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Liberty Local

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 Trumbull County Contents

FY2026 and FY2027 models, nominal dollars

On total state support, Liberty Local moved −3.8% (−$191,917) from FY2026 to FY2027: the 3rd-largest fall of 20 in Trumbull County.

Weathersfield LocalBrookfield LocalMcDonald LocalMaplewood LocalNiles CityWarren CityLaBrae LocalGirard City SchoolDistrictHowland LocalLakeview LocalNewton FallsExempted VillageBristol LocalJoseph Badger LocalSouthington LocalHubbard ExemptedVillageChampion LocalMathews LocalBloomfield-MespoLocalLordstown LocalLiberty Local+6.8%−3.8%−13.1%
Weathersfield LocalBrookfield LocalMcDonald LocalMaplewood LocalNiles CityWarren CityLaBrae LocalGirard City School DistrictHowland LocalLakeview LocalNewton Falls Exempted VillageBristol LocalJoseph Badger LocalSouthington LocalHubbard Exempted VillageChampion LocalMathews LocalBloomfield-Mespo LocalLordstown LocalLiberty Local+6.8%−3.8%−13.1%
Weathersfield LocalBrookfield LocalMcDonald LocalMaplewood LocalNiles CityWarren CityLaBrae LocalGirard City School DistrictHowland LocalLakeview LocalNewton Falls Exempted VillageBristol LocalJoseph Badger LocalSouthington LocalHubbard Exempted VillageChampion LocalMathews LocalBloomfield-Mespo LocalLordstown LocalLiberty Local+6.8%−3.8%−13.1%
The values
  • Weathersfield Local: +6.8% (+$588,424) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Brookfield Local: +3.6% (+$330,918) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • McDonald Local: +2.3% (+$196,427) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Maplewood Local: +2.2% (+$143,718) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Niles City: +1.7% (+$306,943) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Warren City: +1.7% (+$925,836) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • LaBrae Local: +1.3% (+$136,613) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Girard City School District: +0.9% (+$142,904) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Howland Local: +0.5% (+$33,977) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Lakeview Local: +0.4% (+$27,719) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Newton Falls Exempted Village: +0.3% (+$27,443) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Bristol Local: +0.1% (+$2,488) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Joseph Badger Local: −0.8% (−$36,563) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Southington Local: −2.2% (−$85,438) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Hubbard Exempted Village: −2.7% (−$306,612) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Champion Local: −3.4% (−$255,471) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Mathews Local: −3.7% (−$88,482) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Liberty Local: −3.8% (−$191,917) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Bloomfield-Mespo Local: −7.2% (−$138,904) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Lordstown Local: −13.1% (−$208,655) in total state support, FY2026 to FY2027

On foundation aid, Liberty Local moved −18.1% (−$816,472) from FY2026 to FY2027: the 2nd-largest fall of 20 in Trumbull County.

Weathersfield LocalBrookfield LocalMaplewood LocalMcDonald LocalWarren CityNiles CityLaBrae LocalGirard City SchoolDistrictNewton FallsExempted VillageBristol LocalHowland LocalLakeview LocalSouthington LocalHubbard ExemptedVillageJoseph Badger LocalChampion LocalMathews LocalBloomfield-MespoLocalLordstown LocalLiberty Local+7.2%−18.1%−20.1%
Weathersfield LocalBrookfield LocalMaplewood LocalMcDonald LocalWarren CityNiles CityLaBrae LocalGirard City School DistrictNewton Falls Exempted VillageBristol LocalHowland LocalLakeview LocalSouthington LocalHubbard Exempted VillageJoseph Badger LocalChampion LocalMathews LocalBloomfield-Mespo LocalLordstown LocalLiberty Local+7.2%−18.1%−20.1%
Weathersfield LocalBrookfield LocalMaplewood LocalMcDonald LocalWarren CityNiles CityLaBrae LocalGirard City School DistrictNewton Falls Exempted VillageBristol LocalHowland LocalLakeview LocalSouthington LocalHubbard Exempted VillageJoseph Badger LocalChampion LocalMathews LocalBloomfield-Mespo LocalLordstown LocalLiberty Local+7.2%−18.1%−20.1%
The values
  • Weathersfield Local: +7.2% (+$579,088) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Brookfield Local: +4.6% (+$386,289) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Maplewood Local: +2.7% (+$156,587) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • McDonald Local: +2.3% (+$190,099) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Warren City: +1.8% (+$926,408) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Niles City: +1.7% (+$287,185) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • LaBrae Local: +1.3% (+$125,971) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Girard City School District: +1.0% (+$141,920) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Newton Falls Exempted Village: +0.4% (+$32,902) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Bristol Local: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Howland Local: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Lakeview Local: 0.0% ($0) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Southington Local: −1.8% (−$66,023) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Hubbard Exempted Village: −2.7% (−$278,605) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Joseph Badger Local: −3.5% (−$138,614) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Champion Local: −5.0% (−$345,151) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Mathews Local: −6.1% (−$114,531) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Bloomfield-Mespo Local: −8.7% (−$144,649) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Liberty Local: −18.1% (−$816,472) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027
  • Lordstown Local: −20.1% (−$281,252) in foundation aid, FY2026 to FY2027

Every district the department attributes to Trumbull 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)$4,855,562$4,514,711$3,698,239−$816,472
Transportation$379,833$379,833$418,004+$38,172
Special education transportation$20,881$28,462$35,120+$6,658
Preschool special education$120,566$125,375$119,740−$5,635
Supplemental targeted assistance (repealed by H.B. 96)$0$0$0$0
Formula transition supplement$0$0$572,796+$572,796
Base funding supplement$0$28,670$41,234+$12,564
Enrollment growth supplement$0$0$0$0
Performance supplement$0$0$0$0
Total state support (the wide measure)$5,376,841$5,077,050$4,885,133−$191,917

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$3,660,441$3,660,441$3,660,441
Calculated by the formula$5,453,033$4,685,606$3,698,239
Paid through the phase-in$4,855,562$4,514,711$3,698,239
Guarantee$0$0$0
Foundation aid$4,855,562$4,514,711$3,698,239
  • FY2025: +$1,195,121 above its base. The formula calculates $5,453,033, $1,792,592 over a $3,660,441 base, and the phase-in pays $1,195,121 of that gap.
  • FY2026: +$854,270 above its base. The formula calculates $4,685,606, $1,025,165 over a $3,660,441 base, and the phase-in pays $854,270 of that gap.
  • FY2027: +$37,798 above its base. The formula calculates $3,698,239, $37,798 over a $3,660,441 base, and the phase-in pays $37,798 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 31.6% in FY2026 to 23.0% 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 −$816,472 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 $323,144,470 in tax year 2023 to $326,432,055 in tax year 2025 (+1.0%). 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 1,061.8 in FY2026 to 1,030.9 in FY2027, as each year's file states it (−2.9%). 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$5,376,841$5,077,050$4,885,133
Service center chargenot itemizednot published−$1,419,238
Other adjustmentsnot itemizednot published−$57,417
Transfers, in total−$1,826,453not published−$1,476,655
Net state funding$3,550,388not published$3,408,479