Schools in Perry County

 SCHOOLS IN PERRY COUNTY

When Indiana became a state in 1816 it was the first state to provide in its Constitution for a state wide system of free public schools.  However, no funding was provided until 1846.  Nearly every Township had a log school house built by parents.  It was lighted by sunlight through windows, which in the early days were not glass but greased paper – normally not even a candle.

The style of the building from the 19th century to the 1960’s changed from a rough framed log school with outside toilet facilities.  The early schools had a vestibule to hang coats and leave lunch buckets and a water bucket and a common drinking cup.  The building was heated by a pot bellied stove.

On January 19, 1962 the State Committee for reorganization of schools approved the consolidation of Perry County Schools including an area of six townships in Perry County excluding Troy Township.  The name of the new school district was Metropolitan School District of Perry Central.  This included Oil Township High School which was named Perry Central High School and grade schools in several locations including the one at Oil Township High School which was renamed Perry Central Elementary, Siberia, Bristow, Leopold, Dexter, Rome and St. Mark.  In 1966 it was relocated to its present location and renamed Perry Central Community School Corporation which include Perry Central Elementary, Perry Central Junior High, and Perry Central Senior High Schools. The grade schools, however, were not totally consolidated until a latter date in the 1970s.  It location is between  old Indiana highway 37 and new Indiana 37 on the very eastern end of French Ridge Road bordering it on its northern edge.

Ref: book “Least We Forget”

Tobinsport Spring Normal School – Few people have heard of the Spring Normal School at Tobinsport in the year of 1901,  yet it is one of the most outstanding in the history of Perry County. A normal school is a school supported by the state for the preparations of teachers. The students at the Spring Norman School paid a tuition. The Spring Normal School turned out many of the finest teachers in Perry County.

 

