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Ashland, Ohio - 1 schools
At $12,949 per pupil, Ashland County Community Academy ranks #617 of 966 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending (Ohio districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
65
Total Enrollment
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$12,949
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Ashland County Community Academy operates 1 public schools serving 65 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Ohio. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Ashland County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,949 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 966 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending. See how Ohio compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 1.7% local, 65.2% state, and 33.2% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
. Demographically, the student body averages 96.7% White across the district's schools.
Ashland County Community Academy accounts for 93.8% of all Ashland County Community Academy student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ashland County Community Academy a distant remainder — means Ashland County Community Academy-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Ashland County Community Academy has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 58.5% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Comparisons are relative to Ashland County Community Academy's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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