Longwood Central School District
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Longwood Central School District covers 53 square miles (137 km2) in central Brookhaven Town, Suffolk County, New York, United States, and serves the communities of Ridge, Middle Island, Coram, Yaphank, and parts of Shoreham, Shirley, Medford, Miller Place, Mount Sinai, and Upton (Brookhaven National Laboratory). During the 2005-2006 school year, there were 9,518 students enrolled and 836 teachers employed at Longwood CSD.
Allan Gerstenlauer, Ed.D., is the current Superintendent of Schools.
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[edit] Schools
There are four primary schools in Longwood CSD, each serving grades 2-4 in the main building and K-1 in an annex:
- Ridge Elementary School
- Charles E. Walters Elementary School in Yaphank
- West Middle Island Elementary School
- Coram Elementary School
There are three secondary schools in Longwood CSD:
- Longwood Middle School, part of the "open school project" in the 1970s, serves grades 5-6.
- Longwood Junior High School serves grades 7-8.
- Longwood High School serves grades 9-12.
Land on which the Junior High School and High School were built was donated by Elbert Smith from the Longwood Estate.
[edit] Renovations
During the 1999-2000 school year, fences went up surrounding each school property. Construction adding four new wings in the high school, two new wings in the junior high school, one new "house" in the middle school, and complete renovation of the primary buldings and various additions to the intermediate buldings of the elementary schools was underway. The new wings of the high, junior high, and middle schools and the intermediate buldings of the elementary schools were complete and ready for the 2000-2001 school year. During the 2000-2001 school year, construction crews demolished all but one hallway in each primary bulding of the elementary schools. Major additions were completed while school was in session. The hallways that were left ended up being gutted during the summer of 2001, and they were fully restored for the 2001-2002 school year.
[edit] Grade Switching
In 2000, when most of the buildings were finished, the grades housed in each school building changed. The elementary schools went from housing grades K-5 to housing grades K-4; the middle school from grades 6-7 to grades 5-6; the junior high school from grades 8-9 to grades 7-8; and the high school from grades 10-12 to grades 9-12. Because of this change, from 2000 until 2005, the first day of classes was different for every grade. Grades K-2, 5, 7, 9, and 10 went one day, and the second day only grades 3-4, 6, 8, and 11-12 attended classes
[edit] Student Profile
[edit] Ethnicity
During the 2006-2007 school year, 61.1% of students were white, 20.3% black, 13.8% Hispanic, 3.25% Asian, 0.3% American Indian, and 0.75% Pacific Islander. [1]
[edit] Scholarship
86% of the Class of 2005 went on to college, with 8% going on to serve in the military or directly into the workforce. 78% of them earned a Regents Diploma.
[edit] Board of Education
- Judith Rice, District Clerk
[edit] Class of 2007
- Ronald C. Manning
- Michael A. Loguercio, Jr., Vice President
[edit] Class of 2008
- Philip Reany, Jr.
- B. Allen Mannella
[edit] Class of 2009
- William K. Miller
- Maureen Silvestri
- Daniel Tomaszewski, President
