Educating generations of Milwaukeeans since 1886

We are now enrolling for the 2024-25 school year.

A young boy using a glue stick.

Early Childhood Excellence

Our early childhood program provides a positive, interactive, and welcoming academic home for our youngest students.

Two young students with their arms around eachother.

Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership

As a Community School, students, families, staff, and community partners work together to ensure every student is successful.

Longfellow School's rain garden.

Green & Healthy Schools

Our students develop a deep, hands-on understanding of how the earth’s systems interact, and the human impact on nature.

Grades

K3 Head Start – 8th Grade

School Hours

7:25 a.m. – 2:25 p.m.

Wisconsin RtI Center Silver Badge for Behavior
Wisconsin RtI Center Silver Badge for Behavior
Wisconsin RtI Center Silver Badge for Behavior

The Wisconsin Response to Intervention (RtI) Center has recognized H.W. Longfellow School for our work toward fully implementing a system that leads to improved student outcomes. We earned a Silver Award for Behavior and Bronze Awards for Mathematics and Reading!

Literacy and Math form a powerful learning partnership in every classroom

At Longfellow our teachers provide creative and interactive reading and math lessons – in English and in Spanish (for bilingual classrooms) – that reach students and achieve results.

News