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3 of 5 stars overall · Ohio School Report Card 2025-26Akron City’s school levies cost a home about $1,396 a year for every $100,000 of its value. Its pupils’ test scores rank 586th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and in 2024-25 it spent $21,165 per student to run its schools, well over the Ohio average of $17,609. All three are the state’s own figures: the Department of Taxation’s certified tax rates, the School Report Card and the District Profile Report.
Its homes are in Akron.
What Akron City’s school levies cost a home
$1,396 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
That is Akron City’s part of the property tax bill on a home its owner lives in: 39.88 mills, after House Bill 920’s reduction and the state’s rollback credits. A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,791 a year for its schools; at $300,000, about $4,187.
About $74 of every $1,396 pays for buildings, equipment and the loans for them — its bond and permanent-improvement levies. The rest is day-to-day money.
Its day-to-day levies stand at 42.08 mills on the state’s 2025 rates, above Ohio’s 20-mill floor, so when the county revalues homes their rate is cut and they collect the same dollars.
A home’s value here is the county’s value for it, not a sale price. The homestead exemption, for owners 65 and over or disabled, lowers it more. The county’s, your city’s or township’s and any library levies are on the same bill on top of this: check your own bill for all of it, or see every levy behind this figure.
Homeowners 65 and over in the Akron City school district
34% of the homes their owners live in, in the Akron City school district, belong to someone 65 or older — about 14,000 homes, give or take 2 points.
Summit County: 34% · Ohio: 33%
Owners who are 65 or older, or disabled, can claim Ohio’s homestead exemption, which takes part of a home’s value off the bill; most must have an income under the state’s limit. From the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 2020–2024 five-year estimates (table B25007, owner-occupied homes by the age of the householder). A survey, so every figure has a margin of error.
2Home values
What homes are worth against what they are taxed on
What homes in Akron City are worth, and what they’re taxed on
Since January 2009, homes in the zip codes that make up Akron City have risen 80% in value. The district’s taxable value of homes and farms rose 31% — not smoothly, but in steps each time values are reset — and inflation 60%.
How much each has risen since 2009
What homes are worth: Zillow’s typical home value in the district’s zip codes, monthly. What they are taxed on: the district’s taxable value of homes and farms, which moves when values are reset. Inflation: U.S. consumer prices.
- What homes are worth+80%
- What they are taxed on+31%
- Inflation+60%
| Tax year | Taxable value | Change | Values reset |
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| 2025 | $2.50B | 0% | |
| 2024 | $2.50B | 0% | |
| 2023 | $2.51B | +41% | Update |
| 2022 | $1.78B | 0% | |
| 2021 | $1.78B | 0% | |
| 2020 | $1.78B | +12% | Reappraisal |
| 2019 | $1.59B | 0% | |
| 2018 | $1.60B | 0% | |
| 2017 | $1.60B | +1% | Update |
| 2016 | $1.58B | -1% |
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Taxable value is 35% of what the county appraises, for the district’s homes and farmland, so it also grows as new homes are built. Zillow publishes home values by zip code, not school district, so this follows the zip codes that make up the district, each counted by how much of it lies inside; a month in which one zip’s figure jumps by more than any market moves is left out. Values reset every three years, alternating a full reappraisal and an update, on Summit County’s schedule. Sources: the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce’s District Profile Report and the Department of Taxation’s abstracts, Zillow’s Home Value Index and U.S. consumer prices (CPI-U).
3Levies & the ballot
Every levy collected here, and what is on the ballot
Every Akron City levy still on the bill
These are the school district’s own levies. Anything else on the same bill — the county’s, your city’s, village’s or township’s, and any library, park or career-centre levy — belongs to someone else and is not in this list.
10 school levies approved by voters are still on Akron City tax bills. The most recent was first approved in 2024, and the oldest in 1976 or earlier — the state’s records do not say which year, and why is below. Together they are 36.20 mills on a home its owner lives in, after House Bill 920’s reduction and after the state’s rollback credits — which is what is actually charged, not what the ballot said.
