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Dayton City
2 of 5 stars overall · Ohio School Report Card 2025-26Dayton City’s school levies cost a home about $1,095 a year for every $100,000 of its value. Its pupils’ test scores rank 605th of Ohio’s 607 districts, and in 2024-25 it spent $22,858 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 Dayton, Harrison Township, Trotwood, Riverside and Jefferson Township.
What Dayton City’s school levies cost a home
$1,095 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value, tax year 2025
That is Dayton City’s part of the property tax bill on a home its owner lives in: 31.27 mills, after House Bill 920’s reduction and the state’s rollback credits. A home the county values at $200,000 pays about $2,189 a year for its schools; at $300,000, about $3,284.
About $200 of every $1,095 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 29.21 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 Dayton City school district
36% of the homes their owners live in, in the Dayton City school district, belong to someone 65 or older — about 11,000 homes, give or take 2 points.
Montgomery County: 35% · 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 Dayton City are worth, and what they’re taxed on
Since January 2009, homes in the zip codes that make up Dayton City have risen 133% in value. The district’s taxable value of homes and farms rose 9% — 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+133%
- What they are taxed on+9%
- Inflation+60%
| Tax year | Taxable value | Change | Values reset |
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| 2025 | $1.34B | 0% | |
| 2024 | $1.34B | +1% | |
| 2023 | $1.34B | +31% | Update |
| 2022 | $1.02B | 0% | |
| 2021 | $1.02B | 0% | |
| 2020 | $1.02B | +14% | Reappraisal |
| 2019 | $901M | 0% | |
| 2018 | $903M | 0% | |
| 2017 | $906M | 0% | Update |
| 2016 | $909M | 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 Montgomery 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 Dayton 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.
6 school levies approved by voters are still on Dayton City tax bills. The most recent was first approved in 2008, and the oldest in 1976 or earlier — the state’s records do not say which year, and why is below. Together they are 27.35 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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| 2008 | Current expense | 2.887 | 9.2% |
| 2002 | Bond repayment $245,055,000 borrowed | 5.128 | 16.4% |
| 2002 | Permanent improvement | 0.589 | 1.9% |
| 1992 | Current expense | 4.825 | 15.4% |
| 1988 | Current expense | 5.758 | 18.4% |
| 1976 or earlier | Current expense | 8.169 | 26.1% |
| Never | Inside millage — no vote was ever taken on it | 3.920 | 12.5% |
| All | The district’s school rate | 31.275 | 100% |
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These all still carry the state’s credits
Ohio stopped paying the 10% and 2.5% rollback credits on new levies approved from the November 2013 ballot onward, and the state’s rate file marks every levy here as still qualifying. Every mill above is discounted before it reaches a bill.
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 8.17 of these 31.27 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.
Dayton City Schools on the November 3, 2026 ballot
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Property tax, 7 mills
New SchoolsCurrent operating expenses; general permanent improvements · Continuing · from 2026
$245 a year for each $100,000 of the county auditor’s value
$100,000 × 35% = $35,000 taxed × 7 mills ($7.00 for each $1,000) = $245
For a home the county values at $100,000: $245 a year $125,000: $306.25 a year $150,000: $367.50 a year
These are first-year figures. A levy approved now is charged at its full voted rate, with none of the state’s rollback credits; when the county next revalues homes, the state lowers its rate so that it collects the same dollars. Your home’s county value is on your tax bill.
4Schools
Scores, spending and budgets
Test scoresSpendingSuperintendent payBudgetThe Report Card's figuresWhere the money comes from
Dayton City’s test scores: 605th of 607 districts
Ohio’s Performance Index scores every district on its pupils’ state tests, from 0 to 120. In 2025-26 Dayton City scored 55.4: 605th 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 — 2 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, Dayton City is 796th of 871.
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| 2025-26 | 55.4 | 605 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2024-25 | 55.3 | 603 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2023-24 | 53.3 | 601 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2022-23 | 50.8 | 605 of 607 90–100% |
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| 2021-22 | — | 50.4 | 602 of 607 90–100% |
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Its schools, 2025-26
Of its 26 schools on the state’s list, Stivers School For The Arts has the highest test scores: 81.6 on the Performance Index, 1906th of Ohio’s 2,933 ranked schools.
