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Ashland, Ohio - 1 schools
An equity score of 74/100 ranks Ashland County-West Holmes Joint Vocational School #50 of 806 districts in Ohio (state average 46). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $23,133 per pupil, Ashland County-West Holmes Joint Vocational School ranks #42 of 966 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending (Ohio districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Ashland County-West Holmes Joint Vocational School operates 1 public schools serving 359 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 $23,133 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 97 of 966 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending. See how Ohio compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 66.3% local, 28.1% state, and 5.6% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 74/100, ranked #50 of 806 in Ohio against a state average of 46, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 76.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.3% White, 1.4% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% African American across the district's schools.
Ashland-W Holmes Career Center accounts for 100.0% of all Ashland County-West Holmes Joint Vocational School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ashland County-West Holmes Joint Vocational School a distant remainder — means Ashland County-West Holmes Joint Vocational School-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-West Holmes Joint Vocational School chronic absenteeism rate is 76.8% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Ashland County-West Holmes Joint Vocational School's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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