In the 2012 tax year, Ohio school districts’ current operating levies (including emergency levies and joint vocational school operating levies) yielded approximately $9.0 billion in taxes on property with a taxable value of $236.4 billion.  Included in these totals are $8.4 billion in real property taxes charged against taxable value of $225.5 billion and $0.6 billion in public utility tangible personal property taxes charged against taxable value of $10.9 billion.  Tax year 2012 real property and public utility tangible personal property taxes are payable in calendar year 2013.

Real property taxes in this table reflect the application of "tax reduction factors"; these credits are applied in order to eliminate changes in revenue from certain voted taxes that might otherwise occur when property is reappraised or updated.  Real property taxes shown in the table include taxes that have been reduced under various property tax programs that are reimbursed to local school districts by the state (i.e., the non-business credit, owner occupancy credit, and homestead exemption programs for real property).

The table also shows calculated operating millage rates for real and public utility tangible personal property and average property values per pupil. In 2012, millage rates for school district operating levies ranged from a high of 90.65 mills on real property and 176.53 mills for public utility tangible personal property in Shaker Heights City School District (Cuyahoga County) to a low of 9.34 mills on real property in Kelley’s Island LSD and 9.40 on public utility tangible personal property in Middle Bass Local School District (Ottawa County).  The statewide average school district operating millage on real property was 37.45 mills; on public utility tangible personal property, 50.61 mills.

Due to low average daily membership (ADM) numbers, Kelley's Island Local School District (Erie County) ranked number one in the state in average total taxable property value per pupil with an average of $12,592,770 and Put-in-Bay LSD (Ottawa County) ranked number two with an average of $1,592,975.  Campbell City School District (Mahoning County) ranked number 612 with the lowest per pupil average of $46,707. The state average was $135,206; 374 or approximately 61.1% of school districts fell below that average.  The state median value per pupil was $125,601 (Milton Union EVSD, Miami County).

Data are derived from records of the Ohio Department of Education and the school district valuation (DTE-13) and school district valuation and taxes (DTE-14) tax abstracts; these abstracts compile data filed by county auditors with the Ohio Department of Taxation. The spreadsheet below has two tabs: the traditional SD-1 table and the source file (SD1DAT file shows property data broken down by classification).

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