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Springfield School District (SSD) is a midsized, suburban, (K–12) public school district located in Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It also serves the neighboring Morton Borough. The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. Springfield School District encompasses 7 square miles (18 km 2).
There will be a new high school, with fewer than 250,000 square feet (23,000 m 2) of space. The district began planning for it circa 2009. [4] In 2015 the school board voted to build a new facility, with eight in favor and one, Bruce Lord, against. The former baseball field was chosen as the site of the new building. [5] Construction began in 2018.
Springfield Township School District was the first in Pennsylvania to adopt an official stance on the issue of access to bathrooms for transgender students. In April 2016, the school board unanimously approved a policy which states that students are allowed to use the bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their gender identity rather than ...
Detail of the datestone. The Springfield School is a three-story brick building in the Italianate style. The architect is not known for certain but has been speculated to be Thomas D. Evans (1844–1903), [16] the architect of the Samuel F. B. Morse School on the South Side, based on the similarity between the two buildings.
The former Springfield Township Senior High School building is now Phil-Mont Christian Academy. In 1922, Springfield Township planned to construct a high school to serve area students in grades 7-11. The original 12-classroom school was completed in 1924, built at Hillcrest Pond, the former site of White City amusement park.
Springfield is located in eastern Delaware County at (39.926961, -75.335231 According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 6.34 square miles (16.42 km 2), of which 6.32 square miles (16.37 km 2) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km 2), or 0.28%, is water. [1]
Morton lies within the Springfield School District. The borough is served by Springfield Literacy Center (K-1), Sabold Elementary School (2-5), E.T. Richardson Middle School (6-8), and Springfield High School (9-12). The former Sidney Smedley School is now the borough hall. It was constructed in 1914 and closed in June 1979. [12]
This is a list of school districts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a U.S. state. The article for each Pennsylvania county with more than one school district includes a map showing all public school districts in the county. Circa the late 1960s the number of school districts was 2,277.