Early districts In 1813, Brookhaven Town laid out the boundaries of all the school districts in the town. This created the school districts of the town, including the ones that would one day merge to become Longwood.
Coram District #10 was Coram, which was defined at the time as serving Coram residents as far west as the property of James Norton. Coram became District #14 in 1842. Coinciding with the district's creation, a one room schoolhouse was built in 1813. This school served Coram until 1900 when it was replaced by a new school. The original Coram one room schoolhouse is still standing today. The district grew towards the merger that would end it in its original form in 1959, as a much larger school was built in 1951 to replace the one in 1900. This school served students up to 6th grade. Secondary students in the district went to schools in the district of
Port Jefferson.
Ridge Ridge was District #22, and when it was created it was stated to be in between Middle Island and
Wading River. The district also, much like the modern district formed from a merger of districts such as Ridge, includes Lake Panamoka and Northern Shirley. The district used a school built the same year as the district in 1813. The district gained a second school in 1872, which was also used for religious services in conjunction with a Middle Island Presbyterian Church.
East Middle Island East Middle Island's district became District #17 of Brookhaven Town in 1835, after originally being District #12. The original boundaries of #17 are more similar to the modern
William Floyd School District or
South Country Central School District, including
Mastic and the
Brookhaven (CDP). The number change in 1835 occurred because of a split, creating the East Middle Island and Yaphank districts from the original District #12. This district of East Middle Island used a one room schoolhouse from 1835 until 1928, when a two room school opened directly across from the original one. The original one room schoolhouse is still standing today, but has since been relocated by the modern district.
West Middle Island West Middle Island was originally District #11 of Brookhaven Town when district borders and numbers were originally assigned in 1813, but later became District #16 in 1842. The original one room schoolhouse that opened with the district lasted all the way until 1914, when it was replaced by a more modern school. This school burned down a few years later.
West Yaphank The area of West Yaphank was known for many years as Coram Hills. When the 1813 district division occurred, District #23 served Coram Hills as far east as what is today the Mott House in eastern Coram. In 1852, the West Yaphank district had just 15 students attending school in the district. A school was built in the West Yaphank district in 1907, due to the original school being burned down in a fire. The school built in 1907 was later demolished.
Yaphank The Yaphank district was born from the division of the original District #12 in 1835 into two, Yaphank and East Middle Island. The district utilized a red, boxy, eight-sided school located in the very most northern part of Yaphank until 1856, when it was replaced by a more modern school for the time in Central Yaphank. The construction on said building began in 1854. This school would serve the district for over 70 years until 1926, when another school opened on the same property. The Yaphank Fire Department purchased and relocated the school closed in 1926. It was originally called the "Middle Island Central School District" before the Longwood name was adopted in the 1980s. The district became District #12, taking the number of the former East Middle Island and Yaphank districts. ==Schools==