Aurora, Ohio Aurora, Ohio Aurora's town/city hall Aurora's town/city hall Aurora, Ohio is positioned in the US Aurora, Ohio - Aurora, Ohio Location in the United States and Ohio Aurora is a town/city in Portage County, Ohio, United States.
It is co-extant with, and formed from, the former township of Aurora, which was formed from the Connecticut Western Reserve.
Aurora was designated a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation.
The historic suburb is home to Aurora Golf and Country Club, which hosted the 1967, 1969, and 1970 Cleveland Open.
Aurora High School is ranked tenth in the state by U.S.
News & World Report, just behind two other schools in the Northeast Ohio area, Chagrin Falls High School and Hudson High School.
Some say Aurora was the name of the daughter of Major Amos Spafford, while the rest believe the village was titled after Aurora, the Roman goddess of dawn. Aurora is positioned at 41 19 9 N 81 21 21 W (41.319254, -81.355859). It borders or touches the following other townships and municipalities: According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 24.07 square miles (62.34 km2), of which 22.92 square miles (59.36 km2) is territory and 1.15 square miles (2.98 km2) is water. There were 6,018 homeholds of which 32.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 62.5% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 2.9% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 27.5% were non-families.
Aurora is extraly home to a large Jewish population.
There were 5,047 homeholds out of which 35.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 68.9% were married couples living together, 6.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 22.7% were non-families.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 4.6% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 26.9% from 45 to 64, and 15.5% who are 65 years of age or older.
Aurora is in the Aurora City School District.
Aurora High School has been designated an "Excellent District" by the State Board of Education.
Also, Aurora City Schools earned the "Achievement of Excellence" award by the Ohio Partnership for Excellence.
Aurora earned the prestigious "Schools of Distinction" award.
Furthermore, Aurora's achievement test scores are among the highest in the state.
Aurora High School is an International Baccalaureate (IB) school, one of only six high schools in the state to achieve this level of academic study, and is the only IB school in the Greater Cleveland area.
Aurora offers 25 competing AP and IB courses, serving over 200 students.
Aurora's Harmon Middle School was awarded with the blue ribbon award in 2013.
Aurora's performance index score of 106.5 rates the precinct 17th in the state out of 613 districts.
Aurora High School has an alumni association available for alumni to turn into involved in upon graduation.
The Church in Aurora, part of Aurora's historic precinct Parts of central Aurora have been designated the Aurora Center Historic District.
In 1924, Bert Way designed the championship golf course at Aurora Golf and Country Club, positioned on Trails End.
Aurora Golf and Country Club was constructed in natural rolling terrain, with the Aurora branch of the Chagrin River being a momentous feature.
Aurora historically was the second locale for the Sea - World chain of marine mammal parks, which opened in 1970 and directed in the Geauga lake region on the northern edge of the town/city and was home to the killer whale (Orca) known as Shamu.
Aurora Farms Premium Outlets were opened in the early 1970s to serve tourists to the Aurora area.
The Aurora Farms are directed today by Chelsea Premium Outlets (a subsidiary of the Simon Property Group), and are home to 70 supply stores. Aurora High School, in 2008, were the Division III State Champions in football.
In 2016, Aurora Robotics Team TBD won the FIRST Tech Challenge world championship in St.
Jim Thome - Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball, lived in Aurora while playing for the Cleveland Indians United States Enumeration Bureau.
"State & County Quick - Facts".
"Ohio: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
"Aurora Highland Farms".
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