2025 Census government inventory

Licking Valley Local

Independent school district in Ohio. Browse the source-reported information below.

Census ID 132909 · Census county field: Licking · Functioning in the 2025 inventory
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.

2,047students in the finance record
4operating schools connected
$11,689current spending per pupil
Ohio’s official school-governance directory

2 current board holders published.

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.

2unique board holders published
2superintendent or treasurer roles
Who governs it now

Source-published school-board roster

Partial unless the source is complete
Board member

Jo Lynn Torbert

Role reported from Sep 14, 2022

Active OEDS role
Board member

Julie Alyson Stedman

Role reported from Sep 14, 2022

Active OEDS role
District leadership

Who runs the school system day to day

Treasurer

Andrew Douglass

Treasurer

Role reported from Jul 1, 2022
Superintendent

Paul A Smathers

Superintendent

Role reported from Jul 28, 2026
Ohio IRN048017
NCES district ID3904801
District typeLocal
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 ↗
Enrollment2,0471.0% higher than 2019
Current spending / pupil$11,6895.3% lower than 2019 after inflation · 16.2% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$25.3M15.4% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$1.9M69.1% lower than 2019 · nominal
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 2,027; 2020: 1,971; 2021: 2,000; 2022: 2,039; 2023: 2,062; 2024: 2,0472,0752,0171,958201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $12,340; 2020: $12,625; 2021: $12,389; 2022: $12,054; 2023: $11,710; 2024: $11,689$12,756$12,157$11,558201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

20195.3% F47.2% S47.5% L
20204.9% F47.7% S47.3% L
20218.2% F46.4% S45.4% L
202212.6% F45.2% S42.2% L
20239.6% F45.8% S44.6% L
20247.4% F47.1% S45.5% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
20192,027$10,057$24,654,000$21,904,000$5,984,000
20201,971$10,416$24,665,000$22,992,000$4,831,000
20212,000$10,702$26,195,000$22,477,000$4,430,000
20222,039$11,246$28,151,000$24,360,000$3,595,000
20232,062$11,375$29,200,000$26,221,000$2,735,000
20242,047$11,689$31,501,000$25,280,000$1,850,000

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.

Where the money comes from

$31.5M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal7.4%$2.33M
State47.1%$14.8M
Local45.5%$14.3M
Total expenditures$25.3M
Current spending$23.9M
Instruction$13.5M
Support services$9.18M
Capital outlay$1.07M
Debt outstanding$1.85M

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

Licking Valley Local

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

GradesPK–12
StatusOpen
Address1379 Licking Valley Rd, Newark, OH, 43055
Open district website →
About this school data

Census and NCES records describe this system’s enrollment, finances and schools for the years shown. Board, election and meeting information, when available, has separate sources and dates. An unlisted item means it is not covered here—not that it does not exist. Check the district’s official notices for current meetings and officeholders.

The source record

Listed as functioning in 2025.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
132909
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
2025 Census snapshot

Reported contact and location fields

Reported mailing address1379 LICKING VALLEY RD · NEWARK, OH · 43055-9450
Reported contact roleSupt

A role label, not a verified person’s name.

Census county fieldLicking
Reported websiteOpen listed website ↗

These are inventory fields, not newly verified office contacts. A county field or mailing address does not establish the exact service boundary.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment2,0622023

About these sources and their limits
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.