Phillips Avenue Elementary School

Phillips Avenue Elementary School received $5,000 to purchase new school supplies, thanks to the generosity of Riverhead CAP President Brian Stark and former NFL player and Riverhead Blue Waves football star Ethan Greenidge.

Riverhead 4th graders from the school district’s elementary schools took a short field trip on Wednesday to the high school, where they learned about the importance of education and veterinary medicine from two guest speakers.

An energy company seeking an exemption from Southampton’s moratorium on BESS applications faced scrutiny by Town Board members and strong opposition from the Riverhead Board of Education during a hearing on its exemption application last night at Southampton Town Hall.

Teachers at Phillips Avenue Elementary School are planning to demonstrate outside the school tomorrow to raise concerns about Southampton Town’s plan to site a sewage treatment plant in Riverside near the school.

Phillips Avenue Elementary School received a donation of $4,000 worth of school supplies from Riverhead CAP this year, thanks to the generosity of CAP President Brian Stark and New Orleans Saints offensive lineman and former Riverhead Blue Waves football standout Ethan Greenidge.

Phillips Avenue Principal Debra Rodgers reflects on 12 years at the helm of the Riverside elementary school. The veteran educator is retiring this month.

Phillips Avenue Elementary School students and parents rallied at the Riverhead Board of Education meeting last night to call for the reassignment of a beloved school security guard to the school after he was transferred to another building.

Another Riverhead elementary school will be closed until Nov. 30, following a new diagnosis of COVID-19 in a teacher, one day after the school district announced a student at the school had tested positive.

Phillips Avenue Elementary School has a popular new 'teacher,' a 3-year-old graduate of the Canine Companions for Independence.

Students created cards for seniors at the Flanders Senior Center and collected “kind coins” as part of a fundraiser to build a school in Mexico, along with many other random acts of kindness during the Great Kindness Challenge this week.