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ASHLAND — Steven Burton Paramore was born Aug. 27, 1981 to Kevin Paramore and Stephanie Griggs.
He attended Taft Elementary School and Ashland Middle School, and is a proud 1999 graduate of Ashland High School.
Ashland City Schools Distinguished Alumni Series
The Ashland City Schools Foundation will be hosting its 12th biennial Distinguished Alumni banquet Saturday, Sept. 27, at the Ashland University Convocation Center.
Five new inductees have been selected and will be honored, bringing the total inducted since the first event in 2003 to 65.
This week, Ashland Source is featuring information on one inductee per day today through Friday.
While at AHS, Steve was a scholar athlete and a three-year varsity letterman in golf. He earned All-Ohio Heartland Conference honors three times and was an All-Ohioan in 1997, when he won the individual OHSAA Division I state championship.
That same year, the Arrows finished second as a team at state. In 1998, Steve was a member of Ashland’s second state championship-winning golf team.
He attended Florida Southern College, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in 2003 and played on the golf team.
At FSC, he was a four-time NCAA Division II All-American, and in 2000, he helped the Mocs win the 11th national championship in their men’s golf history.
Steve returned to Ashland and began coaching the AHS boys and girls golf teams while serving as a substitute teacher.
In 2004, he was hired as a full-time physical education teacher at Ashland City Schools. He obtained a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from Ashland University in 2009 and later completed a Masters of Education in Educational Administration in 2014 from AU.
After coaching and teaching for 11 years, Steve was named assistant principal at Ashland Middle School in 2014. Six years later, he became the assistant superintendent for Operations and Human Resources with ACS.
In 2023, Steve was hired for his current role as Ashland City Schools Superintendent. He considers serving the students, staff and community of Ashland the highest honor bestowed upon him.
Steve resides in Ashland with his wife of 20 years, Kerre. They have two daughters, Klaira and Mazie.
A proud Arrow, he can be found working as the PA announcer for AHS basketball and Ashland University football and basketball games.
Steve serves on the Board of Trustees for the Kroc Center and the United Way of Ashland County.
He has been an inductee into the Ashland County Sports Hall of Fame and also is in the FSC Athletics Hall of Fame, the Sunshine State Conference Athletic Hall of Fame and the Ohio Public Golfers Hall of Fame.