133 Ohio school tax and bond questions on the Nov 3, 2026 ballot: 132 from the Secretary of State’s list, 1 from a county’s certified list

133 questions for Ohio school districts: 132 in the Secretary of State’s list (75 tax levies, 45 income taxes, 7 combination questions, and 5 bond issues) and 1 from a county’s certified list.

The Ohio Secretary of State’s statewide list of local questions for the November 3, 2026 election has 132 school district questions. 127 belong to 121 school districts with a DistrictFacts page; 5 belong to joint vocational school districts, which have no page here. This is the Secretary of State’s list as of September 18, 2026, the date the file was last saved. It is not a county board of elections’ certified ballot, and a question withdrawn, corrected or added after that date is not reflected in it. One more question is on a county board of elections’ certified list but not in the file: the proposed bond issue of South-Western City (Franklin County), on the Franklin County Board of Elections’ certified list. It is described in its own section below and is not counted in the file’s figures, so the ballot page lists 133 questions.

By the file’s own Question Type, the 132 are 75 tax levies, 45 income taxes, 7 combination questions, and 5 bond issues. 6 of the 121 districts have more than one question: two each.

The questions, by the file’s type and description

The file gives each question a Question Type and a Description. The counts below include the joint vocational school district questions.

What the file says, and what it does not

The file describes each question in columns, not in ballot language: a Question Type, a Purpose, a Description, and a figure in a Millage, Percent or Dollar Amount column, with a length in years or “CPT”, the file’s abbreviation for a continuing period of time. In this list:

The file does not define a mill or the descriptions it uses (Additional, Renewal, Renewal/Decrease, Decrease and Replacement). The next section explains them from the Ohio Revised Code; each question keeps the file’s own words.

What the file’s terms mean, from Ohio law

Each explanation paraphrases sections of the Ohio Revised Code as codes.ohio.gov published them when DistrictFacts retrieved them on October 5, 2026, and names those sections. The state file does not say which section of law a question was filed under, so no question is matched to a section here. The ballot language a county board of elections certifies is the official wording of each question. These explanations are not legal advice and do not estimate what any question would cost.

Dollar amounts and millage, as the file lists them

Each figure from the state file is the file’s own: a millage, a percent or a dollar amount. A question the file lists with more than one figure shows each in its own column and has no single headline figure. This article does not compute what any question would add to a tax bill.

The file lists a dollar amount for each of the 5 bond questions, and no millage or percent.

Bond issues: the dollar amount the state file lists, all 5 questions

Lakota Local (Butler County)
$223,483,492
Plain Local (Stark County)
$116,800,000
Aurora City (Portage County)
$96,200,000
Southwest Licking Local (Licking County)
$80,710,000
Margaretta Local (Erie County)
$11,000,000

All 5 bond questions in the file, in order of the dollar amount it lists. Bars start at zero. Each bar links to the district’s page.

Ohio Secretary of State, Local Questions and Issues workbook, as of Sep 18, 2026

Each of the 7 combination questions states more than one figure, so none has a single headline amount and none is ranked here. They are listed in name order, with every figure the file gives:

74 of the 75 tax levy questions state a millage. The 5 highest are listed below, each with the file’s description and length beside it. This article does not convert a millage into dollars or a tax bill.

Joint vocational school district questions

5 of the 132 questions are those of joint vocational (career-technical) school districts. They are listed without a link, with the reason the ballot page gives: “A joint vocational (career-technical) school district. DistrictFacts has no district page for these districts, so this question is listed without a link.” No official list DistrictFacts holds says which school districts belong to each, so none of these questions is shown on a member district’s page.

Where a county board of elections’ list describes a question differently

DistrictFacts has read county boards of elections’ own lists for the November 3, 2026 election, retrieved October 5, 2026; each is listed under Sources. For 7 of the state file’s questions, those lists describe the question differently from the file. Each is below, with what each list says in its own words. This article, like the ballot page, shows the state file’s figures for the file’s questions.

On a county’s certified list, not in the state file

The Secretary of State’s file does not have this question. The ballot page lists it from the county board of elections’ own list, labelled as such and linked to both sources, with the list’s own words; the list prints a county auditor’s estimate per $100,000 of market value beside the rate, which is left out here, as on the page.

Look up your district

The Ohio ballot page, at districtfacts.com/oh/ballot-2026/, lists all 133 questions by name, with every column the file gives and, for the question the file does not have, the county list’s own words, and can be searched by district. Each of the 128 questions of a district with a page also appears on that district’s page.

Before and after the vote

Every question in this article is dated November 3, 2026. The article describes the questions as the Secretary of State’s file and, for the question it does not have, the county’s certified list listed them before the vote and does not report results. On the ballot page, results are added from the official results that county boards of elections and the Ohio Secretary of State publish, after the official count.

What this does not tell you

The figures are the file’s own columns, and, for the question from a county’s list, that list’s own words. They are not an estimate of a tax bill or of what a question would cost a household, and this article does not compute one. The file does not say why a district put a question to voters or whether it is needed. A useful question to ask a district is what its question would pay for and how the figure was set; the county board of elections publishes the ballot language. DistrictFacts does not recommend how to vote on any question.

This report was generated from public records by the DistrictFacts Data Desk. Every figure in it is read from the Ohio Secretary of State’s Local Questions and Issues workbook, retrieved October 1, 2026, as published on the DistrictFacts ballot and district pages, except in the section on the question the file does not have, which is read from the county’s certified list. It is the Secretary of State’s list as of September 18, 2026; it is not a certified ballot. None of the figures was typed by hand. The method is described on the DistrictFacts methodology page, and a correction can be requested from this story.

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