Auxiliary Services

GRF line item 200511, and the oldest of the three lines the department groups as Category 3: Nonpublic School Support. The money is divided among the chartered nonpublic schools by a per-pupil quotient and spent on a list of secular services — textbooks, health and guidance services, speech and hearing services, remedial programs, computer equipment, school safety and security — that R.C. 3317.06 sets out in seventeen severable divisions. verified crates/project

The section the line is named for does not allocate it. R.C. 3317.06 opens “Moneys paid to school districts under division (E)(1) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code shall be used for the following independent and fully severable purposes”, and none of its divisions says how much is paid. The allocating sentence is R.C. 3317.024(E)(2)(d), which divides “the total amount appropriated for the implementation of sections 3317.06 and 3317.062” by the average daily membership in chartered nonpublic schools “as determined as of the last day of October of each school year”. So this is a quotient of an appropriation and not a price, and its rate falls when nonpublic enrollment rises. verified crates/project

The money reaches a school by one of two routes, and the school chooses. Under R.C. 3317.024(E)(1) the state pays the resident district, which buys the services and is reimbursed for the cost of administering them; under (E)(2) a school that gives notice by 1 April of an odd-numbered year is paid directly, and R.C. 3317.062 is the same list of permitted uses written for that route. A directly-paid school may designate an organization to receive the money, and that organization “may require the school’s governing authority to pay a fee … that does not exceed four per cent of the total amount of payments for auxiliary services that the school receives from the state”. verified How the schools divide between the two routes is not held here — neither the redbook nor the greenbook reports it. open

This is the program the corpus missed for as long as it treated state money in private schooling as the scholarship question. It predates every voucher modeled here, it is paid outside the six funding units of R.C. 3317.022, and it has its own appropriation line where the scholarships have an earmark inside one.

What this repository computed # ↑ Contents

Not what Ohio publishes. Figures derived here from committed fixtures, each one citing the test that reproduces it.

What it pays, and what it buys # ↑ Contents

$166,816,769 in FY2025, rising to $172,262,613 as appropriated for FY2027 — the largest of the three Category 3 lines at 68.74% of the category. Category 3 as a whole paid $242,688,919 in FY2025 and is appropriated $250,737,573 for FY2027. verified crates/project

Set beside the channel this corpus did model: the four scholarship programs that publish an expenditure paid $991,191,150.12 in 2024-25, so Category 3 is 24.48% of them. That share is an upper bound and not an estimate — Jon Peterson publishes no expenditure, so the denominator is short by one program. Even bounded, the reading holds: a quarter of the money this corpus called the nonpublic channel was never in it. verified crates/project

The line grew by a twelfth and fell by an eighth # ↑ Contents

Across FY2020 to FY2025 the appropriation rose 8.25% in cash and fell 13.48% in constant FY2025 dollars. Category 3 together rose 12.12% and fell 10.39%. The nominal series is the one a budget document states and it rises in nearly every biennium; the real series is what a school buying the same speech therapist experienced. verified crates/project

The per-pupil figure closes on the October the statute names # ↑ Contents

R.C. 3317.024(E)(2)(d) divides, and the corpus now holds what it divides by. The department has published an October count of chartered nonpublic enrollment every year since 1977 — 49 of them, at the building and at the sector, on an attachment page no connector owned. FY2025’s quotient takes the appropriation net of the College Credit Plus earmark, $2,739,015, over the 179,693 pupils living in Ohio that the department counted in October 2024. It comes to $913.10, against the $913 LSC publishes in both the redbook and the greenbook — a published figure and not a forecast, since the two editions agree. verified crates/project

Three readings had to be right together for it to close, and each is refutable on its own. The numerator is net of an earmark that implements neither section the quotient names. The October is the school year’s, so FY2025 divides by October 2024 rather than by October 2025. And the count is of pupils living in Ohio: over all 181,171 the same file totals, the quotient comes out eight dollars lower and matches nothing anyone publishes. verified crates/project

