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Medina County
7 districts · 23,625 pupils · 7 on the guarantee · richest 1.6× 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 Medina County
Cloverleaf Local stands on 1.6× Wadsworth City's tax base per pupil: $422,183 against $257,278. Every district in the county by the assessed valuation each of its pupils stands on — one dot each, poorest on the left.
The values
- Wadsworth City: $257,278 per pupil, $4,232 state aid per pupil
- Brunswick City: $282,822 per pupil, $4,280 state aid per pupil
- Medina City SD: $328,869 per pupil, $2,806 state aid per pupil
- Black River Local: $346,295 per pupil, $5,919 state aid per pupil
- Highland Local: $397,776 per pupil, $1,130 state aid per pupil
- Buckeye Local: $412,569 per pupil, $2,520 state aid per pupil
- Cloverleaf Local: $422,183 per pupil, $3,147 state aid per pupil
| District | Valuation per pupil | State aid per pupil | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloverleaf Local The most property wealth per pupil here |
$422,183 | $3,147 | 2,323 |
| Wadsworth City The least |
$257,278 | $4,232 | 4,010 |
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 Medina 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, 1.6 times apart on the tax base each pupil stands on — $164,905 per pupil of assessed valuation. Every mill Wadsworth City levies raises 0.61 of what the same mill raises in Cloverleaf Local, which is the disparity DeRolph was brought over and the reason the formula has an equalization term at all.
The formula answers it here: Wadsworth City receives $1,086 more state aid per pupil than Cloverleaf Local. Whether that closes the gap is a different question from whether it points the right way — $164,905 of valuation per pupil is not repaired by $1,086 of aid. Statewide, 294 districts are held above their formula amount.
7 districts
| District | Pupils | Valuation per pupil, FY2024 | State aid per pupil | Spending per pupil, FY2024 | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black River Local | 890 | $346,295 | $5,919 | $19,361 | on the guarantee · at the minimum state share |
| Brunswick City | 5,618 | $282,822 | $4,280 | $14,784 | on the guarantee |
| Buckeye Local | 1,926 | $412,569 | $2,520 | $13,331 | on the guarantee · at the minimum state share |
| Cloverleaf Local | 2,323 | $422,183 | $3,147 | $16,785 | on the guarantee · at the minimum state share |
| Highland Local | 3,215 | $397,776 | $1,130 | $12,627 | on the guarantee · at the minimum state share |
| Medina City SD | 5,643 | $328,869 | $2,806 | $16,057 | on the guarantee · at the minimum state share |
| Wadsworth City | 4,010 | $257,278 | $4,232 | $15,006 | on the guarantee |
23,625 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 $3,147 per pupil, against $5,910 statewide. 7 of 7 are on the guarantee, against 48% of the state.
Who gained, who lost
On total state support from FY2025 to FY2027, 7 of the 7 districts here rose and 0 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 7, 7 rose, 0 fell.
- FY2026 to FY2027: of 7, 7 rose, 0 fell.
- FY2025 to FY2027: of 7, 7 rose, 0 fell.
The values
- Highland Local: +14.4% (+$813,650) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
- Cloverleaf Local: +13.1% (+$1,186,811) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
- Buckeye Local: +8.2% (+$486,703) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
- Medina City SD: +6.7% (+$1,224,337) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
- Brunswick City: +5.4% (+$1,467,011) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
- Wadsworth City: +2.6% (+$483,870) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
- Black River Local: +1.7% (+$112,719) in total state support, FY2025 to FY2027
| Highland Local | $5,661,655 | $6,315,045 | $6,475,304 | +11.5% +$653,390 | +2.5% +$160,260 | +14.4% +$813,650 |
10.0% | 10.0% the minimum |
Transportation +$326,263 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloverleaf Local | $9,052,680 | $9,510,219 | $10,239,490 | +5.1% +$457,539 | +7.7% +$729,271 | +13.1% +$1,186,811 |
10.0% | 10.0% the minimum |
Enrollment growth supplement +$580,850 |
| Buckeye Local | $5,922,061 | $6,242,482 | $6,408,764 | +5.4% +$320,421 | +2.7% +$166,282 | +8.2% +$486,703 |
10.0% | 10.0% the minimum |
Transportation +$233,392 |
| Medina City SD | $18,310,961 | $19,252,722 | $19,535,297 | +5.1% +$941,761 | +1.5% +$282,576 | +6.7% +$1,224,337 |
10.0% | 10.0% the minimum |
Transportation +$501,872 |
| Brunswick City | $27,059,835 | $28,039,313 | $28,526,846 | +3.6% +$979,478 | +1.7% +$487,533 | +5.4% +$1,467,011 |
18.5% | 10.9% | Transportation +$644,330 |
| Wadsworth City | $18,526,662 | $18,937,156 | $19,010,532 | +2.2% +$410,494 | +0.4% +$73,376 | +2.6% +$483,870 |
29.0% | 22.8% | Formula transition supplement −$237,767 |
| Black River Local | $6,452,322 | $6,551,684 | $6,565,042 | +1.5% +$99,362 | +0.2% +$13,357 | +1.7% +$112,719 |
17.3% | 10.0% the minimum |
Transportation +$160,998 |
On foundation aid:
- FY2025 to FY2026: of 7, 0 rose, 0 fell, 7 did not move.
- FY2026 to FY2027: of 7, 0 rose, 0 fell, 7 did not move.
- FY2025 to FY2027: of 7, 0 rose, 0 fell, 7 did not move.
The values
- Black River Local: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
- Brunswick City: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
- Buckeye Local: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
- Cloverleaf Local: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
- Highland Local: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
- Medina City SD: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
- Wadsworth City: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2025 to FY2027
| Black River Local | $5,269,541 | $5,269,541 | $5,269,541 | 0.0% $0 | 0.0% $0 | 0.0% $0 |
17.3% | 10.0% the minimum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brunswick City | $24,044,074 | $24,044,074 | $24,044,074 | 0.0% $0 | 0.0% $0 | 0.0% $0 |
18.5% | 10.9% |
| Buckeye Local | $4,854,311 | $4,854,311 | $4,854,311 | 0.0% $0 | 0.0% $0 | 0.0% $0 |
10.0% | 10.0% the minimum |
| Cloverleaf Local | $7,310,961 | $7,310,961 | $7,310,961 | 0.0% $0 | 0.0% $0 | 0.0% $0 |
10.0% | 10.0% the minimum |
| Highland Local | $3,633,284 | $3,633,284 | $3,633,284 | 0.0% $0 | 0.0% $0 | 0.0% $0 |
10.0% | 10.0% the minimum |
| Medina City SD | $15,831,957 | $15,831,957 | $15,831,957 | 0.0% $0 | 0.0% $0 | 0.0% $0 |
10.0% | 10.0% the minimum |
| Wadsworth City | $16,971,303 | $16,971,303 | $16,971,303 | 0.0% $0 | 0.0% $0 | 0.0% $0 |
29.0% | 22.8% |
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 4 of the 7 districts here. Black River Local, Buckeye Local, Cloverleaf Local, Highland Local and Medina City SD are 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.