| First approved | Purpose | Mills on a home | Share of the district’s rate |
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| 2024 | Current expense | 7.600 | 19.1% |
| 2024 | Bond repayment $85,000,000 borrowed | 1.290 | 3.2% |
| 2012 | Current expense | 4.347 | 10.9% |
| 2006 | Current expense | 4.347 | 10.9% |
| 2001 | Current expense | 4.881 | 12.2% |
| 1994 | Current expense | 3.465 | 8.7% |
| 1988 | Current expense | 1.921 | 4.8% |
| 1985 | Current expense | 1.407 | 3.5% |
| 1976 or earlier | Current expense | 6.126 | 15.4% |
| 1976 or earlier | Permanent improvement | 0.817 | 2.0% |
| Never | Inside millage — no vote was ever taken on it | 3.675 | 9.2% |
| All | The district’s school rate | 39.876 | 100% |
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2 of them cost you more than the rate says
Ohio stopped paying the 10% and 2.5% rollback credits on new levies approved from the November 2013 ballot onward; renewals and substitute levies for older ones keep them. So 8.89 of these 39.88 mills arrive at full price, and the same millage on an older levy would cost a homeowner about an eighth less. The state’s rate file marks which levies qualify, and that mark is what this counts.
What these purposes mean
Current expense is the day-to-day money — salaries, heat, buses — and it is most of any district’s rate. Emergency and substitute levies are also day-to-day money, written to raise a fixed number of dollars a year rather than a fixed rate. Permanent improvement pays for buildings and equipment and may not be spent on salaries. Bond repayment is paying back money already borrowed, usually for a building, and it ends when the borrowing does. Classroom facilities is the state’s school-building programme, where the state pays a share and the district votes the rest.
Why some of them say “1976 or earlier”
House Bill 920 — the law that stops a levy collecting more money when values rise — took effect in 1976, so that is the first year the state tracks a reduction for. Everything voted before it is filed under 1976 and the certified records do not say which year it actually was. Statewide, 610 of Ohio’s 611 school districts have at least one, and here they are 6.94 of these 39.88 mills. So the honest reading of that row is “half a century ago at least”, not “1976”.
Tax year 2025, from the Department of Taxation’s certified rates: the school levies on one real bill, in the taxing district holding the most of this district’s home and farm value. The year is the one the state files each levy under, which is when it was first approved: a levy voters have since renewed keeps its original year, and an incremental levy’s later steps are shown with the vote they belong to. Each purpose is the state’s own, spelled one way — the certified file files “current expense” under eight different spellings. Inside millage is the up-to-ten mills a government may levy with no vote, and it is the part House Bill 920 does not hold down. Why a bill rises when a value does explains the rest.
Akron City Schools on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Akron City Schools has no tax issue on this ballot, on the Ohio Secretary of State’s list of local questions and issues as of September 18, 2026.
How its earlier votes went: since March 17, 2020, voters have decided 1 Akron City Schools tax issue — 1 passed and 0 failed. Of the issues asking for new money, 1 of 1 passed.
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Test scoresSpendingSuperintendent payBudgetThe Report Card's figuresWhere the money comes from
Akron City’s test scores: 586th of 607 districts
Ohio’s Performance Index scores every district on its pupils’ state tests, from 0 to 120. In 2025-26 Akron City scored 64.8: 586th of Ohio’s 607 school districts, in the 90–100% band from the top. The state rates that achievement 2 of 5 stars, and its Progress — how much pupils grew compared with what their own earlier scores predicted — 4 of 5.
These are test scores, and test scores follow family income closely; Progress follows it much less. On the state’s own list, which also ranks community and STEM schools, Akron City is 714th of 871.
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| 2025-26 | 64.8 | 586 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2024-25 | 65.8 | 582 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2023-24 | 63.4 | 585 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2022-23 | 61.2 | 589 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2021-22 | — | 58.7 | 589 of 607 90–100% |
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Its schools, 2025-26
Of its 42 schools on the state’s list, Akron Early College High School has the highest test scores: 109.5 on the Performance Index, 56th of Ohio’s 2,933 ranked schools.
