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At the beginning of the 2025-26 school year Superintendent Matt Geha and Treasurer Ryan Lockwood will resume their efforts to host regular community gatherings to meet informally with residents.

All meetings are held at the Everett W. Harris Administrative and Educational Complex (6924 Spring Valley Drive in Holland across from Biggby). For more school board information, please click here.

They have enjoyed listening to ideas and concerns, discussing school finances, and creating solid, cooperative partnerships that enrich the education provided to each student.

General Information

The Springfield Local School (SLS) District was established in 1881 (to read more about the district's rich history, click on the "History" link on this site. It is now numbers in the top 125 largest (of 611 city, local, and exempted village) public school district in the state of Ohio.

SLS is located in Lucas County in northwestern Ohio, approximately 72-miles east of the Ohio-Indiana border and within five miles of the Ohio-Michigan border. The total service area is approximately 25-square miles.

SLS provides education to approximately 3,800 students beginning in pre-kindergarten classrooms and continuing through Grade 12 who live:

  • in the Village of Holland
  • in Springfield Township
  • in neighborhoods within the district with mailing addresses in Maumee, Monclova Township, and south Toledo (zip codes of 43528 and parts of 43537, 43542, 43614, 43615, and 43617).

Those interested in the demographics of our diverse community will be interested to learn that:

  • Springfield Township has 26,957 residents
  • The Village of Holland has 1,764 residents
  • Total District populations is 28,721 residents

revised in August, 2023

District
  • Per Pupil Expenditure: $12,983
  • Median Household Income: $69,577
  • Median Home Value: $204,300

updated August, 2024