NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Defiance, OH

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8 public K-12 schools in Defiance from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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8
Schools
3,932
Students
40/100
Avg Resource Index
17.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Defiance has more public-school enrollment than 43% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Defiance sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Defiance's 8 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 28-point gap between Tinora Elementary School and Defiance Elementary School shows the range hidden by Defiance's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 57%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
45th percentile
Teacher staffing
32nd percentile

Defiance Elementary School accounts for 27.3% of all Defiance public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Defiance-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Defiance school enrollment varies 4.0× across entities

Defiance school enrollment ranges from 272 students (lowest) to 1,075 students (highest), a spread of 803 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Defiance student-teacher ratio is 17.2:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Defiance is typically wider than the Defiance-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Tinora Elementary School 48
2. Tinora High School 48
3. Ayersville Elementary School 45
4. Ayersville High School 44
5. Tinora Middle School 44
6. Defiance High School 40
7. Defiance Middle School 31
8. Defiance Elementary School 20

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Defiance

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Defiance Elementary School 56.0/100
  2. 2 Defiance High School 51.4/100
  3. 3 Defiance Middle School 47.9/100
  4. 4 Ayersville High School 26.5/100
  5. 5 Tinora Elementary School 24.6/100

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Which Defiance school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Tinora Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Defiance schools in this federal-data comparison at 48/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Defiance, OH? ▼

Defiance has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,932 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.2:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.