Government directory/Ohio/Independent school district
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 118091

Columbus City Schools District.

Independent school district in Ohio · Census county area: Franklin.

Independent school districtSchool districtFunctioning
School system at a glance

Students, schools, and public money.

Election.org connected this entity to its fiscal year 2024 Census finance record by exact government ID and to its 2024–25 NCES district and school directory by exact agency ID.

45,181students in the finance record
116operating schools connected
$22,456current spending per pupil
Ohio’s official school-governance directory

OEDS publishes no current board-holder rows for this district.

Election.org joined this district to the Ohio Educational Directory System by exact six-digit IRN. Names never determine identity. OEDS is maintained by participating organizations, so this is a sourced public directory—not a claim that every authorized seat is present.

unique board holders published
2superintendent or treasurer roles
Visible source gap

No published holder is not the same as a vacant board.

OEDS exposes board-role categories for this organization but currently returns no active, non-private holder rows. Election.org does not invent names, authorized seat count, or vacancy status.

District leadership

Who runs the school system day to day

Superintendent

Angela M Chapman

Superintendent

Role reported from Jan 18, 2023
Treasurer

Ryan W Cook

Treasurer

Role reported from Sep 19, 2025
Ohio IRN043802
NCES district ID3904380
District typeCity
Source checked2026-08-30

Source: Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. OEDS is decentralized and each organization maintains its own record. It does not prove election method, full board size, vacancies, seat boundaries, candidates, results, meeting votes, or continued service after this dated snapshot.

Six years of enrollment and school finance

See what changed—not just one year.

Exact federal identifiers connect 6 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.

Census annual tables ↗
Enrollment45,1817.7% lower than 2019
Current spending / pupil$22,45612.6% higher than 2019 after inflation · 38.1% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$1.1B4.8% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$321.8M23.8% lower than 2019 · nominal
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 48,925; 2020: 48,759; 2021: 46,657; 2022: 45,547; 2023: 45,338; 2024: 45,18149,44947,05344,657201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $19,950; 2020: $20,188; 2021: $17,660; 2022: $21,785; 2023: $22,965; 2024: $22,456$23,708$20,312$16,917201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

20199.9% F26.6% S63.5% L
202011.3% F25.6% S63.1% L
202111.4% F26.8% S61.8% L
202218.9% F19.7% S61.4% L
202326.1% F18.5% S55.4% L
202420.9% F18.2% S60.9% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
201948,925$16,259$941,998,000$1,086,170,000$422,259,000
202048,759$16,656$964,066,000$1,104,950,000$454,776,000
202146,657$15,255$1,007,588,000$971,338,000$414,638,000
202245,547$20,324$1,037,875,000$1,021,781,000$384,106,000
202345,338$22,307$1,186,664,000$1,124,915,000$353,398,000
202445,181$22,456$1,247,119,000$1,138,650,000$321,840,000

Source-reported nominal dollars. Amount fields are converted from source thousands to dollars. No inflation adjustment is applied. An exact identifier links published source rows; it does not erase consolidations, closures, reorganizations, or other real institutional changes between years. Constant-dollar comparisons use BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average; this is not a local cost-of-living index. Joined by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID; names are never used.

Schools this system operates

Explore the schools—not just the agency record.

NCES source ↗
Where the money comes from

$1.25B in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal20.9%$261M
State18.2%$227M
Local60.9%$759M
Total expenditures$1.14B
Current spending$1.03B
Instruction$475M
Support services$511M
Capital outlay$85.0M
Debt outstanding$322M

Fiscal year 2024. Census source amounts are published in thousands of dollars and converted here to dollars; per-pupil fields are published as dollar amounts. Revenue percentages are reproduced from the source.

District contact

Columbus City Schools District

Regular public school district that is not a component of a supervisory union

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address270 E State St, Columbus, OH, 43215
Open district website →
Still needed for a complete civic record

The federal layer is useful—but it is not the whole school board.

  • Exact trustee-seat geometry, current vacancies, and appointment history
  • Complete historical board results, candidate profiles, and campaign disclosures
  • Exact attendance and board-seat boundaries for an address
  • Normalized meeting agendas, minutes, recorded votes, and decision history
  • School-level outcomes, audited contracts and vendors, and inflation-adjusted spending comparisons
The source record

A functioning Census entity.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
118091
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing address270 E. STATE ST. · COLUMBUS, OH · 43215
Census contact/title fieldColumbus Education Center
County areaFranklin

Websites are primarily self-reported and received only limited Census Bureau quality control. County area can mean the area most served or the headquarters county when boundaries cross counties.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment45,3382023

Evidence boundary

What each source proves—and what it does not.

Established by the published records

  • The entity or system appears in the 2025 Census listing.
  • Its Census category, identifier, and functioning/dormant field.
  • Only the location, function, population, enrollment, and contact fields actually published.
  • The dated Ohio OEDS public directory reports the exact IRN, NCES identifier where published, and active non-private board, superintendent, and treasurer role rows shown above.

Not established by these records

  • That the OEDS roster contains every authorized board seat or that a missing holder row means a vacancy.
  • Election method, seat boundaries, term expiration, candidates, results, or meeting votes unless another official source is connected.
  • The exact geographic service boundary or that a reported website remains current.