory-Rawson Local | 491 | $323,326 | $6,149 | $20,057 | at the 20-mill floor |
| Findlay City | 4,735 | $239,331 | $4,319 | $15,542 | on formula |
| Liberty-Benton Local | 1,572 | $189,627 | $4,824 | $11,041 | on formula |
| McComb Local | 600 | $260,955 | $9,861 | $17,514 | at the 20-mill floor |
| Riverdale Local | 898 | $200,846 | $7,768 | $12,993 | at the 20-mill floor |
| Van Buren Local | 1,018 | $379,116 | $995 | $14,502 | at the minimum state share |
| Vanlue Local | 134 | $429,777 | $11,530 | $23,907 | on formula |
10,634 pupils across the districts listed, and that is a sum of these districts rather than a count of the county's children — Ohio school district boundaries cross county lines, so some of these pupils live elsewhere and some of the county's live in districts on another page. The department attributes each district to one county and this page inherits that attribution; it is a peer group, not a boundary.
Median state aid here is $6,180 per pupil, against $5,910 statewide. None is on the guarantee, which is unusual: 48% of Ohio districts are. 4 are at or below the 20-mill floor, where H.B. 920's reduction factors stop operating and a reappraisal raises revenue again.
Who gained, who lost
On total state support from FY2025 to FY2027, 7 of the 9 districts here rose and 2 fell. Every district here in the three years, on the measure selected. FY2025 is the department's final payment report; FY2026 and FY2027 are its models of those years, not payments. Changes are percentages of each district's own earlier year, so a city and a village read on one scale. Every figure is in nominal dollars.
On total state support:
- FY2025 to FY2026: of 9, 9 rose, 0 fell.
- FY2026 to FY2027: of 9, 5 rose, 4 fell. The 4 that fell: Cory-Rawson Local, Findlay City, Riverdale Local and Van Buren Local.
- FY2025 to FY2027: of 9, 7 rose, 2 fell. The 2 that fell: Cory-Rawson Local and Findlay City.
The values
- Arlington Local: +26.5% (+$1,430,479) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
- Arcadia Local: +14.4% (+$505,926) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
- McComb Local: +13.2% (+$750,123) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
- Liberty-Benton Local: +11.5% (+$921,929) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
- Vanlue Local: +10.4% (+$164,504) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
- Van Buren Local: +9.7% (+$143,467) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
- Riverdale Local: +1.8% (+$137,260) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
- Cory-Rawson Local: −1.9% (−$68,074) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
- Findlay City: −2.6% (−$617,873) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
| Arlington Local | $5,388,657 | $6,139,817 | $6,819,136 | +13.9% +$751,160 | +11.1% +$679,319 | +26.5% +$1,430,479 |
53.4% | 51.2% | Foundation aid +$1,219,023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arcadia Local | $3,503,094 | $3,635,797 | $4,009,020 | +3.8% +$132,703 | +10.3% +$373,223 | +14.4% +$505,926 |
33.4% | 31.5% | Foundation aid +$400,884 |
| McComb Local | $5,691,659 | $6,032,682 | $6,441,782 | +6.0% +$341,023 | +6.8% +$409,100 | +13.2% +$750,123 |
48.4% | 44.8% | Foundation aid +$719,708 |
| Liberty-Benton Local | $8,030,427 | $8,221,800 | $8,952,356 | +2.4% +$191,373 | +8.9% +$730,556 | +11.5% +$921,929 |
44.5% | 41.7% | Enrollment growth supplement +$392,922 |
| Vanlue Local | $1,585,158 | $1,684,002 | $1,749,662 | +6.2% +$98,845 | +3.9% +$65,660 | +10.4% +$164,504 |
51.5% | 48.7% | Foundation aid +$146,467 |
| Van Buren Local | $1,485,156 | $1,633,431 | $1,628,623 | +10.0% +$148,275 | −0.3% −$4,808 | +9.7% +$143,467 |
10.0% | 10.0% the minimum |
Transportation +$64,583 |
| Riverdale Local | $7,699,614 | $7,892,871 | $7,836,874 | +2.5% +$193,257 | −0.7% −$55,997 | +1.8% +$137,260 |
49.7% | 46.0% | Foundation aid +$142,722 |
| Cory-Rawson Local | $3,519,090 | $3,783,971 | $3,451,017 | +7.5% +$264,880 | −8.8% −$332,954 | −1.9% −$68,074 |
34.5% | 29.5% | Foundation aid −$141,997 |
| Findlay City | $24,073,863 | $24,747,383 | $23,455,990 | +2.8% +$673,520 | −5.2% −$1,291,393 | −2.6% −$617,873 |
39.1% | 35.5% | Foundation aid −$1,500,576 |
On foundation aid:
- FY2025 to FY2026: of 9, 9 rose, 0 fell.