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Akron Early College High SchoolHigh School, grades 9-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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9-12 | 109.5 | 56 of 2933 top 10% |
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National Inventors Hall of Fame School, Center for STEMMiddle School, grades 5-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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5-8 | 92.2 | 1049 of 2933 30–40% |
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Windemere Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 91.4 | 1116 of 2933 30–40% |
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Miller-South Visual Performing ArtsMiddle School, grades 4-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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4-8 | 90.2 | 1233 of 2933 40–50% |
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King Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 87.9 | 1432 of 2933 40–50% |
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National Inventors Hall of Fame STEM HS at Robinson CLCHigh School, grades 9-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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9-12 | 82.3 | 1860 of 2933 60–70% |
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Voris Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5 | 80.8 | 1954 of 2933 60–70% |
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Ritzman Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 80.0 | 2020 of 2933 60–70% |
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Sam Salem Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 76.2 | 2215 of 2933 70–80% |
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Case Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5 | 74.4 | 2280 of 2933 70–80% |
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Judith A Resnik Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5 | 74.1 | 2288 of 2933 70–80% |
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Hatton Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5 | 73.9 | 2292 of 2933 70–80% |
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Forest Hill Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5 | 71.8 | 2356 of 2933 80–90% |
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Firestone Community Learning CenterHigh School, grades 9-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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9-12 | 71.3 | 2374 of 2933 80–90% |
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Harris/Jackson Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 71.0 | 2382 of 2933 80–90% |
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Rimer Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 69.8 | 2414 of 2933 80–90% |
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Leggett Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5 | 69.2 | 2428 of 2933 80–90% |
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Betty Jane Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5 | 68.4 | 2455 of 2933 80–90% |
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Seiberling Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 67.9 | 2467 of 2933 80–90% |
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Ellet Community Learning CenterHigh School, grades 9-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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9-12 | 66.9 | 2491 of 2933 80–90% |
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Barber Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 66.6 | 2501 of 2933 80–90% |
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Schumacher Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5 | 65.5 | 2532 of 2933 80–90% |
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Findley Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5 | 65.1 | 2544 of 2933 80–90% |
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McEbright Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5 | 63.1 | 2582 of 2933 80–90% |
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North High SchoolHigh School, grades 9-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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9-12 | 62.9 | 2584 of 2933 80–90% |
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Mason Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 62.5 | 2591 of 2933 80–90% |
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Litchfield Community Learning CenterMiddle School, grades 6-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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6-8 | 62.3 | 2595 of 2933 80–90% |
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Hyre Community Learning CenterMiddle School, grades 6-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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6-8 | 62.0 | 2598 of 2933 80–90% |
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David Hill Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 61.5 | 2609 of 2933 80–90% |
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Pfeiffer Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-5. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5 | 60.5 | 2629 of 2933 80–90% |
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Portage Path Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 59.5 | 2640 of 2933 90–100% |
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Garfield Community Learning CenterHigh School, grades 9-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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9-12 | 58.3 | 2671 of 2933 90–100% |
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Glover Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5 | 57.0 | 2697 of 2933 90–100% |
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Jennings Community Learning CenterMiddle School, grades 6-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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6-8 | 56.3 | 2707 of 2933 90–100% |
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East Community Learning CenterHigh School, grades 6-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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6-12 | 52.8 | 2767 of 2933 90–100% |
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APS OnlineHigh School, grades K-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-12 | 52.7 | 2769 of 2933 90–100% |
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Helen Arnold Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 51.9 | 2777 of 2933 90–100% |
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Akron Alternative AcademyHigh School, grades 9-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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9-12 | 51.4 | 2785 of 2933 90–100% |
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Buchtel Community Learning CenterHigh School, grades 6-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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6-12 | 50.6 | 2808 of 2933 90–100% |
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Innes Community Learning CenterMiddle School, grades 6-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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6-8 | 48.9 | 2839 of 2933 90–100% |
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I Promise SchoolMiddle School, grades 3-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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3-8 | 47.7 | 2855 of 2933 90–100% |
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Crouse Community Learning CenterElementary School, grades K-5,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-5,P | 47.1 | 2860 of 2933 90–100% |
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Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, Performance Index and Value-Added rankings and the Report Card’s overall and component ratings, School Report Card downloads. Ranked here among the traditional districts (and their schools); a tie shares a rank. Every district and county.
What Akron City spends per student
In 2024-25, Akron City spent $21,165 per student to run its schools. That pays for teachers, buses, utilities and supplies for its 19,079 enrolled students; the cost of building schools and paying off their loans isn’t included. 54% of it went to teaching, compared with 57% statewide. The figures are the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce’s District Profile Report.
It had the equivalent of 1,520 full-time teachers that year, 12.6 students for each, against 14.2 across Ohio.
The state’s School Report Card shows $13,848 for the same money, because it divides by weighted pupils: why the two differ.
Ohio overall: 57%
Ohio overall: 10%
Ohio overall: 111
Ohio overall: 14
What each Akron City student’s $21,165 pays for
Where it went in 2024-25, in the state’s own categories, with its building category split into running buildings, buses and school meals. They add to the $21,165 per student to the dollar, because they are the state’s own split of it.
- Teaching$11,343 per student 54%
- Administration$3,216 per student 15%
- Running buildings$2,183 per student 10%
- Pupil support$1,535 per student 7%
- Staff support$1,087 per student 5%
- Buses$923 per student 4%
- School meals$877 per student 4%
Administration is the state’s category and it includes every building principal’s office, not only the board and the central office, as the state’s Expenditure Flow Model handbook sets out.
