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Elyria City Schools

What moved this district's funding from FY2025 to FY2027, line by line — on total state support, and on the foundation aid this site models — and where it sits among its county's districts.

Across Lorain County Contents

FY2026 and FY2027 models, nominal dollars

On total state support, Elyria City Schools moved 0.0% (−$3,429) from FY2026 to FY2027: the 6th-largest fall of 14 in Lorain County.

Columbia LocalAvon Lake CityAvon LocalSheffield-SheffieldLake CityOberlin City SchoolsFirelands LocalKeystone LocalAmherst ExemptedVillageMidview LocalWellingtonExempted VillageNorth Ridgeville CityLorain CityClearview LocalElyria CitySchools+4.4%0.0%−5.8%
Columbia LocalAvon Lake CityAvon LocalSheffield-Sheffield Lake CityOberlin City SchoolsFirelands LocalKeystone LocalAmherst Exempted VillageMidview LocalWellington Exempted VillageNorth Ridgeville CityLorain CityClearview LocalElyria City Schools+4.4%0.0%−5.8%
Columbia LocalAvon Lake CityAvon LocalSheffield-Sheffield Lake CityOberlin City SchoolsFirelands LocalKeystone LocalAmherst Exempted VillageMidview LocalWellington Exempted VillageNorth Ridgeville CityLorain CityClearview LocalElyria City Schools+4.4%0.0%−5.8%
The values
  • Columbia Local: +4.4% (+$130,119) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Avon Lake City: +4.3% (+$202,737) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Avon Local: +3.1% (+$196,848) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City: +1.9% (+$103,381) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Oberlin City Schools: +0.8% (+$27,997) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Firelands Local: +0.8% (+$67,896) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Keystone Local: +0.5% (+$32,780) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Amherst Exempted Village: +0.4% (+$54,594) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Elyria City Schools: 0.0% (−$3,429) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Midview Local: 0.0% (−$2,696) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Wellington Exempted Village: −0.3% (−$12,778) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • North Ridgeville City: −0.3% (−$42,303) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Lorain City: −0.7% (−$446,799) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Clearview Local: −5.8% (−$898,538) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027

On foundation aid, Elyria City Schools moved +0.7% (+$269,294) from FY2026 to FY2027: the largest rise of 14 in Lorain County.

Avon Lake CityNorth Ridgeville CityOberlin City SchoolsSheffield-SheffieldLake CityWellingtonExempted VillageColumbia LocalKeystone LocalMidview LocalFirelands LocalLorain CityAvon LocalAmherst ExemptedVillageClearview LocalElyria CitySchools+0.7%−6.0%
Avon Lake CityNorth Ridgeville CityOberlin City SchoolsSheffield-Sheffield Lake CityWellington Exempted VillageColumbia LocalKeystone LocalMidview LocalFirelands LocalLorain CityAvon LocalAmherst Exempted VillageClearview LocalElyria City Schools+0.7%−6.0%
Avon Lake CityNorth Ridgeville CityOberlin City SchoolsSheffield-Sheffield Lake CityWellington Exempted VillageColumbia LocalKeystone LocalMidview LocalFirelands LocalLorain CityAvon LocalAmherst Exempted VillageClearview LocalElyria City Schools+0.7%−6.0%
The values
  • Elyria City Schools: +0.7% (+$269,294) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Avon Lake City: +0.3% (+$7,357) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • North Ridgeville City: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Oberlin City Schools: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Wellington Exempted Village: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Columbia Local: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Keystone Local: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Midview Local: −0.4% (−$41,308) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Firelands Local: −0.7% (−$50,191) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Lorain City: −0.8% (−$487,506) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Avon Local: −1.7% (−$63,520) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Amherst Exempted Village: −2.7% (−$357,431) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Clearview Local: −6.0% (−$894,421) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027

Every district the department attributes to Lorain County, as a percentage of its own FY2026 figure, so a city and a village can be read on one scale. The two measures can rank the same county in different orders: a district held at its base does not move on foundation aid at all, whatever its other lines do.

By line Contents

Every line the department pays this district through, in the three years. Total state support, the last row, is all of them; foundation aid, the first, is the narrow measure — core foundation funding and the guarantee, the part this site models. FY2025 is the department's final payment report; FY2026 and FY2027 are its models of those years, not payments. Every figure is in nominal dollars.

