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How Olmsted Falls compares with the other 30 school districts in Cuyahoga County on student results, spending, and what a homeowner pays. Every number on this page comes from the state's FY2025 District Profile (Cupp) Report, the 2025–26 Ohio School Report Card, or the county's certified tax abstracts.
Olmsted Falls spends about $5,700 less per student than the county average and puts a larger share of each dollar into the classroom than all but one district. Each tile shows where Olmsted Falls ranks among the county's 31 districts.
Each dot is a Cuyahoga County district. Left is less expensive per student; up is better on the measure you pick. The shaded corner is where a district does better than the county average on both.
Choose a district (or the county average) and see where Olmsted Falls comes out ahead. The arrow marks the better value on each measure; for cost and tax measures, lower wins.
Measures are FY2025 Cupp Report figures except the report‑card items (2025–26 Report Card) and the two tax measures (tax year 2025 certified effective residential operating millage from the county's DTE 515, before state credits).
The state sorts every operating dollar into five categories. Olmsted Falls directs of spending to instruction, second‑highest in the county, and runs with one administrator for every students, compared with one per county‑wide.
Local revenue is mostly property tax. Olmsted Falls has no school district income tax.
Ohio's House Bill 920 (1976) freezes the dollars a voted levy can collect. As property values rise, the state cuts each levy's rate with a “reduction factor” so the district collects the same amount it did the year voters approved it. Here is what that does to Olmsted Falls' levies.
Residential/agricultural effective rate, tax year 2025. The 1976 levy was approved at 37.8 mills; after 49 years of HB 920 it collects at 4.43.
Every taxing unit on a City of Olmsted Falls property owner's bill, tax year 2025 (DTE 515, taxing district 00480). Voted rates total 149.37 mills; after HB 920 the effective residential rate is 67.66 mills, of which the school district is .
All figures use the certified tax‑year‑2025 rates (DTE 515, payable 2026). Credits are the 10% non‑business and 2.5% owner‑occupancy credits on pre‑2013 levies, if applicable. Actual bills also include county, city, library, Metroparks and Polaris JVSD levies.
Lowest to highest. Every district's current‑expense levies and inside millage at the certified tax‑year‑2025 effective residential rate, excluding bond, permanent‑improvement and joint vocational school levies, before state credits.
“State credits” marks levies approved before November 2013, on which the state pays the 10% non‑business and 2.5% owner‑occupancy credits. The 2007 $17 million bond issue has been retired and is no longer on the tax list.
A mill raises 0.1% of assessed value. Districts with more taxable property per student raise more from each mill, so they can run on fewer of them.
All real property in the school district, tax year 2025 (DTE 93): the City of Olmsted Falls, Olmsted Township, and the parts of Berea and North Olmsted inside the district.
Sorted best to worst for the measure selected. Olmsted Falls is highlighted; 5‑star districts are in blue.
One‑tenth of a cent of tax per dollar of assessed value, or $1 per $1,000. A home is assessed at 35% of market value, so 1 mill on a $300,000 home is $105 a year.
Voted millage is the rate on the ballot. Effective millage is the rate actually charged after HB 920 reduction factors. Olmsted Falls: 107.10 voted, 40.53 effective on homes.
A 1976 Ohio law. When values rise through reappraisal, each voted levy's rate is reduced so it collects the same dollars as when passed. Growth comes only from new construction, or from new levies.
HB 920 cannot push a district's current‑expense millage below 20 effective mills. Districts at the floor gain revenue when values rise; Olmsted Falls, at 37 mills, does not.
Up to 10 mills across all local governments may be levied without a vote. The school district's share is 5.00 mills, not subject to HB 920.
The state pays 10% of the tax on residential property, plus 2.5% for owner‑occupied homes, on levies approved before November 2013. Levies passed since then, including the 2016 bond and 2020 levy, carry no credit.
The state's annual District Profile Report, which puts every district's enrollment, revenue, spending, staffing and tax data on one comparable basis. Figures here are FY2025.
Total operating spending divided by enrolled students. Excludes construction and debt service. Olmsted Falls: $17,200; county average: $22,890.
Ohio scores each district 1–5 on six report‑card components and weights them (Achievement and Progress 25% each; Gap Closing, Early Literacy, Graduation, and College/Career Readiness 12.5% each). The weighted total is converted to stars. Olmsted Falls: 3.625 points, 4.5 stars.
A score, out of 120, that credits every level of achievement on state tests, from Limited to Advanced Plus. Olmsted Falls: 93.6, or 84.9% of the maximum.
Measures whether students learned more or less in a year than expected given their starting point. Positive means more than a year's growth.
A page‑defined measure: overall rating points per $10,000 of operating spending per pupil. It rewards districts that earn high ratings without high spending.