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Van Wert, Ohio - 2 schools
An equity score of 55/100 ranks Lincolnview Local #251 of 806 districts in Ohio (state average 46). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,683 per pupil, Lincolnview Local ranks #495 of 966 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending (Ohio districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
822
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$13,683
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Lincolnview Local operates 2 public schools serving 822 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Ohio. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 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 Van Wert County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,683 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 49.8% local, 42.0% state, and 8.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 55/100, ranked #251 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.
a 384.5:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 18.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.2% White, 3.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Lincolnview Elementary School, enrolling 426 students (55% of the district's total enrollment).
Lincolnview Elementary School accounts for 51.8% of all Lincolnview Local student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Lincolnview Local a distant remainder — means Lincolnview Local-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Lincolnview Local student-counselor ratio is 385:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Lincolnview Local chronic absenteeism rate is 18.1% — 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 Lincolnview Local is typically wider than the Lincolnview Local-aggregate figure suggests.