The mission of Longfellow Community School is to promote in each child a love of learning, a respect for others, and a feeling of self worth that will enable students to acquire a strong foundation of academic skills and challenge them to meet their intellectual, social, emotional, and physical potential. We strive to empower children to be responsible, contributing, and cooperative participants in their community. 

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly did it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.