Springfield Public Schools (Missouri)

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Springfield Public Schools (SPS), also known as the Springfield R-12 School District, is a public school district headquartered in Springfield, Missouri, United States. With an official fall 2020 enrollment of 24,309^[2] students attending 35 elementary schools, one intermediate schools, nine middle schools and five high schools, it is the largest public school district in the state of Missouri.^[3] Public high schools located in Springfield include Central High School, Kickapoo High School, Hillcrest High School, Parkview High School, and Glendale High School.

History[]

It was established in 1868.^[4]

In 2018, as part of a plan to sell a bond issue to parents, the district hired architects to develop plans to show to parents to demonstrate what the new schools would look like.^[5] In 2018 12 of the district's school had "secure vestibules" controlling entry, and the district was making efforts to establish more.^[6]

Schools[]

Demographics[]

The school district has seen a rise in the number of non white students in the past twenty years, in 2000 white enrollment was 90.8%, since that time it has dropped to 75.3%, the number of black and Asian students has doubled, and Latino students have more than tripled.^[7]

References[]

External links[]

• Springfield Public Schools
• Springfield Public Schools at the Wayback Machine (archive index)