Springfield Public Schools (SPS), also known as the Springfield R-12 School District, is a public school district headquartered in Springfield, Missouri, United States.
The district includes the majority of the Springfield city limits and a portion of Battlefield.
[5] In 2018, as part of a plan to sell a bond issue to parents, the district hired architects to develop plans for new schools to show to parents.
[6] In 2018, twelve of the district's schools had "secure vestibules" controlling entry, and the district was making efforts to establish more.
[7] 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.