Five-year Forecast Submissions of Traditional and Joint Vocational Districts

The five-year forecast serves as a tool to communicate and assess the financial health of a school district. City, local, exempted village and joint vocational school districts are required to submit five-year forecasts twice annually to the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce (see Ohio Revised Code 5705.391 and Ohio Administrative Code 3301-92-04) and may elect to submit additional updates at any time.

Each five-year forecast contains two components: 1) historical and projected financial data and 2) notes to explain any significant changes or “assumptions” a district used to develop the reported financial projections. For more detailed information about five-year forecast content, please visit the “How to Read a Five-Year Forecast” webpage.

For questions regarding any of the information provided here, please email FiscalOversight@education.ohio.gov.

Five-Year Forecast Part 1: Financial Data

  • Current and Historical Five-Year Forecasts by school district, by submission period. Individual forecast data files can be downloaded through this report portal.
  • Bulk data files of all forecast submissions received in each submission window back to 2008.
    • New bulk files are generally available within three business days of the closing of each submission window.
    • If a district submitted more than one time within the window, only the most recent forecast data is provided.
    • If a missing forecast was subsequently submitted in the next optional window, the district’s data can be downloaded individually through the five-year forecast report portal link provided above.  

Five-Year Forecast Part 2: Notes and Assumptions

Five-Year Forecast Analytics

  • Cash Balance Reports by fiscal year provide the ending cash balance, total expenditures and cash as a percentage of expenditures for each reported district.

Last Modified: 5/20/2025 11:16:48 AM