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Fairfield City

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 Butler County Contents

FY2026 and FY2027 models, nominal dollars

On total state support, Fairfield City moved −7.4% (−$2,927,316) from FY2026 to FY2027: the 2nd-largest fall of 10 in Butler County.

New Miami LocalMonroe LocalMiddletown CityLakota LocalRoss LocalTalawanda CityHamilton CityEdgewood CityMadison LocalFairfield City+16.3%−7.4%−7.8%
New Miami LocalMonroe LocalMiddletown CityLakota LocalRoss LocalTalawanda CityHamilton CityEdgewood CityMadison LocalFairfield City+16.3%−7.4%−7.8%
New Miami LocalMonroe LocalMiddletown CityLakota LocalRoss LocalTalawanda CityHamilton CityEdgewood CityMadison LocalFairfield City+16.3%−7.4%−7.8%
The values
  • New Miami Local: +16.3% (+$1,436,761) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Monroe Local: +7.2% (+$1,097,836) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Middletown City: +6.8% (+$3,628,599) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Lakota Local: +1.8% (+$994,606) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Ross Local: +1.8% (+$195,567) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Talawanda City: +1.4% (+$133,548) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Hamilton City: +0.8% (+$710,815) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Edgewood City: −4.9% (−$985,524) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Fairfield City: −7.4% (−$2,927,316) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Madison Local: −7.8% (−$801,523) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027

On foundation aid, Fairfield City moved −11.1% (−$3,584,907) from FY2026 to FY2027: the largest fall of 10 in Butler County.

New Miami LocalMiddletown CityMonroe LocalHamilton CityRoss LocalTalawanda CityLakota LocalEdgewood CityMadison LocalFairfield City+15.7%−11.1%
New Miami LocalMiddletown CityMonroe LocalHamilton CityRoss LocalTalawanda CityLakota LocalEdgewood CityMadison LocalFairfield City+15.7%−11.1%
New Miami LocalMiddletown CityMonroe LocalHamilton CityRoss LocalTalawanda CityLakota LocalEdgewood CityMadison LocalFairfield City+15.7%−11.1%
The values
  • New Miami Local: +15.7% (+$1,297,444) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Middletown City: +6.2% (+$2,932,472) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Monroe Local: +6.1% (+$828,835) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Hamilton City: +0.8% (+$625,252) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Ross Local: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Talawanda City: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Lakota Local: −0.4% (−$184,821) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Edgewood City: −6.0% (−$1,109,520) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Madison Local: −8.3% (−$770,137) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Fairfield City: −11.1% (−$3,584,907) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027

Every district the department attributes to Butler 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)$34,279,744$32,249,271$28,664,364−$3,584,907
Transportation$3,727,972$4,303,823$4,922,810+$618,987
Special education transportation$817,889$1,114,837$1,107,226−$7,610
Preschool special education$1,011,848$1,046,167$995,210−$50,957
Supplemental targeted assistance (repealed by H.B. 96)$0$0$0$0
Formula transition supplement$0$0$0$0
Base funding supplement$0$229,308$333,960+$104,652
Enrollment growth supplement$0$0$0$0
Performance supplement$0$441,630$434,148−$7,482
Total state support (the wide measure)$39,837,453$39,385,034$36,457,718−$2,927,316

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$28,664,364$28,664,364$28,664,364
Calculated by the formula$37,087,014$32,966,424$28,324,523
Paid through the phase-in$34,279,744$32,249,271$28,324,523
Guarantee$0$0$339,841
Foundation aid$34,279,744$32,249,271$28,664,364
  • FY2025: +$5,615,380 above its base. The formula calculates $37,087,014, $8,422,649 over a $28,664,364 base, and the phase-in pays $5,615,380 of that gap.
  • FY2026: +$3,584,907 above its base. The formula calculates $32,966,424, $4,302,060 over a $28,664,364 base, and the phase-in pays $3,584,907 of that gap.
  • FY2027: at its base. The formula calculates $28,324,523 against a $28,664,364 base, and foundation aid is the base itself — the guarantee pays the $339,841 the phase-in leaves short. A higher phase-in rate would not reach it.

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 31.9% in FY2026 to 26.5% 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 −$3,584,907 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 $2,316,859,300 in tax year 2023 to $2,350,727,356 in tax year 2025 (+1.5%). 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 8,492.9 in FY2026 to 8,349.0 in FY2027, as each year's file states it (−1.7%). Base cost is computed per pupil, so enrollment reaches the dollars through the formula's calculated figure on the phase-in card.

This district is at its base in FY2027, so none of the three reaches its foundation aid that year: whatever they did, the guarantee paid the difference.

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$39,837,453$39,385,034$36,457,718
Service center chargenot itemizednot published−$57,746
Other adjustmentsnot itemizednot published−$399,231
Transfers, in total−$486,562not published−$456,977
Net state funding$39,350,892not published$36,000,741