Longview School

HOME OF THE LONGVIEW LIONS,
We ROAR With Pride

Longview School is a separate, public special education day school that provides comprehensive educational services to students 5 to 21 years of age with severe to profound intellectual and/or multiple disabilities. Longview students are often challenged with: complex communication needs (non-speaking), limited motor functioning, visual and/or hearing impairments, complex medical and/or physical needs and/or traumatic (acquired) brain injuries.

Longview focuses on supporting each student’s success by:

• Forming positive relationships with our students and families built in a foundation of trust and presuming competence.
• Supporting each student in communicating as authentically and autonomously as possible through the use of alternative and augmentative communication (AAC), modeling, and direct instruction each day.
• Utilizing assistive technology to ensure each student’s educational environment is accessible and instructing students in the use of assistive technology to increase independence.
• Implementing a comprehensive literacy program to ensure every student is as literate as possible.
• Providing comprehensive educational programming that help students develop self-help skills, including eating, dressing, toileting and more.
• Collaborating with our secondary students in 
• Applying project-based learning tools to support secondary students in building and managing student led school business. 

Our Mission 

To foster a collaborative educational community that prioritizes each students’ individual growth, empowering them to achieve independence and an enriching quality of life.

Our Vision

Collective Agreements

We will remain student focused by:

◦ Problem solving collaboratively
◦ Communicating openly
◦ Holding all stakeholders accountable to the mission and vision