Medora Community School Corp vs Midvale District
IN · 185 students • ID · 150 students • fiscal year 2024 • swap sides
In one line
- Medora Community School Corp and Midvale District spend within 2% of each other per student once local price levels are accounted for.
- Midvale District directs 14 more cents of every operating dollar to instruction than Medora Community School Corp.
- Medora Community School Corp is far more dependent on local property taxes (26% of revenue vs 8%), which ties its budget more tightly to local property values.
Are these even comparable?
Establish the shape of each district before reading a single dollar figure.
| Medora Community School Corp | Midvale District | |
|---|---|---|
| Students enrolled | 185 | 150 |
| Schools | 2 | 2 |
| Grades served | PK–12 | PK–12 |
| Setting | Rural | Rural |
| County | Jackson County | Washington County |
| State | IN | ID |
| Local price level (US = 100) Above 100 means a dollar buys less here than the national average. | 93.3 | 95.5 |
The headline dollar
Current operating spending per student, shown three ways. The first is what each district reports. The second and third are the honest ones for comparison.
| Medora Community School Corp | Midvale District | |
|---|---|---|
| Per student, as reported | $14,617 | $14,764 |
| Per student, price-adjusted Divided by the local price level, so both figures are in the same money. | $15,662 | $15,461 |
| Per student, price-adjusted, excluding transport Transportation provision varies enormously between districts and states. Removing it compares the parts both districts actually do. | $15,274 | $15,038 |
| Capital spending per student Buildings and land, never folded into the operating figures above. It is lumpy: a district mid-build looks expensive for two years. | Locked | Locked |
Medora Community School Corp
Midvale District
Where the money comes from
The funding mix determines how exposed a district is to local property values, to state politics, and to federal programmes ending.
Medora Community School Corp
- Local 26.4% Locked
- State 52.4% Locked
- Federal 21.2% Locked
Midvale District
- Local 7.8% Locked
- State 84.4% Locked
- Federal 7.8% Locked
| Medora Community School Corp | Midvale District | |
|---|---|---|
| Local share of revenue Mostly property tax. A high share means school budgets track local property values, up and down. | 26.4% | 7.8% |
| State share of revenue | 52.4% | 84.4% |
| Federal share of revenue | 21.2% | 7.8% |
| Total revenue | Locked | Locked |
How IN funds its districts
Tuition support: a per-pupil foundation grant with complexity funding, almost entirely state-funded.
How ID funds its districts
We have not yet written up ID's funding formula, so nothing is claimed here.
Where the money goes
The same slices in the same order for both districts, plus the differences by function — because two pie charts side by side hide exactly the thing you want to see.
Medora Community School Corp
- Instruction 54.6% Locked
- Instructional staff support 1.3% Locked
- Student support 6.3% Locked
- Operations & maintenance 11.1% Locked
- Transportation 2.5% Locked
- Food service 5.6% Locked
- School administration 6.0% Locked
- District administration 4.9% Locked
- Other support 4.8% Locked
- Other current 5.6% Locked
Midvale District
- Instruction 64.8% Locked
- Instructional staff support 5.0% Locked
- Student support 3.1% Locked
- Operations & maintenance 10.1% Locked
- Transportation 2.7% Locked
- Food service 3.4% Locked
- School administration 0.0% Locked
- District administration 4.9% Locked
- Other support 5.9% Locked
- Other current 3.4% Locked
What is actually different
Share of each district's operating dollar, Medora Community School Corp minus Midvale District. Two pie charts side by side are almost impossible to read against each other; this is the same data as one chart.
| Medora Community School Corp | Midvale District | |
|---|---|---|
| Cents of each operating dollar reaching classrooms Instruction plus instructional staff support, as a share of current spending. | 56.0% | 69.8% |
| Administration share District office plus school administration. | 10.9% | 4.9% |
| Transportation share | 2.5% | 2.7% |
What the money buys
Staffing levels are the most direct thing a budget converts into.