- FY2026 to FY2027: of 9, 5 rose, 4 fell. The 4 that fell: Cory-Rawson Local, Findlay City, Riverdale Local and Van Buren Local.
- FY2025 to FY2027: of 9, 6 rose, 3 fell. The 3 that fell: Cory-Rawson Local, Findlay City and Van Buren Local.
The values
- Arlington Local: +24.0% (+$1,219,023) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
- McComb Local: +13.8% (+$719,708) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
- Arcadia Local: +12.7% (+$400,884) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
- Vanlue Local: +10.4% (+$146,467) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
- Liberty-Benton Local: +4.2% (+$302,981) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
- Riverdale Local: +2.1% (+$142,722) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
- Van Buren Local: −2.6% (−$26,865) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
- Cory-Rawson Local: −4.5% (−$141,997) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
- Findlay City: −6.8% (−$1,500,576) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
| Arlington Local | $5,080,715 | $5,631,987 | $6,299,737 | +10.9% +$551,272 | +11.9% +$667,751 | +24.0% +$1,219,023 |
53.4% | 51.2% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McComb Local | $5,199,223 | $5,482,303 | $5,918,931 | +5.4% +$283,080 | +8.0% +$436,628 | +13.8% +$719,708 |
48.4% | 44.8% |
| Arcadia Local | $3,157,414 | $3,195,692 | $3,558,298 | +1.2% +$38,278 | +11.3% +$362,606 | +12.7% +$400,884 |
33.4% | 31.5% |
| Vanlue Local | $1,404,293 | $1,490,133 | $1,550,760 | +6.1% +$85,840 | +4.1% +$60,627 | +10.4% +$146,467 |
51.5% | 48.7% |
| Liberty-Benton Local | $7,278,073 | $7,312,874 | $7,581,054 | +0.5% +$34,801 | +3.7% +$268,179 | +4.2% +$302,981 |
44.5% | 41.7% |
| Riverdale Local | $6,831,262 | $6,989,116 | $6,973,984 | +2.3% +$157,854 | −0.2% −$15,131 | +2.1% +$142,722 |
49.7% | 46.0% |
| Van Buren Local | $1,039,424 | $1,046,599 | $1,012,559 | +0.7% +$7,175 | −3.3% −$34,040 | −2.6% −$26,865 |
10.0% | 10.0% the minimum |
| Cory-Rawson Local | $3,162,421 | $3,370,912 | $3,020,423 | +6.6% +$208,491 | −10.4% −$350,489 | −4.5% −$141,997 |
34.5% | 29.5% |
| Findlay City | $21,951,879 | $21,976,799 | $20,451,303 | +0.1% +$24,920 | −6.9% −$1,525,496 | −6.8% −$1,500,576 |
39.1% | 35.5% |
The two measures can disagree in sign. Total state support is every line the department pays a district through; foundation aid is core foundation funding and the guarantee alone, and a district held at its base does not move on it whatever its other lines do. Each district's name opens its change tab, which splits its own figures by line.
State share, from FY2026 to FY2027, falls in 8 of the 9 districts here. Van Buren Local is at the formula's minimum state share in FY2027. It is the part of base cost the state pays after a district's local capacity is charged, so it reaches the dollars through foundation aid; the FY2025 payment report does not publish it.
The same steps for every district in Ohio, one provision at a time — the supplement H.B. 96 repealed, the new count in DPIA, reappraisal through local capacity and the phase-in — are on What changed.
A district whose territory crosses a county line is filed under the one county the department assigns it, so it appears on that county's page and on no other.