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Stivers School For The ArtsHigh School, grades 7-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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7-12 | 81.6 | 1906 of 2933 60–70% |
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River's Edge Montessori Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades P,K,1-7. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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P,K,1-7 | 68.0 | 2464 of 2933 80–90% |
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Horace Mann Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 64.0 | 2558 of 2933 80–90% |
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Ruskin Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 63.4 | 2573 of 2933 80–90% |
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Eastmont Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 63.3 | 2576 of 2933 80–90% |
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Cleveland Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 63.0 | 2583 of 2933 80–90% |
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Belle Haven Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 59.4 | 2644 of 2933 90–100% |
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Charity Adams Earley Girls 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 | 57.7 | 2682 of 2933 90–100% |
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Kiser Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 57.7 | 2683 of 2933 90–100% |
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Meadowdale 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 | 56.9 | 2701 of 2933 90–100% |
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Louise Troy Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 56.8 | 2704 of 2933 90–100% |
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David H. Ponitz Career Technology 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 | 55.4 | 2722 of 2933 90–100% |
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Kemp Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 55.3 | 2725 of 2933 90–100% |
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Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 52.4 | 2774 of 2933 90–100% |
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Thurgood Marshall 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 | 51.6 | 2781 of 2933 90–100% |
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Dunbar 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 | 51.0 | 2796 of 2933 90–100% |
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Belmont High SchoolHigh School, grades 7-12. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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7-12 | 50.9 | 2798 of 2933 90–100% |
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Westwood Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 50.8 | 2804 of 2933 90–100% |
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Valerie Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 47.1 | 2860 of 2933 90–100% |
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Edison Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 44.9 | 2877 of 2933 90–100% |
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Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary School, grades K-6,P. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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K-6,P | 44.0 | 2885 of 2933 90–100% |
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The International SchoolHigh 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 | 43.6 | 2890 of 2933 90–100% |
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Wright Brothers Middle SchoolMiddle School, grades 7-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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7-8 | 42.6 | 2898 of 2933 90–100% |
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Mound Street 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 | 42.5 | 2901 of 2933 90–100% |
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Wogaman Middle SchoolMiddle School, grades 7-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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7-8 | 40.4 | 2910 of 2933 90–100% |
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Edwin Joel Brown Middle SchoolMiddle School, grades 7-8. Each school year: its Performance Index, its place among Ohio’s ranked schools, and its stars overall.
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7-8 | 34.7 | 2926 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 Dayton City spends per student
In 2024-25, Dayton City spent $22,858 per student to run its schools. That pays for teachers, buses, utilities and supplies for its 12,167 enrolled students; the cost of building schools and paying off their loans isn’t included. 47% 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 838 full-time teachers that year, 14.5 students for each, against 14.2 across Ohio.
The state’s School Report Card shows $14,775 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 Dayton City student’s $22,858 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 $22,858 per student to the dollar, because they are the state’s own split of it.
- Teaching$10,846 per student 47%
- Administration$3,455 per student 15%
- Running buildings$3,394 per student 15%
- Pupil support$1,845 per student 8%
- Buses$1,676 per student 7%
- School meals$909 per student 4%
- Staff support$733 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 Dayton 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–FY2547.45%
- FY13–FY2150.83%
- FY10–FY1245.90%
What Dayton City pays its superintendent
In 2024-25, Dayton City paid its superintendent $195,000, low 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 $237,000. The salary is 2.8 times its average teacher’s, $69,101; in Ohio’s middle district it is 2.0.
Its treasurer, who keeps the district’s books, was paid $183,043, typical for a district of its size.
From 2005-06 to 2024-25, its superintendent’s salary went from $137,280 to $195,000: +42%, against +43% for Ohio’s middle district and +60% for prices.
Dayton 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 2016-17, 2023-24, when the post changed hands, was shared or was reported for part of the year; the line runs straight across.
- This district$195,000
- Ohio's middle district$135,594
The state’s figures; the package is our estimate. Every district in Montgomery County, and how the estimate is made →
Dayton 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
- $114.1M
- Runs short
- FY2030
- New levy in the forecast
- None
5.4 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 →
Dayton 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. Dayton 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 Dayton City spent $278,119,190 on day-to-day costs. This page divides that by the 12,167 pupils enrolled: $22,858. The Report Card divides the same money by 18,824 weighted pupils: $14,775. 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 59% here.
Where Dayton City’s money comes from
2024-25: every dollar that came in, from every source — $22,414 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 | $71.8M | $5,897 | 26% |
| The state | $138.0M | $11,343 | 51% |
| Washington | $48.5M | $3,988 | 18% |
| Fees, tuition and interest | $14.4M | $1,186 | 5% |
| All of it | $272.7M | $22,414 | 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): $6,638 a pupil — of which the state pays $645 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: $167,244 a pupil, so each mill of tax raises about $167 a pupil. Where the state’s share comes from, including the lottery.
The rest of Montgomery County
Every district with homes in the county, largest presence first. Dayton City is one of 23.
Centerville City · Kettering City · Huber Heights City · Miamisburg City · Northmont City · Vandalia-Butler City · West Carrollton City · Oakwood City · Valley View Local · Brookville Local · Mad River Local · Trotwood-Madison City · New Lebanon Local · Jefferson Township Local · Northridge Local · Fairborn City · Springboro Community City · Carlisle Local · Beavercreek City · Tri-County North Local · Preble Shawnee Local · Tipp City Exempted Village
Montgomery 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.