At $8,835 per pupil, Lakeland Academy Community School ranks #963 of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending (Ohio districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Lakeland Academy Community School operates 1 public schools serving 97 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 Harrison County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $8,835 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 99 of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending. See how Ohio compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is , 74.4% state, and 25.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 19.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.5% White, 5.5% African American across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 9.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (97 to 88 students), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $878,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 52.7% went to instruction, 44.9% to support services, and 2.4% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Lakeland Academy Community School accounts for 75.3% of all Lakeland Academy Community School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Lakeland Academy Community School a distant remainder — means Lakeland Academy Community School-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Lakeland Academy Community School chronic absenteeism rate is 19.2% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Lakeland Academy Community School is typically wider than the Lakeland Academy Community School-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Lakeland Academy Community School's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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