Spring Meadow Early Childhood Center

Federal records list Spring Meadow Early Childhood Center as an elementary school in Townsend, Delaware. The school offers kindergarten and enrolls 185 students. The school is 60% below the average for elementary schools in Delaware.

Spring Meadow Early Childhood Center falls under Appoquinimink School District, which has 21 schools enrolling 12,897 students.

White students account for 45% of enrollment at Spring Meadow Early Childhood Center, more than any other group. The remaining students are 29% Black, 9% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 8% Asian. Among people living in New Castle County, the White share is about 54%. The diversity index for Spring Meadow Early Childhood Center is 69%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

Classroom staffing at Spring Meadow Early Childhood Center totals 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.9:1. The average for elementary schools in Delaware, 13.9:1, is higher.

In the wider New Castle County area, the median household earns about $91,166 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. New Castle County's 129 public schools enroll about 78,534 students and include Spring Meadow Early Childhood Center.

Spring Meadow Early Childhood Center's nearest public school is Old State Elementary School (about 0.2 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Spring Meadow Early Childhood Center.

NCES describes the area around Spring Meadow Early Childhood Center as Rural: Fringe, meaning in rural territory close to an urban area.

Enrollment fell 37% over 4 years, reaching 185 in 2024-25. The ratio was 14.0:1 in 2020-21 and 10.9:1 in 2024-25.

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