17-819: Springfield School District or Springfield Public Schools may refer to: Springfield Schools District 186 , Sangamon County, Illinois Springfield Public Schools (Massachusetts) , Hampden County, Massachusetts Springfield Public Schools (Missouri) Springfield Township School District (New Jersey) , Burlington County, New Jersey Springfield Public Schools (New Jersey) , Union County, New Jersey Springfield City School District , Ohio Springfield School District (Oregon) Springfield School District (Delaware County) , Pennsylvania Springfield Township School District , Montgomery County, Pennsylvania See also [ edit ] Springfield Local School District (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
34-551: A seven-person board of education elected by the public, starting in April 1911. During the turn of the century, the district had operated a teachers training school for 32 years. District 186 operates 23 elementary schools , 7 middle schools , 3 high schools , and 4 additional schools for alternative or adult education . Total enrollment in 2019 was 14,063 students, down from 15,048 in 2015. The district employs 1,020 teachers. This Illinois school-related article
51-475: A solid foundation for learning. This is ISCED Level 1 : Primary education or first stage of basic education. Within the English speaking world, there are three widely used systems to describe the age of the child. The first is the "equivalent ages"; then countries that base their education systems on the "English model" use one of two methods to identify the year group; while countries that base their systems on
68-448: A synonym, "elementary school" has specific meanings in different locations. School building design does not happen in isolation. The building (or school campus) needs to accommodate: Each country will have a different education system and priorities. Schools need to accommodate students, staff, storage, mechanical and electrical systems, support staff, ancillary staff and administration. The number of rooms required can be determined from
85-419: Is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age). Primary schooling follows preschool and precedes secondary schooling . The International Standard Classification of Education considers primary education as a single phase where programmes are typically designed to provide fundamental skills in reading, writing, and mathematics and to establish
102-657: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Sangamon County, Illinois location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Elementary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore ), elementary school , or grade school (in North America and the Philippines)
119-636: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Springfield School District 186 Springfield School District No. 186 , known as Springfield Public Schools ( SPS ), is a unit school district in Sangamon County, Illinois . Its territory includes most of the city of Springfield, Illinois , its four inner suburbs of Grandview , Leland Grove , Jerome , and Southern View , and some rural areas immediately north of Springfield. Some of Springfield's newest and most affluent neighborhoods lie outside
136-574: The "American K–12 model" refer to their year groups as "grades". Canada also follows the American model, although its names for year groups are put as a number after the grade: For instance, "Grade 1" in Canada, rather than "First Grade" in the United States. This terminology extends into the research literature. In Canada, education is a provincial, not a federal responsibility. For example,
153-516: The US, although both this term and elementary school may refer to the first eight grades, in other words both primary education and lower secondary education . The term primary school is derived from the French école primaire , which was first used in an English text in 1802. In the United Kingdom, "elementary education" was taught in "elementary schools" until 1944, when free elementary education
170-487: The district. The school system was formed in 1854 by state statute, granting the city of Springfield a school charter with power exercised by the Springfield city council. In 1869 the charter was amended to devolve power to a nine-person school board appointed by the city council. As a result of Springfield having over 35,000 population in the 1910 Census , state law caused the nine-person board to be replaced with
187-402: The education has to fulfill the needs of: The students, the teachers, the non-teaching support staff, the administrators and the community. It has to meet general government building guidelines, health requirements, minimal functional requirements for classrooms, toilets and showers, electricity and services, preparation and storage of textbooks and basic teaching aids. An optimum school will meet
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#1732798797632204-400: The floor area should be 350 m + 4.1 m /pupil place. The external finishes were to be downgraded to meet a build cost of £1113/m . There are several main ways of funding a school: by the state through general taxation, by a pressure group such as a mosque or church, by a charity, by contributions from parents, or by a combination of these methods. Day-to-day oversight of the school can through
221-492: The minimum conditions and will have: Government accountants having read the advice then publish minimum guidelines on schools. These enable environmental modelling and establishing building costs. Future design plans are audited to ensure that these standards are met but not exceeded. Government ministries continue to press for the 'minimum' space and cost standards to be reduced. The UK government published this downwardly revised space formula for primary schools in 2014. It said
238-466: The predicted roll of the school and the area needed. According to standards used in the United Kingdom, a general classroom for 30 reception class or infant (Keystage 1) students needs to be 62 m , or 55 m for juniors (Keystage 2). Examples are given on how this can be configured for a 210 place primary with attached 26 place nursery and two-storey 420 place (two form entry) primary school with attached 26 place nursery. The building providing
255-407: The province of Ontario also had a " Grade 13 ", designed to help students enter the workforce or post-secondary education, but this was phased out in the year 2003. In most parts of the world, primary education is the first stage of compulsory education , and is normally available without charge, but may also be offered by fee-paying independent schools . The term grade school is sometimes used in
272-496: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Springfield_School_District&oldid=1126870984 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
289-568: Was proposed for students over 11: there were to be primary elementary schools and secondary elementary schools; these became known as primary schools and secondary schools. In some parts of the United States, "primary school" refers to a school covering kindergarten through to second grade or third grade (K through 2 or 3); the "elementary school" includes grade three through five or grades four to six. In Canada, "elementary school" almost everywhere refers to Grades 1 through 6; with Kindergarten being referred to as "preschool." Though often used as
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