Nonpublic Administrative Cost Reimbursement
The state repays chartered nonpublic schools for what they spent the previous year administering Ohio's mandates — $75.3 million in FY2025, against actual costs and up to a per-pupil ceiling the appropriation has not reached since the ceiling was raised.
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GRF line item 200532, authorized by R.C. 3317.063 and established by H.B. 694 of the 114th
General Assembly. The state annually repays each chartered nonpublic school “for the actual
mandated service administrative and clerical costs incurred by such school during the preceding
school year” — the cost of keeping the records, filing the reports and administering the tests
Ohio requires of a school it charters. verified crates/project
It is a reimbursement in the strict sense, and that is what separates it from its sibling.
Auxiliary services divides an appropriation by a membership and pays
the quotient; this line pays what a school can show it spent. R.C. 3317.063 requires the school
to apply, to “maintain a separate account or system of accounts” for the costs claimed, permits
the department to audit them, and provides that a school paid more than it spent “shall
immediately reimburse the state in such excess amount”. The payment is bounded above rather than
set: it “shall not exceed the per-pupil amount specified by the general assembly for that school
year”. verified crates/project
The consequence is that the line has a slack a quotient cannot have. A direct appropriation’s rate is whatever the division comes to, so it is never rationed and never underspent; a reimbursement against a ceiling can be either, and in FY2025 it was rationed — the General Assembly authorized $475 per student and the appropriation stretched to $440.
Both lines are paid to the same schools, in the same year, out of the same category of the department’s budget, and neither is a scholarship: no family applies, no district is deducted, and the pupil’s income and disability are irrelevant to both. What differs is the arithmetic, and it differs enough that the two are separate nodes rather than one node with two amounts.
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 Contents
$75,337,397 in FY2025, appropriated $77,824,960 for FY2027 — a little under a third of
Category 3 and the second largest of its three lines. verified crates/project
Across FY2020 to FY2025 it rose 21.08% in cash and fell 3.23% in constant FY2025 dollars.
That real fall is a quarter the depth of auxiliary services’, and the reason is visible in the
rate rather than in the appropriation: the ceiling was raised twice inside the window while the
quotient line had no rate to raise. A line whose price is set by statute can be given a raise;
a line whose price is a division cannot. verified crates/project
The appropriation is the binding limit, not the ceiling Contents
R.C. 3317.063 pays actual costs up to “the per-pupil amount specified by the general assembly for
that school year”. The General Assembly specified $475 for FY2024 through FY2027. LSC records
that in FY2025 the amount appropriated permitted the department to pay up to $440 per
student, so the schedule was rationed 7.37% below the rate the statute allows — the
appropriation bound before the ceiling did. verified crates/project
What that gap means for a school is not held. A school whose mandated costs ran below $440 per pupil was paid in full and felt nothing; a school at or above the ceiling absorbed the whole shortfall. The distribution of claims against the ceiling is in the department’s reimbursement records and no source here retrieves it. open
The two rates do not share a denominator, and should not Contents
Inverting each published rate against its own FY2025 appropriation gives 171,221 pupils here
and 179,713 for auxiliary services — five per cent apart, so they cannot both be the October
membership R.C. 3317.024(E)(2)(d) names. verified crates/project
Nor should they be, and the discrepancy is the mechanism rather than an error in it. Auxiliary
services is a quotient, so its implied denominator is a membership. This line is not: it pays
actual costs, a school that spent less is paid less, and dividing the appropriation by the
ceiling therefore counts the pupils in schools claiming the maximum rather than the pupils in
chartered nonpublic schools. The corpus states both numbers and reconciles neither, because
reconciling them would mean asserting that one of the two mechanisms is the other. verified crates/project
Properties Contents
| Name | Nonpublic Administrative Cost Reimbursement |
|---|---|
| Mechanism | reimbursement |
| Eligibility | Chartered nonpublic schools, on application, for costs actually incurred in the preceding school year administering services Ohio mandates. verified The school must keep a separate account or system of accounts for those costs, is subject to audit, and must immediately repay anything received above what it spent. As with auxiliary services there is no family-level test: the school is the applicant and the pupil count is only a ceiling. verified |
| Amount | Actual prior-year mandated administrative and clerical costs, capped at a per-pupil amount the General Assembly sets: $475 for FY2024 through FY2027. verified What was actually payable is lower — the FY2025 appropriation supported $440 per student, 7.37% below the authorized rate. verified What individual schools claimed, and how many were held to the cap rather than to their own costs, is not held. open |
| Appropriation line | GRF 200532, read from crates/project/fixtures/catalog-line-items.csv across every LSC catalog edition from 2006 at the newest vintage that answers for each year. verified |
Where this appears on the site Contents
The pages outside the corpus that link here, and the section of each the link sits in.
Links Contents
| Instance of | Funding Program |
|---|---|
| Parallels | Auxiliary Services |
| Sourced from | Catalog of Budget Line Items — what each appropriation line was given |
| Sourced from | Ohio Revised Code — the sections this corpus cites |
| Sourced from | LSC Redbook — Ohio Department of Education and Workforce |
Pointed at by
| Auxiliary Services | Parallels |
|---|---|
| Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools | Parallels |
What this node does not hold Contents
the distribution of claims against the per-pupil ceiling — It is what decides who the $35 shortfall fell on, and the difference between a rationing nobody felt and one a subset of schools absorbed entirely. The department holds the reimbursement applications; no source this project retrieves publishes them in any form.
the statutory history of the per-pupil ceiling before FY2024 — The $475 is held for FY2024 onward because the enacted analyses state it. The real-terms series above implies the ceiling was raised at least twice across FY2020-FY2025, and the earlier amounts are in the appropriations acts of those bienniums rather than in any analysis committed here — so the shape of the rise is inferred from the money and not read.