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.
| Anderson Township | School Name | Dates | Notes: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Jaun | School 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 Township | Adyeville | |||
| Clark Township | Bristow Teacher Academy | Bristow Academy for teachers was held before the School began. Class of terachers graduated in 1900. | ||
| Clark Township | Bristow 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 Township | Cherry | |||
| Clark Township | Chewning | |||
| Clark Township | Dixon Valley | |||
| Clark Township | Dry Branch | |||
| Clark Township | Forster Ridge | |||
| Clark Township | Howe | |||
| Clark Township | Hurricane | |||
| Clark Township | Indiana Creek | |||
| Clark Township | King | |||
| Clark Township | Kitterman | |||
| Clark Township | LeClere | |||
| Clark Township | Litherberry | |||
| Clark Township | Mt. Gilead | |||
| Clark Township | Mt. Plesant | |||
| Clark Township | Nix (Sylvan) | |||
| Clark Township | Oak Ridge | |||
| Clark Township | St. John section 35 | |||
| Clark Township | Siberia | |||
| Clark Township | Sigler Creek | |||
| Clark Township | Wheeler | |||
| Clark Township | 5 unidendified schools | |||
| Leopold Township | Casper | |||
| Leopold Township | Drouard | |||
| Leopold Township | George | |||
| Leopold Township | Gleeson | |||
| Leopold Township | Graves | |||
| Leopold Township | Leopold High School | (1912-1936) | ||
| Leopold Township | Marshal | |||
| Leopold Township | 2 unidentified schools | |||
| Leopold Township | Leopold Grade School | |||
| Leopold Township | Perry Central | Perry Central School Corporation Elementary, Jounior and Senior High School | ||
| Oil Township | Apalona | |||
| Oil Township | Bernardi | |||
| Oil Township | Branchville | |||
| Oil Township | Buckeye | |||
| Oil Township | Burr | |||
| Oil Township | Doolittle Mills | |||
| Oil Township | German Ridge | |||
| Oil Township | Greenbrier | |||
| Oil Township | Hahus | |||
| Oil Township | Hannon | |||
| Oil Township | Hard Scrabble | |||
| Oil Township | Haskins | |||
| Oil Township | Knold | |||
| Oil Township | Massey | |||
| Oil Township | Mill Creek | |||
| Oil Township | Oriole | 1911-1936 | Oriole Elementary and High School | |
| Oil Township | St. Croix | |||
| Oil Township | Schnoeple | |||
| Oil Township | Throop | |||
| Oil Township | Winding Branch | |||
| Oil Township | 6 unidentified schools | |||
| Oil Township | Oil Township High School | 1911 | Oil 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 Township | Bear Creek | |||
| Tobin Township | Brown | |||
| Tobin Township | Cummings | |||
| Tobin Township | Dhonau | |||
| Tobin Township | Finch | |||
| Tobin Township | Frank | |||
| Tobin Township | Gerald | |||
| Tobin Township | German Ridge | |||
| Tobin Township | Gilliand | |||
| Tobin Township | Harding | |||
| Tobin Township | Harmony | |||
| Tobin Township | Harrison | |||
| Tobin Township | Hyde | |||
| Tobin Township | Liberty | |||
| Tobin Township | Miller | |||
| Tobin Township | Millstone | |||
| Tobin Township | Ploch | |||
| Tobin Township | Rome | 1908-1935 | Rome Elementary and High School Rome High School was the third commissioned High School in Perry County. (Elementary closed in 1966) | |
| Tobin Township | Shoemaker | |||
| Tobin Township | Upper School | |||
| Tobin Township | 6 unidentified schools | |||
| Tobin Township | Tobinsport | 1912-1934 | Tobinsport Elementary and High School ( Elementary closed in 1961) | |
| Tobin Township | Rome Academy | Prior 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 Township | Boyd | |||
| Troy Township | Cavender | |||
| Troy Township | Farquhar | |||
| Troy Township | Fulton | |||
| Troy Township | Gilles | |||
| Troy Township | Gravel Lick | |||
| Troy Township | Hanburg | |||
| Troy Township | Hammack | |||
| Troy Township | Hinton | |||
| Troy Township | Hoosier Heights | |||
| Troy Township | Little | |||
| Troy Township | Lupp | |||
| Troy Township | McCallister | |||
| Troy Township | Olberding | |||
| Troy Township | Rock Island | |||
| Troy Township | Walnut Crove | |||
| Troy Township | 2 unidentified schools | |||
| Troy Township | Tell City North School | |||
| Troy Township | Tell City South Side | |||
| Troy Township | Tell City Tell Street | |||
| Troy Township | Tell City Franklin | |||
| Troy Township | William Tell Elementary | |||
| Troy Township | St. Pauls | |||
| Troy Township | Cannelton Colored School | |||
| Troy Township | St. Michaels | |||
| Troy Township | Cannelton Free School | |||
| Troy Township | Cannelton High School | |||
| Troy Township | Cannelton Myers Elememtary | |||
| Troy Township | Cannelton Wm. Bennett | Early Learning | ||
| Troy Township | Troy Public School | In 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 Township | St. Pius Elememtary | |||
| Troy Township | Troy High School | 1913-1959 | ||
| Troy Township | Troy Township School | Built 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 Township | Allard | |||
| Union Township | Badger | |||
| Union Township | Beech Grove | |||
| Union Township | Davis | |||
| Union Township | Derby | 1923-1936 | Derby High School | |
| Union Township | Dexter | |||
| Union Township | Elder | |||
| Union Township | Galey | |||
| Union Township | Howell | |||
| Union Township | Mt. Pleasant | |||
| Union Township | Oak Grove | |||
| Union Township | Pleasant View | |||
| Union Township | Rono | |||
| Union Township | Springer House | |||
| Union Township | 2 unidentified schools | |||
| Union Township | Glendale High School | (Early High School held various places in or near Derby in Union Twn.) | ||
| Union Township | Union Township High School | 1913-1938 | Union 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. |