Springer Middle School

Springer Middle School is one of the middle-of-the-pack junior highs in Wilmington, Delaware, run under Brandywine School District, with 776 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Brandywine School District comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 10,349 students; Springer Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Springer Middle School shows that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 34% Black, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for New Castle County indicate median household income runs about $91,166, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Springer Middle School is one of 129 public schools in New Castle County (combined enrollment of about 78,534 students).

Nearest neighbor: Brandywine High School, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 873 students in 2018 compared to 776 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 60% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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