Township School NameDatesNotes:
Anderson Township Adkins
Anderson Township Anderson Township Elementary
Anderson Township Avery
Anderson Township Covey
Anderson Township Dodson
Anderson Township Forks of the Creek
Anderson Township Frey
Anderson Township Gatchel
Anderson Township Hagedorn
Anderson Township Howell
Anderson Township Jarboe
Anderson Township Likenhaus
Anderson Township Miller
Anderson Township Mosby
Anderson Township Ranger
Anderson Township St. Marks
Anderson Township Sparrow
Anderson Township Splater
Anderson Township Theis
Anderson Township Walters
Anderson Township 2 Unidentified Schools
Anderson Township Elementary and High (1912-1930)School burned to the ground on December 14, 1930. The students were bussed to Tell City. In 1931 a new grade school was built on the site of Anderson Township School, but renamed Howell Grade School. At the close of Howell school the building became a private home and burnt in the 1970s.
Anderson Township Don JaunSchool Corporation was an independent school, having it's own superintendent, principal and teachers. Don Juan was Is a hamlet of 60 population. It was located in the Bottom land near state road 145 on Azalea Road and Abbott Road and used Kraus Creek as a water let, in Aderson Townwship, Perry County, Indiana
Clark TownshipAdyeville
Clark TownshipBristow Teacher AcademyBristow Academy for teachers was held before the School began. Class of terachers graduated in 1900.
Clark TownshipBristow School (1908-1962)The school was situated on the hill overlooking Bristow with grades 1st thru 12th. The school was used as a grade school after the closing of the high school until the 1960's when it was incorporated into the county wide consolidation at Perry Central. The building was torn down in 1987.
Clark TownshipCherry
Clark TownshipChewning
Clark TownshipDixon Valley
Clark TownshipDry Branch
Clark TownshipForster Ridge
Clark TownshipHowe
Clark TownshipHurricane
Clark TownshipIndiana Creek
Clark TownshipKing
Clark TownshipKitterman
Clark TownshipLeClere
Clark TownshipLitherberry
Clark TownshipMt. Gilead
Clark TownshipMt. Plesant
Clark TownshipNix (Sylvan)
Clark TownshipOak Ridge
Clark TownshipSt. John section 35
Clark TownshipSiberia
Clark TownshipSigler Creek
Clark TownshipWheeler
Clark Township5 unidendified schools
Leopold TownshipCasper
Leopold TownshipDrouard
Leopold TownshipGeorge
Leopold TownshipGleeson
Leopold TownshipGraves
Leopold TownshipLeopold High School(1912-1936)
Leopold TownshipMarshal
Leopold Township2 unidentified schools
Leopold TownshipLeopold Grade School
Leopold TownshipPerry CentralPerry Central School Corporation Elementary, Jounior and Senior High School
Oil TownshipApalona
Oil TownshipBernardi
Oil TownshipBranchville
Oil TownshipBuckeye
Oil TownshipBurr
Oil TownshipDoolittle Mills
Oil TownshipGerman Ridge
Oil TownshipGreenbrier
Oil TownshipHahus
Oil TownshipHannon
Oil TownshipHard Scrabble
Oil TownshipHaskins
Oil TownshipKnold
Oil TownshipMassey
Oil TownshipMill Creek
Oil TownshipOriole1911-1936Oriole Elementary and High School
Oil TownshipSt. Croix
Oil TownshipSchnoeple
Oil TownshipThroop
Oil TownshipWinding Branch
Oil Township6 unidentified schools
Oil TownshipOil Township High School1911Oil Township High School was first held at Branchville in 1911, later moving to Oriole. In 1937 a new school known as Oil Township and then Perry Central, was built on old St. Hyw 37, housing the high school and elementary school, closing in 1966 at the opening of new Perry Central School.
Tobin TownshipBear Creek
Tobin TownshipBrown
Tobin TownshipCummings
Tobin TownshipDhonau
Tobin TownshipFinch
Tobin TownshipFrank
Tobin TownshipGerald
Tobin TownshipGerman Ridge
Tobin TownshipGilliand
Tobin TownshipHarding
Tobin TownshipHarmony
Tobin TownshipHarrison
Tobin TownshipHyde
Tobin TownshipLiberty
Tobin TownshipMiller
Tobin TownshipMillstone
Tobin TownshipPloch
Tobin TownshipRome1908-1935Rome Elementary and High School Rome High School was the third commissioned High School in Perry County. (Elementary closed in 1966)
Tobin TownshipShoemaker
Tobin TownshipUpper School
Tobin Township6 unidentified schools
Tobin TownshipTobinsport1912-1934Tobinsport Elementary and High School ( Elementary closed in 1961)
Tobin TownshipRome AcademyPrior to the Tobinsport Normal, the school was held at Rome Academy before the High School began being held there. Rome Academy was first started after the close of the Perry County Courthouse at Rome, several prescriptions schools were also held in the building.
Troy TownshipBoyd
Troy TownshipCavender
Troy TownshipFarquhar
Troy TownshipFulton
Troy TownshipGilles
Troy TownshipGravel Lick
Troy TownshipHanburg
Troy TownshipHammack
Troy TownshipHinton
Troy TownshipHoosier Heights
Troy TownshipLittle
Troy TownshipLupp
Troy TownshipMcCallister
Troy TownshipOlberding
Troy TownshipRock Island
Troy TownshipWalnut Crove
Troy Township2 unidentified schools
Troy TownshipTell City North School
Troy TownshipTell City South Side
Troy TownshipTell City Tell Street
Troy TownshipTell City Franklin
Troy TownshipWilliam Tell Elementary
Troy TownshipSt. Pauls
Troy TownshipCannelton Colored School
Troy TownshipSt. Michaels
Troy TownshipCannelton Free School
Troy TownshipCannelton High School
Troy TownshipCannelton Myers Elememtary
Troy TownshipCannelton Wm. Bennett Early Learning
Troy TownshipTroy Public SchoolIn 1818 a Yankee named Thompson taught school, followed by George Phillips in 1819. Among other early teachers were Solomon Lamb, Aquila Sampson, W. H. Porter, John Daniel and John Litherland. The first schoolhouse was a log structure and stood where the present house now stands. It was erected about 1827, later replaced by another, which was used until 1835, when a one story brick was built, which was in 1871 enlarged by the addition of another room to the first floor and a story added and is still the schoolhouse.
Troy TownshipSt. Pius Elememtary
Troy TownshipTroy High School1913-1959
Troy TownshipTroy Township SchoolBuilt when the small township schools were consolidated in the 1930s. The name was changed to Hoosier Heights School in the 1940s, during WWII, becoming a part of the Tell City School Corporation and later becoming Tell City Junior High School which closed and is now in private hands.
Union TownshipAllard
Union TownshipBadger
Union TownshipBeech Grove
Union TownshipDavis
Union TownshipDerby1923-1936Derby High School
Union TownshipDexter
Union TownshipElder
Union TownshipGaley
Union TownshipHowell
Union TownshipMt. Pleasant
Union TownshipOak Grove
Union TownshipPleasant View
Union TownshipRono
Union TownshipSpringer House
Union Township2 unidentified schools
Union TownshipGlendale High School (Early High School held various places in or near Derby in Union Twn.)
Union TownshipUnion Township High School1913-1938Union Township High School burnt in 1936. The student then were bussed to Derby High School, which had just closed. The Derby High School then was known as Union High School.

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