At $41,365 per pupil, Portage Lakes ranks #9 of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending (Ohio districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
159
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$41,365
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Portage Lakes operates 1 public schools serving 159 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Ohio. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high 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 Summit County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $41,365 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 99 of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending. See how Ohio compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 56.6% local, 41.1% state, and 2.3% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 65:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 91.5% White, 4.6% African American, 1.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Portage Lakes Career Center, enrolling 130 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Portage Lakes Career Center accounts for 81.8% of all Portage Lakes student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Portage Lakes a distant remainder — means Portage Lakes-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Portage Lakes student-counselor ratio is 65:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.