Tax Data Series

School District Data

Property Tax Data by School District
School District Taxable Property Values, Taxes Levied and Tax Rates for Current Expenses, and Average Property Values Per Pupil, Tax Year 1995

In the 1995 tax year, Ohio school districts’ current operating levies yielded a total of $5.4 billion in property taxes on the taxable value of $155.6 billion. Included in these total amounts are $3.9 billion in real property taxes charged against the taxable value of $121.1 billion, $0.6 billion in public utility personal property taxes charged against $14.6 billion in taxable value and $0.9 billion in (non-utility) tangible personal property taxes charged against taxable value of $19.9 billion. Public utility Tax year 1995 real property and utility personal property taxes were payable in calendar year 1996. Tangible personal property taxes for tax year 1995 were payable in calendar year 1995.

Real property taxes are shown are after application of "tax reduction factors". However, real and personal property taxes shown in the table include tax amounts reduced under various property tax relief programs, since these are fully reimbursed to local school districts by the state (i.e., the 10 percent, and 2.5 percent rollbacks, and homestead exemption programs for real property, and the $10,000 exemption program for personal property). In addition, the value of property exempted by the $10,000 exemption program is included in the tangible personal property valuation figures in this table.

The table also shows millage rates for real and tangible property and average property values per pupil. In 1995, millage rates for school district operating levies ranged from a high of 65.92 mills on real property and 135.46 mills for tangible property in Shaker Heights City School District (Cuyahoga County) to a low of 17.25 mills on real property in Canton Local School District (Stark County) and 20.0 mills on tangible property in Cuyahoga Heights Local School District (Cuyahoga County). The statewide average school district operating millage on real property was 31.89 effective mills; on tangible property, 46.13 mills. Kelleys Island Local School District (Erie County) ranked number one in the state in average total taxable property value per pupil with an average of $1,505,828. Trimble Local School District (Athens County) ranked number 611 with the lowest per pupil average of $18,799. The state average was $85,998.

Data are derived from real/public utility property and tangible property abstracts filed by county auditors with the Ohio Department of Taxation and records of the Ohio Department of Education.