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Put-in-Bay, Ohio - 2 schools
At $43,138 per pupil, Put-in-Bay Local ranks #4 of 966 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending (Ohio districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
68
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$43,138
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Put-in-Bay Local operates 2 public schools serving 68 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Ohio. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Ottawa County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $43,138 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 89.6% local, 9.3% state, and 1.1% 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 39:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 11.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.3% White, 6.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Put-in-Bay Elementary School, enrolling 53 students (68% of the district's total enrollment).
Put-in-Bay Elementary School accounts for 67.9% of all Put-in-Bay Local student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Put-in-Bay Local a distant remainder — means Put-in-Bay Local-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.
Put-in-Bay Local student-counselor ratio is 39:1 — 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.
Put-in-Bay Local chronic absenteeism rate is 11.7% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.