Education
Defiance City Schools provide public K-12 education. Schools maintained by local Lutheran and Catholic churches also provide K-8 education. Northeastern Local Schools (Tinora) and Ayersville Local Schools also serve rural Defiance, but each is a smaller school district.
There are three high schools in the Defiance area: Defiance High School (located in Defiance) and Tinora (part of Northeastern Local Schools)and Ayersville High Schools which are each located a few miles from the main city and serve the rural areas of Defiance County northeast and southeast, respectively, of Defiance.
Defiance College is a small liberal arts college affiliated with the United Church of Christ and has an enrollment of about 1,000 students. The presence of the college provides the community with many sports, cultural, and entertainment events that many other similar-sized towns lack.
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