Longview School

Longview Activities

All Longview students live at home and travel to school in busses equipped with wheel-chair lifts. Every bus has a dedicated assistant along with the driver. Students are “mainstreamed” into Germantown ES, Kingsview MS and Northwest HS. Matsunaga ES is a community-use school. It is open outside of the school day for community-based activities. One such activity is the not-for-profit “Bar T” before school and after school day care program open to all students. This is a great program and Longview students attend daily.

Once a week, each Longview class has a community-based activity. Classes travel out of the school from 10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Destinations have included restaurants, grocery stores, shopping malls, big box retailers, a bowling alley, adventure playgrounds and the county library. As part of the school-wide transition initiatives, vocational assessments are made and older students are placed at appropriate job sites.

The supportive relationship between Matsunaga and Longview allows Longview students to spend time in both schools. Regular education students routinely volunteer to be “Best Buddies” that visit Longview classes on a scheduled basis. Conversely, Longview students are welcomed into the regular education classes. Student interns from Northwest HS are regular participants in the Longview program. Longview has a dynamic adapted physical education program, a handicapped accessible playground and an aquatics program with a pool kept at about 90 degrees Fahrenheit.