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Cleveland Municipal
2.5 of 5 stars overall · Ohio School Report Card 2025-26Cleveland Municipal’s school levies cost a home about $1,272 a year for every $100,000 of its value. Its pupils’ test scores rank 596th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and in 2024-25 it spent $25,694 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 Bratenahl, Linndale, Newburgh Heights, Cleveland and Garfield Heights.
What Cleveland Municipal’s school levies cost a home
$1,272 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
That is Cleveland Municipal’s part of the property tax bill on a home its owner lives in: 36.35 mills, after House Bill 920’s reduction and the state’s rollback credits. A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,544 a year for its schools; at $300,000, about $3,816.
About $180 of every $1,272 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 34.42 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 Cleveland Municipal school district
35% of the homes their owners live in, in the Cleveland Municipal school district, belong to someone 65 or older — about 25,000 homes.
Cuyahoga County: 36% · 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 Cleveland Municipal are worth, and what they’re taxed on
Since January 2009, homes in the zip codes that make up Cleveland Municipal have risen 41% in value. The district’s taxable value of homes and farms rose 53% — 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+41%
- What they are taxed on+53%
- Inflation+60%
| Tax year | Taxable value | Change | Values reset |
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| 2025 | $4.27B | 0% | |
| 2024 | $4.27B | +47% | Reappraisal |
| 2023 | $2.91B | +1% | |
| 2022 | $2.88B | +1% | |
| 2021 | $2.86B | +26% | Update |
| 2020 | $2.28B | +1% | |
| 2019 | $2.25B | 0% | |
| 2018 | $2.25B | +9% | Reappraisal |
| 2017 | $2.07B | -1% | |
| 2016 | $2.09B | 0% |
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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 Cuyahoga 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 Cleveland Municipal 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.
14 school levies approved by voters are still on Cleveland Municipal 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 32.85 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 | 5.511 | 15.2% |
| 2024 | Bond repayment $295,000,000 borrowed | 2.150 | 5.9% |
| 2024 | Current expense | 0.340 | 0.9% |
| 2020 | Current expense | 2.479 | 6.8% |
| 2020 | Current expense | 0.275 | 0.8% |
| 2014 | Bond repayment $200,000,000 borrowed | 0.900 | 2.5% |
| 2014 | Permanent improvement | 0.257 | 0.7% |
| 2012 | Current expense | 6.285 | 17.3% |
| 2012 | Current expense | 0.449 | 1.2% |
| 2001 | Bond repayment $335,000,000 borrowed | 1.619 | 4.5% |
| 2001 | Permanent improvement | 0.224 | 0.6% |
| 1996 | Current expense | 5.420 | 14.9% |
| 1983 | Current expense | 2.216 | 6.1% |
| 1976 or earlier | Current expense | 4.722 | 13.0% |
| Never | Inside millage — no vote was ever taken on it | 3.500 | 9.6% |
| All | The district’s school rate | 36.347 | 100% |
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7 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 11.91 of these 36.35 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 4.72 of these 36.35 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.
Cleveland Municipal Schools on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Cleveland Municipal 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 2 Cleveland Municipal Schools tax issues — 2 passed and 0 failed. Of the issues asking for new money, 2 of 2 passed.
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Test scoresSpendingSuperintendent payBudgetThe Report Card's figuresWhere the money comes from
Cleveland Municipal’s test scores: 596th of 607 districts
Ohio’s Performance Index scores every district on its pupils’ state tests, from 0 to 120. In 2025-26 Cleveland Municipal scored 59.9: 596th 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, Cleveland Municipal is 757th of 871. The state notes: “Student test results at three of the schools in this district are under review. This district's report card may not accurately reflect student performance. For further details, please contact the district directly.”
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| 2025-26 | 59.9 | 596 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2024-25 | 59.6 | 597 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2023-24 | 55.8 | 597 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2022-23 | 55.3 | 597 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2021-22 | — | 54.1 | 594 of 607 90–100% |
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Its schools, 2025-26
Of its 91 schools on the state’s list, Cleveland Early College High has the highest test scores: 93.4 on the Performance Index, 962nd of Ohio’s 2,933 ranked schools.
