Our school, staff, and students are continuously enriched by their ongoing gifts of time, services and resources, creativity and collaboration.

Children’s Wisconsin

Kids do their best work in the classroom and have the most fun at recess when they’re thriving physically, mentally, and emotionally. School nurses from Children’s Wisconsin help Longfellow staff improve students’ overall health by assessing their needs and finding ways to meet those needs by working with family members, medical providers, social workers, school support staff, and mental and behavioral health professionals. You can contact the Longfellow School nurse at (414) 902-9830.

Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young employees coordinate Longfellow School’s Junior Achievement financial literacy program, donate backpacks to our students, and support the district-wide school-supply drive. You may also meet Ernst & Young volunteers in our gardens or on the playground during Longfellow’s Neighborhood Cleanup events.

Journey House

Just a five-minute walk from Longfellow School, Journey House is a nonprofit community center and our partner organization through the Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership, providing academic, athletic, educational, and workforce development programs for Milwaukee children and families. Many Longfellow students participate in Journey House’s Felix Mantilla Baseball League, soccer league, camps, and performing arts classes after school and on weekends.

Journey House hosts our after-school academic enrichment program, the Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center at Longfellow School. Students from K4 through first eighth-grade can attend the Community Learning Center on school days.

Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership

H.W. Longfellow School is proud to be a member of the Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership (MCSP). Through MCSP, our students, families, teachers, staff, neighbors, and partners come together to form a strategy that best meets the needs of our students.

The MCSP is made up of three key partners with the core values of shared leadership, equity, and cultural relevance:

• Milwaukee Public Schools
• Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association
• United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County

Reflo

Annually, Reflo works with partners including Milwaukee Public Schools, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, the City of Milwaukee, the Fund for Lake Michigan, Community Design Solutions and others to support Milwaukee-area schools in an intensive, collaborative process to design and then redevelop greener, healthier schoolyards. Longfellow School’s redeveloped schoolyard opened in 2020.

Each redevelopment project is tailored to the specific needs and enthusiasm of the school’s community but often involves replacing seas of asphalt with green infrastructure including bioswales, rain gardens, and trees as well as outdoor classrooms, improved recreational facilities and arts opportunities. Designs go beyond removing pavement to maximize benefits for communities, the environment, and local economy.