Longmeadow, Massachusetts
The Longmeadow Schools by the Numbers
A snapshot of one district that educates about 2,708 students across six schools. Detailed figures come from the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).
District Snapshot
Sources: Massachusetts DESE, school and district profiles.
High needs is a state count, not a score. It includes every student who is from a low income household, learning English, or receiving special education services, and counts each one only once. The median across all 396 Massachusetts districts is 46.7 percent.
District Overview
| District | Longmeadow |
| Enrollment | 2,708 |
| Schools | 6 |
| High school | Longmeadow High |
The six are Blueberry Hill, Center, Wolf Swamp Road, Glenbrook Middle, Williams Middle and Longmeadow High. Two of those names are about to become one: in September 2025 the town voted to consolidate Glenbrook and Williams into a single new middle school on the Williams site at 410 Williams Street.
Student Population
For the precise current breakdown, see the DESE district profile.
| English learners | 0.9% |
| First language not English | 8.3% |
| Students with disabilities | 19.7% |
| Low income | 12.2% |
| High needs | 29.3% |
| Per-pupil spending (in-district) | $17,708.39 |
| Per-pupil spending (total) | $18,939.86 |
Academic Performance & Context
Longmeadow’s four-year graduation rate was 96.6%. MCAS results, graduation rates, and accountability data are published and updated each year by DESE. Because these change annually, this guide links to the live state profile rather than reprinting numbers that quickly go stale.
One number here is a civics fact rather than an education one. Per-pupil spending is not set in the central office or by the Superintendent. The School Committee adopts a school budget in public, the Town Manager folds it into the total town budget, and Town Meeting votes it, in the same room, on the same night, by the same registered voters who vote everything else. The building those students learn in works the same way. On September 30, 2025 the town’s voters exempted the bonds for a consolidated Glenbrook and Williams middle school from Proposition 2 1/2, 2,129 to 1,360, on 3,490 ballots. Nine months later the same instrument was put to them for a town wide fiber network and the answer was no, 430 to 835. Two questions, one mechanism, and the voters decided both.
Sources
MA DESE, Longmeadow Student Profile (code 01590000). Accessed 2026. Debt exclusion results: Town of Longmeadow official results of the September 30, 2025 Special Town Election and the June 2, 2026 Annual Town Election.