Editing Defiance, Ohio (section)

==Education==
[[File:Public library of Defiance, Ohio.jpg|thumb|Public library in Defiance]]
The [[Defiance City School District|Defiance City Schools]] school district provides public K-12 education for the majority of the city limits. The [[Northeastern Local School District (Defiance County, Ohio)|Northeastern Local Schools]]<!--UNI 04672--> school district (which operates [[Tinora High School (Defiance, Ohio)|Tinora]]) includes outerlying portions of the city limits,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st39_oh/schooldistrict_maps/c39039_defiance/DC20SD_C39039.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Defiance County, OH|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-09-11}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st39_oh/schooldistrict_maps/c39039_defiance/DC20SD_C39039_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref> but it is a smaller school district.

Schools maintained by local [[Lutheran]] and [[Catholic]] churches also provide preschool-grade 8 education. 

There are three high schools in the Defiance area: Defiance (located in Defiance), Tinora (part of Northeastern Local Schools) and Ayersville High Schools. Tinora and Ayersville High Schools are located a few miles from the main city and serve the rural areas of Defiance County to the 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. Defiance College is a member of the NAIA and can give scholarships out to its athletes. 

Defiance has a public library, a branch of the Defiance Public Library System.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://defiancelibrary.org/about/16-about/13-locations | title=Locations | publisher=Defiance Public Library System | access-date=25 February 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225210013/http://defiancelibrary.org/about/16-about/13-locations | archive-date=25 February 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref>