Graduation

Highlights and photos from Riverhead High School's Class of 2025 graduation ceremony Friday night, a ceremony filled many emotional moments and much joy.

The Class of 2024 celebrated its high school graduation yesterday in a late afternoon commencement ceremony at Coach Mike McKillop Memorial Field. Photo gallery.

“Every year of your high school education was affected in some way by the lasting consequences of the pandemic,” School Superintendent Augustine Tornatore told the graduates, who started high school in the fall of 2019. “Instead of wilting in the face of that incredible challenge, however, you thrived.” Photo gallery.

Riverhead High School’s four-year graduation rate dropped slightly in 2022 to 81%, below the state average of 87%, while the graduation rate for English language learners jumped from 49% in 2021 to 59% in 2022.

Photo gallery from the Riverhead High School Class of 2022 graduation ceremonies June 24.

Though the graduation ceremony may have outwardly seemed like any other, it was anything but ordinary, culminsting, as it did, a year of extraordinary challenges. Photos.

In partnership with local businesses and Peconic Bay Medical Center, CAP is placing 2-inch stickers on participating businesses' items — like deli sandwiches, take out bags and coffee cups — which say: “Congratulations Class of 2021. Live Your Best Life: Celebrate Sober.”

Riverhead schools will have in-person graduation and moving up ceremonies this year with COVID restrictions and allowing two guests per student, according to Interim Superintendent Christine Tona.

Riverhead High School’s graduation rate dropped to 79% in 2020, down from 82% in 2019 and 84% in 2018. But the overall graduation rate does not tell the whole story, as a deeper dive into data released this month by the State Education Department shows.

Riverhead High School awarded diplomas to four groups of students today in its first series of outdoor diploma ceremonies.