| Medora Community School Corp | Midvale District | |
|---|---|---|
| Students per teacher This is a staffing ratio: total enrollment divided by teaching staff. It is NOT average class size. Actual classes are larger than this number in every district. | 8.8 | 10.0 |
| Students per counselor | Locked | Locked |
| Students per administrator | Locked | Locked |
| Total salaries All staff, not teachers alone. | Locked | Locked |
Who they serve
The answer to "but they serve different kids" — which is usually a fair objection.
| Medora Community School Corp | Midvale District | |
|---|---|---|
| Child poverty rate Children aged 5 to 17 in poverty within the district boundary. Used instead of free-lunch eligibility, which community eligibility has made unusable for comparison. | 13.8% | 14.3% |
| English learners | 0 | 0 |
| Students with disabilities | 0 | 0 |
| Enrollment change, 5 years | +20.1% | +27.1% |
Results, and results for the money
Stability and risk
The homebuyer’s real question: what is likely to change after I move in?
Medora Community School Corp
- High debt burden More than 10% of total spending goes to interest and debt retirement, money that cannot reach a classroom.
- Federal cliff exposure More than 20% of revenue is federal, a share that is unusually exposed when temporary federal programmes end.
Midvale District
No stability flags raised.
| Medora Community School Corp | Midvale District | |
|---|---|---|
| Enrollment change, 5 years | +20.1% | +27.1% |
| Long-term debt per student | Locked | Locked |
| Debt service share of spending | Locked | Locked |
Enrolling a child
The same checklist for both districts. Every "required" below links to the sentence it came from.
Medora Community School Corp
Student Registration Info - Medora Community School Corporation
Almost nothing could be read off this page — usually a portal that builds its content in the browser. Treat the column below as "we could not tell", and open the district's page yourself.
Read August 23, 2026.
Midvale District
https://www.midvaleschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MSD-Open-Enrollment-Availabilit…
This district publishes its enrollment information as a document rather than a web page. We do not read documents, so we make no claim about what is inside it — but it is the district’s own, and it is linked above. Every row in this column says "page not read". Open it yourself: it is the district's own list, and it governs.
Is a seat at your zoned school guaranteed?
Medora Community School Corp
We have no such statement from this district — which is not the same as a promise that your zoned school has room. Most districts never publish the policy in either direction. Ask the school office directly whether your address’s school is enrolling at your child’s grade level before you sign anything.
Midvale District
We have no such statement from this district — which is not the same as a promise that your zoned school has room. Most districts never publish the policy in either direction. Ask the school office directly whether your address’s school is enrolling at your child’s grade level before you sign anything.
- This is the district’s own published wording, not our summary of it. Policies are rewritten between enrollment seasons and a page can be out of date the day after we read it — the school office is the only authority on whether a particular grade at a particular school is full right now.
- A warning here is about capacity, not about your address. It does not mean your child will be moved; it means the district has told you in writing that it may move them.
- Required the page says so, and the sentence is quoted.
- Mentioned only it comes up, but not as a requirement — often a sentence saying the district cannot demand it.
- Not mentioned we read the page and it was not on it. That is not the same as "not required".
- Page not read we have no enrollment page for this district.
Documents to bring
| Medora Community School Corp | Midvale District | |
|---|---|---|
| Proof of residency | Not mentioned | Page not read |
| Proof of age (usually a birth certificate) | Not mentioned | Page not read |
| Immunisation records | Not mentioned | Page not read |
| Physical examination | Not mentioned | Page not read |
| Dental, vision or hearing screening | Not mentioned | Page not read |
| Tuberculosis test | Not mentioned | Page not read |
| Records from the previous school | Not mentioned | Page not read |
| IEP or 504 plan | Not mentioned | Page not read |
| Custody or guardianship paperwork | Not mentioned | Page not read |
| Parent or guardian photo ID | Not mentioned | Page not read |
| Home language survey | Not mentioned | Page not read |
| Emergency contact information | Not mentioned | Page not read |
| Proof of income | Not mentioned | Page not read |
| Social security number Asked for by some districts. It is not required to enrol, and a school may not refuse a child who does not provide one. We list it because districts ask, not because you must answer. | Not mentioned | Page not read |
How enrolling works
Locked 11 steps of the enrollment process — deadlines, appointments, proof of residency — are not shown. What to bring is above, and stays free.
