At $22,923 per pupil, Vanlue Local ranks #72 of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending (Ohio districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
143
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$22,923
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Vanlue Local operates 2 public schools serving 143 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Ohio. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 elementary 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 Hancock County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,923 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 55.4% local, 38.8% state, and 5.8% 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, and 33.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.0% White, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Vanlue High School, enrolling 81 students (62% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 5.6% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (143 to 151 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.1 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,849,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 51.3% went to instruction, 31.2% to support services, and 7.3% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Vanlue High School accounts for 56.6% of all Vanlue Local student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Vanlue Local a distant remainder — means Vanlue Local-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.
Vanlue Local 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.
Vanlue Local chronic absenteeism rate is 33.0% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.