Education Agency
7 nodes · kind (ufo)
An IRN-bearing entity that receives Ohio public education funding and is a unit of distribution in the state formula — a city, local, or exempted village school district, a joint vocational school district, a community (charter) school, or a STEM school. It is a Kind because the identity is rigid: an entity that ceases to be a chartered education agency ceases to exist as this thing, rather than persisting in another form. The contingent labels attached to agencies in this domain — property-poor, 20-mill-floor, DeRolph plaintiff, guarantee district — are Roles it plays, not what it is, and several are typically played at once.
THE RIGIDITY IS NOW EVIDENCED, AND THE FEDERAL REGISTER DENIES IT. Three Ohio districts ceased inside the window this repository holds — Bettsville into Old Fort in 2014, Ledgemont into Berkshire in 2015, Newbury into West Geauga in 2020 — each by a resolution of a county educational service center governing board under R.C. 3311.22, which transfers all of one district’s territory to an adjacent one. The order is the service center’s, not the State Board’s: the State Board appears in that section only as an appeal body, and none of these three was appealed. verified the audit reports that recite each resolution, and R.C. 3311.22
The federal Common Core of Data files all three as “closed with no effect on another agency’s
boundaries”, which is the negation of what happened, and files nothing at all on the receiving
agency. So an entity of this Kind can cease, its territory can move, and the national register
of these entities can record neither. verified dispersion::lea_directory
What the Revised Code makes rigid the reporting does not. That gap is the reason established
and any future ceased property must come from Ohio’s own record rather than from the
directory that is otherwise the canonical list of these agencies. inference
Nodes
| Cleveland Municipal School District | Ohio's largest urban district for most of the period covered here, and where the state's voucher channel began. Its valuation is large in absolute terms, so a wealth measure built on valuation alone does not classify it as poor. |
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| Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical Schools | A joint vocational school district drawing students and property tax from fifteen member districts across Franklin, Fairfield and Pickaway counties. It has no residents of its own, so its funding depends on decisions made by districts it does not control. |
| Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (closed) | A statewide online community school, once among the largest in the country, closed in 2018 after the department found it could not document participation for much of the enrollment it had been paid for. The case establishes what a funded pupil is. |
| Northern Local School District (Perry County) | A rural district in Ohio's Appalachian southeast, and the origin of DeRolph v. State — the named plaintiff attended Sheridan High School here. It is the concrete instance of the mechanism this whole domain is built to explain. |
| Perrysburg Exempted Village School District | An exempted village district across the Maumee from Toledo, and the more useful suburban contrast case precisely because it is not extraordinary: an ordinary well-off Ohio suburb spending below the statewide median per pupil. |
| Toledo City School District | Ohio's fourth-largest district, and the urban half of a pair with Perrysburg eleven miles away. High operating spending per pupil against low measured outcomes, which is the shape the poverty gradient takes in every Ohio comparison. |
| Upper Arlington City School District | A high-wealth suburban district in Franklin County, and the contrast case against Northern Local: the same constitutional entitlement, and revenue structures with almost nothing in common. Every mechanism here runs in the opposite direction. |
Properties
What a education agency may carry.
| Property | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| IRN | string | Information Retrieval Number; the stable statewide identifier for the agency |
| Kind of agency | string, one of city, local, exempted-village, joint-vocational, community, stem | The statutory kind of agency, which decides the rules it is funded on |
| County | string | Primary county of the agency's territory |
| Typology | string | Department typology grouping (rural, small town, suburban, urban) used for peer comparison |
| Established | date | Date the agency was chartered or organized, at the precision a source gives it — a year alone is common. No department file carries it: the district profile has no date column and the directory records only a system timestamp. It comes from an Auditor of State audit's organization note where one recites a date, and otherwise from the district's own history or a contemporary record of its organization, and the node's claim tag says which. An agency no source dates records it under unfilled: and stays in the baseline. |
| Roles | text | Contingent roles the agency plays or has played, each with the fiscal periods it applied |
| Series in the repository | string | Path under crates/ to this agency's committed per-fiscal-year numeric series |
Relationships
The edges this class may enter into. Out is declared by the node itself; in is declared by the node at the other end.
| Relationship | To | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Party to out | Litigation | The agency was a named plaintiff, defendant, or intervenor in the case |
| Merged into out | Education Agency | The agency this one was consolidated into; required to keep long series continuous |
| Peer of out | Education Agency | The agency is a comparison peer, by typology or by wealth position |
| Funded by in | Revenue Stream | A channel of money that reaches this agency |
| Loses funds to in | Funding Program | A program that diverts funds away from this agency |
| Measured by in | Metric | A defined measure computed over this agency's series |