Seven published rates, and five of them close # ↑ Contents

LSC has printed a per-pupil rate for this line in seven fiscal years, every one of them odd: the year before each budget it analyses, from H.B. 59’s FY2013 to H.B. 96’s FY2025. Every greenbook since H.B. 119 also prints what is left of the line after its earmark, and the earmark is older than College Credit Plus — H.B. 66 set aside $2,000,000 a year in the same place for postsecondary enrollment options. That remainder over the school year’s own October, in-state, closes five of the seven: $867.03 for FY2017 against $867, $897.44 for FY2019 against “roughly $900”, $927.18 for FY2021 and $926.52 for FY2023 against $927 both times, and FY2025’s $913.10. verified crates/project

The three readings FY2025 needed are not that year’s accident. In FY2017, FY2021, FY2023 and FY2025 alike, the line gross of its earmark misses high, the October’s whole total with out-of-state pupils included misses low, and the next October misses — each year rules out the alternatives on its own. FY2019’s “roughly” is too coarse to rule out the October. verified crates/project

FY2017 closes only on the 2014-2019 compilation, and that settles a disagreement between two of the department’s files. October 2016’s own file states 171,426 pupils living in Ohio; the compilation states 169,901 in Ohio and 171,426 in all. Over the annual file’s figure the quotient is $859.32, which nobody printed. So the annual file’s in-state column is the whole sector mislabeled, and the quotient takes the compilation wherever it restates an October. verified crates/project

The two that do not close are the two with no exact October under them, since the department published no sector total before October 2015. Both printed rates sit inside the interval the masked building sheet leaves: FY2013’s “about $710” lies between $636.41 and $825.60. FY2015’s $787 has a second witness in the compilation, and on it the quotient is $787.55 — a dollar’s rounding high. LSC called both of those an “average per-pupil amount”, which may be a different statistic from the quotient; the fixtures cannot say. verified crates/project

Per pupil, the real fall is a fifth # ↑ Contents

From FY2017 to FY2025, the first and last years that close on an exact October, the line rose 11.87% in cash and fell 15.04% in constant FY2025 dollars. The rate rose 5.31% and fell 20.02%. The in-state count the quotient divides by grew from 169,901 to 179,693 over the same years, so a pupil’s share of a line shrinking in real terms shrank faster than the line. verified crates/project

Most of the October the rate divides by now holds a scholarship # ↑ Contents

The scholarships and this line share a population. Traditional EdChoice, the expansion and Cleveland pay tuition at a chartered nonpublic school, so their pupils are counted in the October this rate divides by. The 2025 scholarship report draws each program’s participation by year and prints no value; read off the drawing to a tenth of a point, the charts reproduce all 42 values printed elsewhere. Over that October, the scholarships held between 21.9% and 26.9% of the in-state count in FY2017, and between 84.5% and 92.8% in FY2025. The floor counts only the three school-bound programs and the ceiling adds Autism and Jon Peterson, whose providers need not be schools. The floor first passed three quarters in FY2024, the universal expansion’s first year, at 79.9%. verified crates/project

Scholarship growth reached the rate’s denominator hardly at all. From FY2017 to FY2025 the school-bound programs grew by at least 114,422 pupils, while the in-state count grew by 9,792. So at least nine in ten of the new scholarships went to pupils inside a count that barely moved, and the line was split over almost the same number of pupils as before. The denominator’s rise was under a tenth of the scholarships’. verified crates/project

The ratio overstates the October share by an amount no source publishes. A scholarship count is everyone who took part in the year, and the October count is one day; a pupil who left before October or arrived after it is in the first and not the second. Which schools the scholarship pupils attend is not held either, so the share cannot be stated per school. open

