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 hamlets 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.

1 Schools
- 1.1 Sports
- 1.2 Renovations
  - 1.2.1 Grade Switching
2 Student Profile
- 2.1 Ethnicity
- 2.2 Scholarship
3 Board of Education
4 External links

[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 in Middle Island
Coram Elementary School

There are three secondary schools in Longwood CSD:

Longwood Middle School (approx. 2000 students), part of the "open school project" in the 1970s, serves grades 5-6.
Longwood Junior High School (approx. 2000 students) serves grades 7-8.
Longwood High School (approx. 4000 students) serves grades 9-12.

Land on which the High School (now the JHS) was built was donated by Elbert Smith from the Longwood Estate.

[edit] Sports

Longwood schools feature football, track, baseball, wrestling, basketball, volleyball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, and many other athletic opportunities.

[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 buildings and various additions to the intermediate buildings of the elementary schools was underway. The new wings of the high, junior high, and middle schools and the intermediate buildings 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 building 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, 63% of students were white, 19% 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.