Line FY2025 paidFY2026 modelFY2027 model FY2026 to FY2027
Foundation aid (the narrow measure)$38,721,420$39,116,272$39,385,566+$269,294
Transportation$2,025,916$1,975,840$1,782,485−$193,356
Special education transportation$661,031$760,454$652,181−$108,273
Preschool special education$1,057,824$1,106,486$1,066,699−$39,787
Supplemental targeted assistance (repealed by H.B. 96)$0$0$0$0
Formula transition supplement$0$0$0$0
Base funding supplement$0$145,048$213,740+$68,692
Enrollment growth supplement$0$0$0$0
Performance supplement$0$0$0$0
Total state support (the wide measure)$42,466,191$43,104,100$43,100,671−$3,429

The lines sum to total state support in every year, to within cent rounding. Supplemental targeted assistance keeps its row after FY2025 because its going is part of the change: H.B. 96 repealed it, and the base funding and enrollment growth supplements it created are separate lines, not its replacement under another name.

The phase-in Contents

Foundation aid is paid as the funding base plus the The share of the gap between what the formula computes and a district's older base that is actually paid. A district below its base is held at the base, so a higher phase-in does not reach it.'s share of the gap between what the formula calculates and that base, and the guarantee holds it up where the result would fall. These are the department's own three figures for each year. FY2025 is the department's final payment report; FY2026 and FY2027 are its models of those years, not payments. Every figure is in nominal dollars.

Stage FY2025 paidFY2026 modelFY2027 model
Funding base$28,824,298$28,824,298$28,824,298
Calculated by the formula$43,669,239$41,175,161$39,385,566
Paid through the phase-in$38,721,420$39,116,272$39,385,566
Guarantee$0$0$0
Foundation aid$38,721,420$39,116,272$39,385,566
  • FY2025: +$9,897,123 above its base. The formula calculates $43,669,239, $14,844,942 over a $28,824,298 base, and the phase-in pays $9,897,123 of that gap.
  • FY2026: +$10,291,975 above its base. The formula calculates $41,175,161, $12,350,864 over a $28,824,298 base, and the phase-in pays $10,291,975 of that gap.
  • FY2027: +$10,561,269 above its base. The formula calculates $39,385,566, $10,561,269 over a $28,824,298 base, and the phase-in pays $10,561,269 of that gap.

The phase-in statewide counts the districts paid exactly their base in each year, which a higher rate does not reach, and what it paid above everyone else's.

What moved underneath Contents

Three inputs and the measure each reaches the dollars through. The files publish the inputs and the payment but not how much of the payment's change each input is, so nothing here divides the change between them. The FY2025 payment report carries no capacity inputs at all, so state share and enrollment start at FY2026. Dollar figures are in nominal dollars.

  • State share went from 55.5% in FY2026 to 51.5% in FY2027. It is the part of base cost the state pays after the district's local capacity is charged, so it reaches the dollars through foundation aid, which moved +$269,294 over the same two years. Reappraisal and the state share sets the fall beside every district's valuation change, by the share it started at.
  • Assessed valuation went from $992,988,700 in tax year 2023 to $1,307,441,313 in tax year 2025 (+31.7%). Valuation is the larger part of local capacity, which is what sets the state share above — the route by which a reappraisal reaches foundation aid at all.
  • Enrolled ADM went from 5,372.1 in FY2026 to 5,343.5 in FY2027, as each year's file states it (−0.5%). Base cost is computed per pupil, so enrollment reaches the dollars through the formula's calculated figure on the phase-in card.

Transfers and net funding Contents

What the department deducts from total state support before it pays the district — the educational service center's charge and other adjustments — and what is left. FY2025's report publishes the transfers as one total; FY2027's itemizes them; FY2026's publishes none, and that column says so rather than showing a zero. FY2025 is the department's final payment report; FY2026 and FY2027 are its models of those years, not payments. Every figure is in nominal dollars.

FY2025 paidFY2026 modelFY2027 model
Total state support$42,466,191$43,104,100$43,100,671
Service center chargenot itemizednot published−$37,161
Other adjustmentsnot itemizednot published−$433,669
Transfers, in total−$511,820not published−$470,830
Net state funding$41,954,371not published$42,629,842