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Cleveland Early College HighHigh 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 | 93.4 | 962 of 2933 30–40% |
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Bard Early College ClevelandHigh 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 | 90.4 | 1217 of 2933 40–50% |
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Cleveland School of Science & MedicineHigh 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 | 89.6 | 1291 of 2933 40–50% |
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Robinson G Jones Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 89.2 | 1328 of 2933 40–50% |
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Cleveland School Of The Arts 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 | 87.6 | 1452 of 2933 40–50% |
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Campus International SchoolElementary School, grades K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-8 | 87.2 | 1479 of 2933 50–60% |
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Douglas MacArthurElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 83.0 | 1802 of 2933 60–70% |
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William Rainey HarperElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 82.8 | 1823 of 2933 60–70% |
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Clark SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 80.3 | 1997 of 2933 60–70% |
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BuhrerElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 79.3 | 2056 of 2933 70–80% |
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Paul L Dunbar Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 77.1 | 2163 of 2933 70–80% |
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Cleveland School of Architecture & DesignHigh 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 | 76.6 | 2194 of 2933 70–80% |
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Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 76.4 | 2200 of 2933 70–80% |
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Cleveland High School for the Digital ArtsHigh 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 | 73.5 | 2300 of 2933 70–80% |
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Davis Aerospace & Maritime 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 | 71.0 | 2381 of 2933 80–90% |
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Garrett Morgan School of Engineering & InnovationHigh 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 | 70.9 | 2387 of 2933 80–90% |
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Riverside SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 69.6 | 2422 of 2933 80–90% |
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Louisa May Alcott 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 | 69.1 | 2432 of 2933 80–90% |
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Clara E Westropp SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 68.5 | 2450 of 2933 80–90% |
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William C Bryant Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 67.5 | 2475 of 2933 80–90% |
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MC^2 STEM 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 | 67.2 | 2482 of 2933 80–90% |
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Scranton SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 66.9 | 2490 of 2933 80–90% |
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DenisonElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 66.3 | 2510 of 2933 80–90% |
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Rhodes College and Career 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 | 65.9 | 2520 of 2933 80–90% |
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New Technology WestHigh 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 | 65.7 | 2523 of 2933 80–90% |
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Garrett Morgan School of Leadership and InnovationHigh 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 | 65.1 | 2542 of 2933 80–90% |
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Campus International 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 | 64.2 | 2555 of 2933 80–90% |
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Ginn 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 | 63.9 | 2562 of 2933 80–90% |
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Rhodes School of Environmental StudiesHigh 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 | 63.6 | 2567 of 2933 80–90% |
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Joseph M Gallagher SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 62.4 | 2592 of 2933 80–90% |
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Wilbur Wright SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 61.9 | 2602 of 2933 80–90% |
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John Marshall School of Business and Civic LeadershipHigh 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 | 61.4 | 2613 of 2933 80–90% |
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Tremont Montessori SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 60.4 | 2631 of 2933 80–90% |
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Max S Hayes 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 | 60.2 | 2634 of 2933 80–90% |
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Kenneth W ClementElementary School, grades K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-8 | 59.9 | 2636 of 2933 80–90% |
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Euclid Park Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 59.5 | 2641 of 2933 90–100% |
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John Marshall School of EngineeringHigh 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 | 59.3 | 2647 of 2933 90–100% |
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Albert Bushnell HartElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 59.0 | 2652 of 2933 90–100% |
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The School of OneHigh 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 | 59.0 | 2653 of 2933 90–100% |
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Facing History High School@Charles MooneyHigh 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 | 58.8 | 2660 of 2933 90–100% |
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Warner Girls Leadership AcademyElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 58.7 | 2663 of 2933 90–100% |
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Memorial SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 57.7 | 2680 of 2933 90–100% |
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John Marshall School of Information TechnologyHigh 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 | 57.4 | 2691 of 2933 90–100% |
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Artemus WardElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 57.2 | 2693 of 2933 90–100% |
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Valley View Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 57.1 | 2694 of 2933 90–100% |
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Mary Church TerrellElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 55.7 | 2716 of 2933 90–100% |
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Stonebrook-White MontessoriElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 55.2 | 2726 of 2933 90–100% |
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Benjamin FranklinElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 55.2 | 2727 of 2933 90–100% |
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Charles A Mooney SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 55.1 | 2729 of 2933 90–100% |
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Daniel E Morgan SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 53.4 | 2758 of 2933 90–100% |
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Orchard SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 53.0 | 2763 of 2933 90–100% |
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Lincoln West School of Science & HealthHigh 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 | 52.8 | 2768 of 2933 90–100% |
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Marion C Seltzer Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 52.6 | 2771 of 2933 90–100% |
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Miles Park SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 51.5 | 2782 of 2933 90–100% |
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AlmiraElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 51.4 | 2783 of 2933 90–100% |
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Dike School of ArtsElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 51.4 | 2784 of 2933 90–100% |
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Waverly Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 51.2 | 2791 of 2933 90–100% |
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East Technical 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 | 51.1 | 2794 of 2933 90–100% |
