Perrysville School (1924) Perrysville School (1924) Location of Perrysville, Ohio Location of Perrysville, Ohio Location of Perrysville in Ashland County Location of Perrysville in Ashland County Perrysville is a village in Ashland County, Ohio, United States.

One of the settlers, Judge Coulter, picked the most beautiful spot for a village with the intentions of laying out a village, and although he had no name prepared his neighbors jokingly called it "Coulterville." Following news in the fall of 1813 regarding the monumental victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie, the inhabitants decided to name the village in his honor.

Perrysville was originally called Freeport, and under the latter name was laid out in 1815. The present name honors Oliver Hazard Perry, remembered for dominant American forces in a decisive naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie. A postal service called Perryville was established in 1820, and the name was changed to Perrysville in 1883. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the village has a total region of 0.79 square miles (2.05 km2), all land. The village is the third biggest municipality in the county after Ashland and Loudonville.

Perrysville is roughly 30 miles from the metros/cities of Mansfield, Ashland, Wooster, and Mt.

The ethnic makeup of the village was 97.3% White, 0.3% African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.7% from other competitions, and 1.2% from two or more competitions.

There were 326 homeholds of which 28.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 40.8% were married couples living together, 12.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.0% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 42.9% were non-families.

The median age in the village was 37.8 years.

24.6% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 9.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.7% were from 25 to 44; 27.1% were from 45 to 64; and 14.3% were 65 years of age or older.

There were 329 homeholds out of which 37.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 50.2% were married couples living together, 11.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 29.5% were non-families.

In the village, the populace was spread out with 29.4% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 13.2% who were 65 years of age or older.

The median income for a homehold in the village was $29,408, and the median income for a family was $35,781.

About 14.9% of families and 18.3% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 26.4% of those under age 18 and 8.1% of those age 65 or over.

Perrysville is part of the Loudonville-Perrysville Exempted Village School District and was home to Perrysville Junior High until 2012, when the school was closed and the school consolidated with Loudonville High School. Public schooling in Perrysville began in 1816 with the assembly of the first schoolhouse, taught by Asa Brown on what was then a farm.

When it was built, students from schools all over Green Township left those schools to attend Perrysville High School.

The school was prosperous in athletics, with seven notable squads between 1926 and 1952 - one women's basketball team, four men's basketball teams, a men's baseball team, and a men's football team.

The town continued to operate autonomous schools for 145 years until it consolidated with the Loudonville, Ohio school precinct in 1961.

In 1961, the last class graduated from Perrysville High School.

At this time, the Loudonville and Perrysville schools consolidated into the Loudonville-Perrysville Exempted Village School District in order to prevent the schools from method down permanently. In 1988, what had been Perrysville High School became Perrysville Junior High.

The current Perrysville Junior High School served as the home of grades K-12.

Perrysville School District competed in a range of varsity sports, including football, with the mascot of "The Admirals", an homage to the town's namesake Commodore Perry.

Data in historical populace table from US Census, 1890; US Census, 2000; "American Factfinder".

Loudonville-Perrysville Exempted Village School District - Perrysville Junior High Perrysville School Days, 1890-1961.

Municipalities and communities of Ashland County, Ohio, United States

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