Interesting Facts: Enrollment in 1927 was up to 2480 from 1900 the previous year, making SHS the largest high school in the state except for in Chicago It needed 8 tons of coal to heat per day. Its library contained around 10,000 books.

SHS had 120 teachers whose collective salaries amounted to only $200,000 per year, so the average salary was around $1,666 per year. The Board of Education reported that it cost $1 per day to send a student to school.

Also in 1927, $1000 was spent to beautify the campus, which is was a considerable amount back then.

Clubs: A club existed in '27 called the Springfield Scholarship Society, which resembled the National Honor Society we have today. The student must have had a general average of 85% and a 90% average for three years in at least one major subject in order to be elected into the society. Furthermore, no students were elected that in any way disgraced or discredited the school. Around 60 students were members of the society.

Very few African-American students attended Springfield High, and none of them appear to be involved in any club except Unity Club and Ramblers Club, in which there were no white members.