How that share has moved
The teaching share for this district, every year we hold, drawn as one line per set of the department’s definitions. The gaps are deliberate: the categories were re-cut in FY2013 and the pupil count changed in FY2022, so a line across either would draw a definition as a decision this district made.
Share of Akron City’s spending that goes to teaching
Ohio District Profile Reports for this district, as published. One district’s single year can move several points and come back — a building project, a grant, a year a category was filed differently — so read the run rather than the point. FY2014’s revenue figures are a known bad workbook statewide; its spending figures, which are what this chart draws, are not affected.
- FY22–FY2553.59%
- FY13–FY2156.97%
- FY10–FY1254.14%
What Akron City pays its superintendent
In 2024-25, Akron City paid its superintendent $240,000, typical for a district of its size: the middle half of the 12 districts with 10,000 or more pupils paid $214,978 to $267,400. With what a contract usually adds, the retirement pickup, an annuity and allowances, that comes to about $291,000. The salary is 3.0 times its average teacher’s, $80,803; in Ohio’s middle district it is 2.0.
Its treasurer, who keeps the district’s books, was paid $203,004, high for a district of its size.
From 2005-06 to 2024-25, its superintendent’s salary went from $140,000 to $240,000: +71%, against +43% for Ohio’s middle district and +60% for prices.
Akron City’s superintendent, 2005-06 to 2024-25
Salaries as paid in each year, one person in the post all year. A step is often a new superintendent. No point for 2022-23, 2023-24, when the post changed hands, was shared or was reported for part of the year; the line runs straight across.
- This district$240,000
- Ohio's middle district$135,594
The state’s figures; the package is our estimate. Every district in Summit County, and how the estimate is made →
Akron City’s budget forecast
What the district itself forecasts, in the budget it files with the state — the Fiscal Year 2027 First Required Forecast (Fall).
- Cash, June 30, 2026
- $92.1M
- Runs short
- FY2029
- New levy in the forecast
- None
2.9 months of that year’s spending
on its own forecast, if its levies are renewed and no new one passes
it counts no levy voters have not approved
The full budget: cash, unencumbered and unreserved balances, and every line of the forecast →
Akron City’s own notes and assumptions for this forecast (PDF) →
Why the state’s Report Card shows different numbers
Ohio publishes two sets of school spending figures, and both are the state’s own. This page uses the District Profile Report: day-to-day spending divided by the pupils actually enrolled. Akron City’s School Report Card works it out differently:
- Its per-pupil figure is lower. It divides by weighted pupils (Financial Data Technical Documentation): students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged students and English learners count as more than one pupil. In 2024-25 Akron City spent $403,822,561 on day-to-day costs. This page divides that by the 19,079 pupils enrolled: $21,165. The Report Card divides the same money by 29,161 weighted pupils: $13,848. Its newest edition may be for a later year than this page.
- Its classroom share is higher. Its “classroom instruction” adds pupil support (counselling, nurses, psychologists) and staff training to teaching. Counted that way, this page’s figures come to 66% here.
Where Akron City’s money comes from
2024-25: every dollar that came in, from every source — $22,858 a student — and who it came from. It is not all spent on running the schools in the same year, so it does not match the spending above.
| Source | Total | Per student | Share |
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| Local taxes | $139.4M | $7,306 | 32% |
| The state | $202.3M | $10,603 | 46% |
| Washington | $76.2M | $3,992 | 17% |
| Fees, tuition and interest | $18.3M | $957 | 4% |
| All of it | $436.1M | $22,858 | 100% |
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Where the money comes from is the state’s split, by the accounting code each district files it under. A district’s bookkeeping can put local money, such as payments from development (TIF) districts, in another column.
Property tax billed for tax year 2024, on every kind of property in the district (the career-tech district’s levies aside): $9,044 a pupil — of which the state pays $709 as rollback and homestead credits, and owners pay the rest. It is not a slice of the local line above: that line is money received in the 2025 school year, the two cover different years, and not every bill is paid.
Taxable value behind it: $183,672 a pupil, so each mill of tax raises about $184 a pupil. Where the state’s share comes from, including the lottery.
The rest of Summit County
Every district with homes in the county, largest presence first. Akron City is one of 21.
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Summit County’s own page has what its homes are billed and where that money goes; the statewide picture has the same figures for all 606 districts in the state’s report, the ones it leaves out, and what the data cannot say.
This is an estimate built from public records — not tax, legal or financial advice, and not an appraisal. Only your county’s own statement is authoritative about your bill. If you’re thinking of challenging your value, confirm the details with your county’s Board of Revision or a property-tax professional. The full terms.