Mercer County Educational Support Center

Mercer County Educational Service Center employs specialized staff with the goal of providing excellence to all districts. The governing board and leadership team set the highest professional standards for all employees. We seek and retain staff who believe and live service to others and who strive to learn and grow as professionals each day. We provide our partners with experience, leadership and expertise.

• ESCs are large-scale service providers offering administrative, academic, fiscal and operational support services to Ohio’s school districts.

• Educational Service Centers (ESCs) are local political subdivisions.

• Every district with enrollment of 16,000 students (ADM) or fewer is required to be aligned to an ESC. Districts are able to realign to a different ESC (anywhere in the state) every 2 years, consistent with the state budget process, if they are not satisfied with the services they are receiving.

• Districts may purchase services from any ESC at any time – even ESCs to which they are not aligned.

• ESCs are governed by publicly-elected boards of education. Keeping with the tradition of maintaining local control of public schools, ESCs operate under the oversight of a locally-elected Governing Board. The day-to-day operations of ESCs are conducted through ESC superintendents, treasurers, and other administrators.