Summary:
ZIP code 43512, which covers Defiance, Ohio, contains 8 schools serving elementary through high school students across three districts: Defiance City, Northeastern Local (the Tinora schools), and Ayersville Local. Combined enrollment is 3,932 students, spread across three elementary, two middle, and three high schools, with no alternative schools. The districts differ sharply: Ayersville Local ranks in the 90th percentile of Ohio districts (5 stars), Northeastern Local in the 79th percentile (4 stars), and Defiance City in the 48th percentile (2 stars). Defiance City enrolls about 60% of the area's students but generally ranks lower.
Ayersville Elementary School is the top performer, ranking 38 of 1,560 (98th percentile, 5 stars), with 100% proficiency in 5th-grade math and every listed test above the state average. Among high schools, Tinora High School ranks highest at 109 of 795 (86th percentile), followed by Ayersville High School at 146 of 795 (82nd percentile), which also has the area's best graduation rate at 98.1%. Within Defiance City, Defiance Middle School is the bright spot, improving from the 46th percentile to the 66th.
Chronic absenteeism tracks closely with performance: district rates are 8.2% (Ayersville), 9.4% (Northeastern), and 17.2% (Defiance City). Defiance High School has the highest school-level rate at 22.1%, more than double Ayersville High's 10.0%. Graduation rates are uniformly high, all between 97.7% and 98.1%, even at the lowest-ranked high school. Spending and class size show no simple relationship with outcomes, and free/reduced-lunch data is missing for several schools, so those values are unknown rather than zero.
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