Springfield Elementary School

:This article is about the fictitious Springfield Elementary School in the television program "The Simpsons." There are also many real Springfield Elementary Schools in the United States.

Students

Bullies

There are a number of bullies at the Springfield school.

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• Nelson Muntz (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) takes delight in the pain of others, but is arguably the least cruel of the bullies. He is notorious for his unabashed displays of schadenfreude, invariably accompanied by his trademark "Ha ha!" laugh. He is also a fan of Andy Williams. He lives with his mom, who got fired from Hooters, and is very poor. Nelson's dad appeared to have left after saying that he was going to the store. In some episodes, however, Nelson's father is still around to raise him: in one episode, he is Nelson's soccer coach. However, Nelson's dad returned in the 16th season. As it turned out, his dad took a bite out of a chocolate bar, not knowing it had peanuts and had an allergic reaction. He ran out of the store and ran into a circus, who mistook him for a freak, taking him along for years. It is assumed that Nelson, unlike his peers Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney, is actually a sensitive boy who was raised in the wrong circumstances. So far the only two people to notice this are Marge, who played surrogate mother to him in one episode, and Lisa, who dated him briefly.
• Weasel #1 and Weasel #2 are Nelson's cronies from the episode "Bart the General". They have made a number of background appearances since then.
• Jimbo Jones (voiced by Pamela Hayden) wears a toque and a black T-shirt with a skull on it. He enjoys torturing his schoolmates and shoplifting. In one episode it is hinted that he comes from a well-off family. In another episode Jimbo becomes the boyfriend of Bart's babysitter Laura Powers (voiced by Sara Gilbert), whom Bart had a crush on. In one of the Halloween editions, he was turned into hamburger patties by Principal Skinner.
• Kearney (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) is a pudgy kid with a disarming habit of punching his fist into his other hand. Although he appears to be of similar age to Bart, he can drive, has dated Jimbo's mother (though he insists she initiated the affair), and has been seen shaving and has a young son (who sleeps in a drawer). He is said to have witnessed the Bicentennial of the United States and remembering the mood of the country following Watergate, making him at least in his late twenties to early thirties. His father used to work at KFC. In an episode where Professor Frink's astrology machine is used, he is the principal. He also owns a Hyundai.
• Dolph (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is another bully who is rarely seen without Jimbo and/or Kearney. One of his eyes is usually covered by his long hair.
• Francine (voiced by guest star Kathy Griffin) is a girl who bullied Lisa in the episode "Bye Bye Nerdie".
• Sarah (voiced by Russi Taylor) is a girl who pushes Lisa over in the episode "Lisa's Rival".
• Several unnamed girls play keepaway with Lisa's prescription shoes in the episode "Home Sweet Home-Diddily-Dum-Doodily".

Other students

Other students include:

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• Üter is the German foreign exchange student, with odd habits such as offering his already-licked lollipops to others as a sign of friendship, and eating marzipan candies fortified with iodine. He disappeared for a period of time after the Civil War field trip, when the people running the reenactment they visited noticed that the students had snuck in and gave chase. Üter was left behind to be clubbed with the butts of the faux rifles that the men reenacting the Civil War were wielding. Although a joke was made of this event in a later episode, with Üter's parents asking Skinner where their missing son was, he has since reappeared, alive and plump. In the German version of the show Üter is an exchange student from Switzerland; Üter's lederhosen, his frequent references to chocolate, and his name suggest a Swiss rather than a German origin.
• Ralph Wiggum, son of Chief Clancy Wiggum. He is considered by many to be psychologically abnormal.
• Sherri and Terri, twin sisters. They are an annoyance to Bart and bother him constantly.
• Milhouse Van Houten, Bart's best friend. There is a running joke that he is gay, despite the fact that he has a crush on Lisa.
• Martin Prince, an exceptionally outstanding fourth grader. Martin Prince would have been assessed to be a genius, had Bart not switched their I.Q. tests. He was a reporter for The Fourth Gradian. He was also the student body president until one of his fundraisers ended in a disaster.
• Wendell, a pale kid who vomits easily. He voted for Martin Prince in the class presidential election that featured Martin and Bart Simpson as the front-runners.
• Lewis was a friend of Bart's (and Wendell's) in earlier seasons. He could be the possible son of Carl Carlson, Homer Simpson's supervisor at the power plant, making his last name Carlson. He was often seen with Wendell, and names were sometimes mixed up by accident, as shown:

(As schoolbus crashes in sea)

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Bart: Well, I guess this is the end, Wendell.

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Lewis: I'm Lewis, he's Wendell.

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(Points to Wendell)

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Bart: Well, just tell Wendell I said bye.

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