Tinora Elementary School

Located at 5751 Domersville Rd, in Defiance, Ohio, Tinora Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school that teaches 355 students (grades K through 4), operated by Northeastern Local.

Northeastern Local comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,901 students; Tinora Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Tinora Elementary School records that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 10% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. Compared to Defiance County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Roughly 30% of students at Tinora Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Defiance County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Tinora Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 77.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 79.4%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Defiance County put median household earnings sit near $73,064, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Tinora Elementary School is one of 14 public schools in Defiance County (combined enrollment of about 5,682 students).

The closest other public school is Tinora Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Tinora Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Tinora Elementary School at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 75.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tinora Elementary School has decreased 19%, going from 438 students in 2018 to 355 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 6% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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