- A blank row means the requirement did not appear on the district’s page. It does not mean the district will not ask for it — published lists are routinely incomplete, and the registrar has the final word.
- Requirements change every enrollment season. Check the district’s own page, linked above, before you gather anything.
- A district cannot condition enrollment on your child’s immigration status: under Plyler v. Doe (1982) every child resident in the district is entitled to a free public education. If a district asks for something that would reveal status, you are not obliged to provide it.
- If your family is in temporary or shared housing, the McKinney-Vento Act lets a child enrol immediately without the residency and records documents listed here. Ask for the district’s homeless liaison by name.
Comparability notes
- Cross-state comparison. Dollars below are shown both as reported and adjusted to a common price level, because a dollar buys different amounts of teacher in IN and ID.
- At least one district sits outside a metro area with its own published price index, so its cost adjustment uses the statewide index. That is a coarser adjustment.
What these numbers are, exactly
Who decides, and what it costs you
Every band above this one asks what a district spends. This one asks who chose to.
Medora Community School Corp
The district levies its own school tax
This district raises property tax in its own name. Who sets the rate varies by state — an elected board in some, a public vote in others — but the levy is the school system’s own, and it is the part of a tax bill that school politics moves most directly.
Midvale District
The district levies its own school tax
This district raises property tax in its own name. Who sets the rate varies by state — an elected board in some, a public vote in others — but the levy is the school system’s own, and it is the part of a tax bill that school politics moves most directly.
| Medora Community School Corp | Midvale District | |
|---|---|---|
| School property tax levied, per student Only for districts that levy in their own name. Blank where the county or town levies instead — see the cards above, and read the next row. | $3,750 | $99 |
| Appropriated by the county or town, per student What the parent government handed the schools, for dependent systems. This is a general appropriation, not solely property tax. | — | — |
| Property tax as a share of all revenue How much of the budget rides on local property values, and therefore on local votes. | 19.9% | 0.4% |
| Long-term debt already owed, per student The balance at the end of the year, for scale. Repaid over decades, so it is a commitment made by earlier boards rather than a bill arriving now. | Locked | Locked |
| Debt service as a share of spending Interest plus principal repaid this year, against total spending. This is the part of the debt that is being paid now, out of money that would otherwise reach a classroom. | Locked | Locked |
| New long-term debt issued, per student Money borrowed during fiscal year 2024. What this figure does and does not tell you is set out under the table. | $1,531 | $0 |
- Midvale District: issued no new long-term debt in fiscal year 2024. That is a reported zero, not a gap in the data.
- A figure in the borrowing row is not a bond voters approved. It records debt issued, and that includes refinancing existing debt at a new rate — which changes nothing about what a district owes — as well as certificates of participation and lease-revenue debt, which in many states a board can issue with no referendum at all. To find out what was actually on a ballot, check the county election office.
- Debt is repaid over decades. A large balance per student is a commitment made by earlier boards and earlier voters, not a bill arriving this year. The debt service row above it is the part being paid now.
Funding measures on the ballot
Medora Community School Corp
| Election | Measure | Amount | Yes | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-08 | Operating levy · Prop. 22-011-REF · $5.00 per $1,000 of assessed valueMedora Community School Corporation (“Corporation”) proposes to place an operating referendum on the ballot for the purpose of imposing a referendum t…Medora Community School Corporation (“Corporation”) proposes to place an operating referendum on the ballot for the purpose of imposing a referendum tax levy. |
— | — | Failed |
From the state’s own election file. Latest election on record: 2025-11-04.
