Longmeadow High School

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Longmeadow High School
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Longmeadow High School
95 Grassy Gutter Road
Longmeadow, MA

United States
Information
Type Public
Open enrollment [1]
Established1956
PrincipalThomas Landers
Staff76.27 (FTE) [2]
Grades9–12
Enrollment958 (2017–18) [2]
Student to teacher ratio12.56 [2]
CampusSuburban
Color(s)Black and White   
MascotLancer
NewspaperThe Jet Jotter thejetjotter.com
YearbookMasacksic
Website lhs.longmeadow.k12.ma.us

Longmeadow High School (LHS) is an American public high school located in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Founded in 1956, it enrolls approximately 1,000 students. [3] The school's mascot is a Lancer.

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The original library in the 1971 addition. The space is now occupied by the fitness room, back gym, and health classes. LHSmediaCenter09-1971.jpg
The original library in the 1971 addition. The space is now occupied by the fitness room, back gym, and health classes.
A history classroom in the 1964 wing. LHSoriginal classroom.png
A history classroom in the 1964 wing.
The art department in the former high school. LHSoriginal facade.png
The art department in the former high school.
A corridor in the original building. LHSoriginal corridor.png
A corridor in the original building.
The view of the outdoors from the Grand Stair. LHSnew grandstair.png
The view of the outdoors from the Grand Stair.
The balcony overlooking Seminar B. LHSnew sembbalc.png
The balcony overlooking Seminar B.
A hallway leading to Seminar A. LHSnew semahall.png
A hallway leading to Seminar A.

It was ranked as the sixth best public school in Massachusetts in a 2011 report by Newsweek . [4] 96% of graduates continue their studies at the college level. [4]

New school building

The original high school building was replaced by a new building. The original building was demolished with the exception of the 1971 science wing, which at the time included the swimming pool, library spaces, science classrooms, and a large open classroom known as the business technology center. Construction began in 2011 and continued until April 2013. The renovated natatorium (swimming pool) and locker rooms opened in the fall of 2012, and the new school building which was constructed southeast of the original building opened on February 25, 2013, following the school's winter vacation. The new building consists of a new core section with the auditorium at its center and surrounded by a circular lobby. Around the lobby in this portion are the cafeteria, school office, library, computer lab, and special subject classrooms.

The main two-story academic wing housing most of the school's classrooms extends out to the west from the core lobby area. North of the core lobby is the new gymnasium and athletic and physical education spaces as well as the renovated 1971 wing which was completed during the summer of 2013. The reused wing was nearly completely gutted on the inside and received a completely new brick facade to match the new 2013 building with only the swimming pool and its locker rooms remaining laid out as they were originally built. [5]

The portion of the wing where the media center was now contains the fitness center, a new PE room containing a wooden dance floor, the health classroom, and a new business technology center. The northernmost part of the wing is separated from the school proper by security doors. It contains the offices of the school department and LCTV, the town's community access TV channel.

A parking lot and drop-off now occupies the space where the former building stood. A new athletic field is located where the former student parking lot was located.

A ceremony was held in September 2013 for the completion of the new high school building. The new school was built at an estimated cost of $78.4 million, and was partially funded by the Massachusetts School Building Authority. The town's portion was $44 million and included required matching funds for the MSBA's portion of the project as well as the full costs for the demolition and renovation parts of the project as they were outside the scope of the MSBA's approved program. [6]

Original school building

The original school was constructed in 1954, with subsequent additions in 1958, 1963, 1971, 1999, and 2009. [7] The renovations created courtyards surrounded by corridors. By the turn of the millennium, the high school supported a peak occupancy of approximately 3,000 students. [7]

Years of mistreatment had caused serious maintenance issues over the years. In 2009, the district appropriated money to refurbish the media center, which at the time was located in the 1971 wing. In 2010, demand for a new school grew until the town voted in favor of constructing a new state-of-the-art facility. [8] District offices were demolished the same year to make way for the proposed academic wing.

Faculty and staff moved into the new building in February 2013 and by April, the building was gone. [9]

Athletics

Lacrosse

Longmeadow has a storied high school lacrosse tradition in both the boys' and girls' programs. Since 1970, the first year of varsity play for the boys' lacrosse program at Longmeadow, the team won Massachusetts State Championships in 1970, '74–'77, '79–'81, '83–'86, '88–90, '92, '97, '08, '13 and 2022.

Longmeadow's boys' team has produced 36 All-American selections and six Academic All-American selections.

Field Hockey

Longmeadow's Field Hockey's team won its first state title in 2022, after seven previous final appearances. This was the final game for head Coach Ann Simons, who had coached the program since 1981 and was awarded the Massachusetts and New England coach of the year for 2022 by Max Field Hockey. [10] [11] [12]

Football

The 2007 team finished 13–0, a school record due to the new playoff system, and beat Leominster 21–0 in the Division 1 Super Bowl at Westfield State University.

Longmeadow held a 47-game winning streak from 2005 to 2008. The streak eventually came to an end on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2008, to East Longmeadow, losing by a score of 16-13 and ending the 47-game winning streak. However, they went on to participate in their 13th consecutive Division I Super Bowl, and went on to win their 9th Western-Central Mass State Championship over Fitchburg.

The 2014 reached the Division 2 State Championship. But they fell to Marshfield High School, 45–6. The Lancers trailed, 39–0, at halftime.

Girls' volleyball

The program has won 9 Western Mass Championships (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2021) and 6 League Championships (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012).

Boys' tennis

The Longmeadow High School boys tennis team has won 25 Western Mass titles (D-I) between 1999 and 2023.

Other sports

Programs

Music

Longmeadow High School's music program includes an orchestra, a student-run chamber orchestra, two bands (a concert band and an honors level Wind Ensemble), a jazz band, a pep band, four women's choirs, a men's choir, an honors choir, an a cappella women's choir, and an honors a cappella choir. These ensembles have gone on international tours, giving performances at Carnegie Hall and Boston Symphony Hall, and have received MICCA Festival Gold Medals. In the 50s and 60s, Longmeadow High School did musical productions such as Oklahoma and The Mikado.

In 2014, the Longmeadow Symphony Orchestra was chosen to perform at All-Eastern in Providence, Rhode Island.

Other

In June 2010, Longmeadow High School won the championship of the WGBH TV program, High School Quiz Show, defeating The Bromfield School in the final match. The school also competed in the WGBY-TV quiz show, As Schools Match Wits , where their 2010 and 2015 teams reached the finals and their 2022 team won the championship. [13]

Notable alumni

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  2. 1 2 3 "Longmeadow High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  3. ↑ Get The Feeling: Masacksic 1988, Vol. 32.
  4. 1 2 "America's Best High Schools". Newsweek. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
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  10. ↑ http://miaa.ezstream.com/index.cfm?ChnID=320&SubID=-1&chncd=320,-1&Org=MIAA&CFID=13695738&CFTOKEN=ab538653a472da3-990BAF2F-D445-A1F6-783C674A4EB6F49B
  11. ↑ https://www.masslive.com/highschoolsports/2022/11/its-a-storybook-ending-longmeadow-field-hockey-wins-their-first-state-title-in-coach-ann-simons-final-season.html
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