Ohio's Education Landscape — the department's own count of every school option

Source. Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, Ohio’s Education Landscape 2023-2024, published 2025. The department’s annual two-page statewide fact sheet. Type. Primary source. The department counting the students it administers, not an aggregator restating them. Location. https://education.ohio.gov/getattachment/Topics/Data/Frequently-Requested-Data/Facts-and-Figures/Ohios-Education-Landscape-2023-2024.pdf.aspx?lang=en-US. About 1.1 MB, two pages, retrievable without credentials. Registered as education-landscape-2024 and pinned by SHA-256.

What it contains. Statewide counts for 2023-2024: enrollment by race and by diverse-learner category, district settings, school types, educator licensure and demographics, and — the table this corpus takes — School Options, which counts every way an Ohio child is schooled other than in a traditional district classroom.

Channel	Enrollment
Chartered Private Schools (711 of them)	173,156
Public Vouchers for Private School	150,914
— EdChoice Expansion	88,095
— EdChoice Scholarship	41,234
— Jon Peterson Special Needs	8,551
— Cleveland Scholarship	8,028
— Autism Scholarship	5,006
Community Schools	116,973
— Brick-and-Mortar	83,959
— Online (e-schools)	33,014
Inter-District Open Enrollment	79,006
Home School	53,051
Joint Vocational School Districts	49,524

The sheet also prints Total Enrollment 1,665,521 for the same year, which is committed as the fixture’s last row rather than quoted — a denominator nothing recomputes is the transcription this repository keeps finding wrong.

It is not a total of the table above it. That figure is Ohio’s public enrollment: the community schools are inside it, and home education, the chartered private schools and the voucher students attending them are not. A share taken against it is a ratio to the public system, which is the comparison the corpus makes; a share of all Ohio children would need a larger denominator that no source here publishes.

Why it matters here # ↑ Contents

It is the only machine-reachable place the department publishes a home-education count. The Home Schooling topic page carries none, the home-education fact sheet carries none, and the Enrollment Data files — which reach back to 1978 — have no home-education breakout by district of attendance or of residence. That single cell is the whole of Ohio’s published home-education record, and everything else known about the series comes from an aggregator, which is why Johns Hopkins Homeschool Hub — state and district home-education counts exists and why nothing in it can be [verified].

And it prints the channels side by side, counted the same way in the same year. Every other source here sizes one channel at a time, so comparing them means comparing publications with different vintages, populations and definitions. This table does not have that problem, and it is the only place in the corpus that does not.

Two internal identities, and one cross-source check # ↑ Contents

The five voucher programs sum to the voucher total exactly — 41,234 + 88,095 + 8,028 + 8,551 + 5,006 = 150,914 — and the two community-school types sum to theirs — 83,959 + 33,014 = 116,973. Both are asserted where the fixture is read, because a layout change that shifted a column would break them and nothing else would notice.

The five programs also appear in the 2025 Scholarship Annual Report, for the following school year. Every one is larger there, which is the corroboration that matters: two independent department publications, consecutive years, the same five names, all moving the same way.

What it does not carry # ↑ Contents

Nothing per district. Every figure is statewide, so this cannot answer where a channel is concentrated — and the concentration is the interesting part for a funding question, because a population spread across 600 districts is thin almost everywhere and heavy somewhere.

One year. The department replaces the sheet in place rather than archiving editions. The 2018-19 through 2022-23 and 2024-25 URLs all return an identical 1,245-byte 404, as does the older-format 2013-2014-WHERE-KIDS-COUNT still carried in search indexes, and both facts-and-figures index pages link only the current edition. This is therefore a series with one retrievable member, and the digest here is what stops that member from being lost the way its predecessors were.

No definitions. The sheet gives counts and no methodology. Whether Home School counts notices received or students named on them is not stated, and the two differ by household size — the same ambiguity Johns Hopkins Homeschool Hub — state and district home-education counts records, unresolved from this side too.