What this state publishes: School referenda certified by the Department of Local Government Finance, November 2009 to date, from the department's four historic listings. The index states its own empty election periods, so a year with no measure is a year no Indiana school district asked. Indiana publishes the certified outcome and never the vote: no row here carries a yes-share, because the DLGF reviews ballot language and certifies levies and never sees a canvass. The ballot question and the dollar figure come from the determination filed with each referendum, and every determination before 2020 is a scan with no text layer, so most rows before then carry a district, a date, a type and an outcome and no amount.
Midvale District
| Election | Measure | Amount | Yes | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-11-04 | Capital levy collected 2015–2018Shall the Board of Trustees of School District No. 433, Washington County, Idaho be authorized and empowered to levy a School Plant Facilities Reserve…Shall the Board of Trustees of School District No. 433, Washington County, Idaho be authorized and empowered to levy a School Plant Facilities Reserve Fund Levy Election in the amount of $233,750.00, (Two Hundred Thirty-Three Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty and 00/100 Dollars), for the first (1st) fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015 and continuing each year in the amount of $233,750.00, (Two Hundred Thirty-Three Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty and 00/100 Dollars), for a total of four (4) years for the purpose of allowing the District to acquire, purchase or improve school site or sites; to accumulate funds for and to build a school house or school houses or other building or buildings; to furnish and equip any buildings or buildings, including all lighting, heating, ventilation, and sanitation facilities and appliances necessary to maintain and operate buildings of the District; for lease and lease purchase agreements for any of the above purposes and to repay loans from commercial lending institutions extended to pay for the construction of school plant facilities; and for any other lawful purpose; and that fifty-five percent (55%) of votes in favor is required to approve the proposed dollar amount to be collected; and that the levy amount may be reduced by action of the Board of Trustees if other funding is secured, all as provided in the resolutions of the Board of Trustees adopted on September 2, 3014. |
$935K | 47.6% | No outcome published |
One measure has no outcome in the state’s file. We show the vote share and stop there.
From the state’s own election file. Latest election on record: 2024-11-05.
What this state publishes: School district ballot questions from the Idaho Secretary of State's elections database, which states its own span as 1990 to 2024 and holds 713 questions across every local taxing body in the state. Only even-year May primaries and November generals appear: Idaho school districts may also vote in March, in August and in odd-numbered years, and none of those elections are in this file, so a district shown with no measure in a year may simply have voted on a date the state does not archive here. Local school questions begin in practice in 2014. Two things this source does not supply are left out rather than guessed at. It publishes no outcome — the winning choice it marks is the majority recomputed for display, and Idaho bonds need a two-thirds supermajority, so a measure with 60 percent support is marked a winner and failed — and so no Idaho measure here is shown as passed or defeated. And it files each question under a single county, district or the state without saying whether those votes are the whole district's: for a district lying across county lines each county canvasses its own part, so a question is published only where the source files it under the school district itself or where every county named on the ballot reported.
- A vote share is not an outcome. What it takes to carry varies by state and by measure — in some states a bond needs a supermajority and a minimum turnout while a levy on the same ballot needs half, so a clear majority can still lose. Every outcome shown here is copied from the state’s own election file, and the rule that applied is stated with the coverage above. Where that file stated no outcome we show whatever count it published and no verdict, rather than working one out from the percentage — and some states publish the ballot question without ever recording a count, so a blank there is a number nobody printed.
- These are the measures a district put to its voters, not its whole tax bill. A property tax bill also carries county, city and state levies that have nothing to do with schools, and in most states a school board can issue some kinds of debt with no vote at all.
What this band does not answer yet
The detailed figures for Medora Community School Corp and Midvale District
The verdict, the headline dollar, the funding shares, who is served and every comparability caveat are free above, and stay free. What is behind the lock is the detail you would want before acting on any of it:
- capital spending per student
- total revenue and total current spending, and the funding mix in dollars (the percentage shares stay free)
- the ten-line per-student breakdown of where the money goes
- counselor and administrator ratios, and the total salary bill
- the debt behind the risk flags — per student, and as a share of spending
- the enrollment process — deadlines, appointments and proof of residency
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