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Levy calculator

What would a new school levy cost you?

Choose your county and your school district to see the school levies on its bills today. Then enter the levy on the ballot — its millage, or the dollars for each $100,000 the ballot prints — and your home’s value.

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The levy on the ballot

What kind of levy is it?

A bond or emergency levy’s ballot states the millage the county auditor estimates.

The county auditor’s value on your bill or value notice — not a sale price.

Washington Local’s school levies today

On a bill in Lucas County: $1,243 a year for every $100,000 of value on a home its owner lives in.

First approvedPurposeMills now
2019 Current expenseno rollback credits 2.587
2019 Bond repayment$50,000,000 borrowedno rollback credits 2.000
2014 Current expenseno rollback credits 2.634
2014 Permanent improvementno rollback credits 0.367
2011 Current expense 2.626
2008 Current expense 1.876
2008 Permanent improvement 0.214
2004 Current expense 1.554
2004 Permanent improvement 0.536
2000 Current expense 1.996
2000 Permanent improvement 0.599
1996 Current expense 2.175
1993 Current expense 2.040
1988 Current expense 1.660
1985 Current expense 1.822
1978 Current expense 1.612
1976 or earlier Current expense 4.592
Never Inside millage — no vote was ever taken on it 4.638
All The district’s school rate 35.527

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Tax year 2025, from the Department of Taxation’s certified rates: the school levies on one real bill in Lucas County, after House Bill 920’s reduction and the state’s rollback credits. Washington Local’s own page says what each purpose means.

How this is worked out

Ohio taxes 35% of a home’s value, so each mill costs $35 a year for every $100,000. A levy approved now is charged at its full voted rate in its first year: House Bill 920 only trims a levy’s rate at a later reappraisal, and levies approved since November 2013 carry none of the state’s 10% and 2.5% rollback credits. A bond levy’s millage moves a little from year to year as the debt is paid; the ballot’s figure is the county auditor’s estimate of its average.

Today’s levies are the certified rates on a home its owner lives in; a rental keeps only the 10% credit, and this works that out when you say so. The homestead exemption is taken off the value first. A school district income tax, where there is one, is not a property levy and is not here.

This works out cost only. It is not advice, and it is not a view on any levy or on how to vote.

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.