What the bound was, and why it missed # ↑ Contents

Before this series the corpus divided by the department’s landscape sheet — 173,156 pupils for 2023-24 — and published $963.39 as an upper bound on the rate. The direction was right and the reason recorded for it was wrong. The note said the count was short of the redbook’s 747 chartered nonpublic schools and the greenbook’s 725. This series counts 711 schools in October 2023, 722 a year later and 749 in October 2025 — so both LSC figures fall inside the range the department’s own later Octobers cover, and are newer vintages of the same sector rather than a disagreement with it. The landscape count was short by a year, and by nothing else. verified crates/project

The landscape sheet is the cross-publisher check now rather than the denominator, and it passes: its enrollment and its school count are exactly what the department’s own October 2023 data file states, from a different office in a different format. Inverting the published rate on the appropriation net of the earmark wants 179,713 pupils against the 179,693 counted — a gap of twenty in a hundred and eighty thousand, which is what rounding a rate to the dollar costs. verified crates/project

Which district a school sits in # ↑ Contents

Under R.C. 3317.024(E)(1) the district a school is located in is the district the money moves through, and no October file carries a district column in any of the six layouts the department has used. The department’s directory does not either: it names each school’s diocese or association as its parent. What it does give is a mailing address against the building IRN the October files share. Geocoded into the 2020 census blocks, and each block joined to the district it lay in, that places 714 of October 2025’s 749 buildings — 95.3% — in a district. Of the 35 left, six have left the directory since October and 29 are addresses the geocoder could not place; both sets are pinned by IRN. Across the whole directory 755 of 787 schools are placed, in 278 districts. verified crates/project

The directory is a snapshot of the schools open today, at today’s addresses, so this reaches the present and not the past: 688 of October 2023’s 711 buildings are still in it, and those are placed where they are now, not necessarily where they were. One school, St Helen in Newbury, sits in a district that ceased after the census the blocks record, and is resolved to West Geauga through the territory transfer. verified crates/project

The third line is this line’s own money coming back # ↑ Contents

ALI 200659, “Auxiliary Services Reimbursement”, is carried as a separate line in fund 5980 and is not a separate program. R.C. 3317.064(A) creates its fund out of “excess moneys in the auxiliary services personnel unemployment compensation fund”, and R.C. 4141.47(A) says that fund “shall consist of moneys paid into the fund pursuant to section 3317.06 of the Revised Code” — so the line is a two-step reflux of unspent 200511 money. Both LSC editions add the fact that settles it: no transfers have occurred since FY 2013, so twelve years of spending on it have drawn down a balance rather than recycled a flow. It paid $534,753 in FY2025 and is appropriated a round $650,000 for FY2027. verified crates/project

What H.B. 96 did to it # ↑ Contents

H.B. 96 amended the uses and created no line. It permits auxiliary services funds to be spent on diagnostic and therapeutic mental health services for chartered nonpublic pupils, and adds retired Ohio peace officers to those a school may hire as security officers with them. The vendored section carries the act as its own source and shows both changes in divisions (D), (E) and (P). verified crates/project

GRF 200492 is not the earmark # ↑ Contents

Its title, “College Credit Plus – Auxiliary Funding”, reads like this line’s College Credit Plus earmark moved onto a line of its own. It is a different program. The H.B. 33 greenbook files it as C2:6, under Category 2, Educational Enhancements, and not under Category 3. The line “will be used by DEW to provide grants to school districts offering new College Credit Plus courses taught in secondary schools by high school teachers with appropriate credentials”, at least $1,000 for each new course. The same greenbook still prints the nonpublic earmark inside 200511, as C3:1. verified lsc-education-greenbooks.txt

So 200492 pays public districts. It spent $904,000 in FY2025 while the earmark inside 200511 spent $2,739,015, and the quotient is net of the earmark alone. verified crates/project

Federal money beside it # ↑ Contents

Two federal channels bought services for the same schools while this line ran, and neither is part of Category 3. Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools spent $285.4 million over FY2022-FY2025. The IDEA Part B proportionate share is about $16 million a year. verified crates/project Title I’s equitable-services share is a third and is not sized. open All three are delivered by public agencies and none is a payment to the school, so the statewide card shows the two that are sized as a separate layer and never adds them to this line.