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Whitney M YoungElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 50.1 | 2817 of 2933 90–100% |
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Mary B Martin SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 50.0 | 2819 of 2933 90–100% |
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Adlai Stevenson SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 50.0 | 2820 of 2933 90–100% |
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George Washington CarverElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 49.9 | 2822 of 2933 90–100% |
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Willson SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 49.8 | 2823 of 2933 90–100% |
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East ClarkElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 49.7 | 2824 of 2933 90–100% |
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Nathan Hale SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 49.3 | 2830 of 2933 90–100% |
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Mary M BethuneElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 49.0 | 2837 of 2933 90–100% |
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Oliver Hazard Perry Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 48.9 | 2838 of 2933 90–100% |
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Glenville 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 | 48.9 | 2841 of 2933 90–100% |
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BoltonElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 48.8 | 2842 of 2933 90–100% |
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John Adams College & Career 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 | 48.1 | 2849 of 2933 90–100% |
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Marion-Sterling Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 47.7 | 2857 of 2933 90–100% |
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Collinwood 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 | 46.8 | 2864 of 2933 90–100% |
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Hannah Gibbons-Nottingham Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 46.5 | 2867 of 2933 90–100% |
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Lincoln West School Of Global StudiesHigh 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 | 46.1 | 2871 of 2933 90–100% |
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Miles SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 45.3 | 2875 of 2933 90–100% |
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Charles Dickens SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 44.3 | 2879 of 2933 90–100% |
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HalleElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 44.3 | 2880 of 2933 90–100% |
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Mound Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 44.2 | 2881 of 2933 90–100% |
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Cleveland Metro Remote School K-12High 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 | 44.0 | 2884 of 2933 90–100% |
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Andrew J RickoffElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 43.9 | 2887 of 2933 90–100% |
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Wade ParkElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 43.9 | 2888 of 2933 90–100% |
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Luis Munoz Marin SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 42.5 | 2900 of 2933 90–100% |
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Harvey Rice Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 41.9 | 2903 of 2933 90–100% |
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Robert H Jamison SchoolElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 41.6 | 2904 of 2933 90–100% |
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SunbeamElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 41.0 | 2907 of 2933 90–100% |
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John F Kennedy 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 | 39.8 | 2912 of 2933 90–100% |
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Franklin D. RooseveltElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 38.9 | 2916 of 2933 90–100% |
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Alfred BeneschElementary School, grades K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-8 | 37.5 | 2919 of 2933 90–100% |
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Natividad Pagan International Newcomers AcademyElementary School, grades K-12,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-12,P | 37.0 | 2921 of 2933 90–100% |
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Stephanie Tubbs JonesElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 37.0 | 2922 of 2933 90–100% |
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Anton GrdinaElementary School, grades P,K-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K-8 | 35.4 | 2925 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 Cleveland Municipal spends per student
In 2024-25, Cleveland Municipal spent $25,694 per student to run its schools. That pays for teachers, buses, utilities and supplies for its 31,583 enrolled students; the cost of building schools and paying off their loans isn’t included. 55% 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 2,086 full-time teachers that year, 15.1 students for each, against 14.2 across Ohio.
The state’s School Report Card shows $15,027 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 Cleveland Municipal student’s $25,694 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 $25,694 per student to the dollar, because they are the state’s own split of it.
- Teaching$14,092 per student 55%
- Administration$4,157 per student 16%
- Running buildings$2,918 per student 11%
- Pupil support$1,822 per student 7%
- Buses$1,311 per student 5%
- School meals$747 per student 3%
- Staff support$647 per student 3%
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 Cleveland Municipal’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–FY2554.85%
- FY13–FY2158.90%
- FY10–FY1257.44%
What Cleveland Municipal pays its superintendent
In 2024-25, Cleveland Municipal paid its superintendent $285,000, high 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 $344,000. The salary is 3.3 times its average teacher’s, $85,839; in Ohio’s middle district it is 2.0.
From 2006-07 to 2024-25, its superintendent’s salary went from $260,000 to $285,000: +10%, against +42% for Ohio’s middle district and +56% for prices.
Cleveland Municipal’s superintendent, 2006-07 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 2011-12, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2023-24, when the post changed hands, was shared or was reported for part of the year; the line runs straight across.
- This district$285,000
- Ohio's middle district$135,594
The state’s figures; the package is our estimate. Every district in Cuyahoga County, and how the estimate is made →
Cleveland Municipal’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
- $115.5M
- Runs short
- FY2030
- New levy in the forecast
- None
1.8 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 →
Cleveland Municipal’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. Cleveland Municipal’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 Cleveland Municipal spent $811,488,004 on day-to-day costs. This page divides that by the 31,583 pupils enrolled: $25,694. The Report Card divides the same money by 54,002 weighted pupils: $15,027. 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 64% here.
Where Cleveland Municipal’s money comes from
2024-25: every dollar that came in, from every source — $24,746 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 | $292.8M | $9,270 | 37% |
| The state | $323.5M | $10,244 | 41% |
| Washington | $119.4M | $3,780 | 15% |
| Fees, tuition and interest | $45.9M | $1,452 | 6% |
| All of it | $781.5M | $24,746 | 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): $11,700 a pupil — of which the state pays $618 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: $246,758 a pupil, so each mill of tax raises about $247 a pupil. Where the state’s share comes from, including the lottery.
The rest of Cuyahoga County
Every district with homes in the county, largest presence first. Cleveland Municipal is one of 31.
Parma City · Strongsville City · Westlake City · Lakewood City · North Royalton City · Cleveland Heights-University Heights City · Berea City · Mayfield City · Brecksville-Broadview Heights City · Orange City · Solon City · Rocky River City · Shaker Heights City · South Euclid-Lyndhurst City · North Olmsted City · Bay Village City · Euclid City · Olmsted Falls City · Bedford City · Fairview Park City · Beachwood City · Chagrin Falls Exempted Village · Garfield Heights City Schools · Independence Local · Maple Heights City · Richmond Heights Local · Brooklyn City · Warrensville Heights City · Cuyahoga Heights Local · East Cleveland City
Cuyahoga 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.