Riverhead Central School District

The Riverhead school district trailed the state average by a wide margin in the controversial assessment tests. About 42 percent of eligible students refused to take the tests this spring.

The school district's transportation department has moved into new quarters on Edwards Avenue. Here's a first look inside.

Riverhead Police Officer Byron Perez and Flanders Riverside Northampton Community Association president Ron Fisher will be sworn in tonight as trustees of the Riverhead Central School District, filling the vacancies created by the resignation of two board members in June.

A secretive board of education, a powerful teachers union, an apathetic and disengaged electorate combine to create a senseless burden for taxpayers and a failing school system.

The Riverhead Board of Education honored retiring teachers and staff members and recognized newly tenured teachers last night.

Questioned by a resident, board members said nothing about accusations leveled by two longtime colleagues yesterday, which Superintendent Nancy Carney called 'misinformation' and declined further public comment.

The Riverhead Central School District has again been designated a focus district by the State Education Department, with all but one of its schools — Aquebogue Elementary School — designated by the state as “focus schools.”

Dr. Aurelia L. Henriquez was hired to succeed Nancy Carney as superintendent of the Riverhead Central School District. The East Patchogue resident comes from the Brentwood school district, where she has served as an assistant superintendent for a decade.

Dr. Aurelia L. Henriquez, currently an assistant superintendent in the Brentwood school district, has been selected to succeed Superintendent Nancy Carney, who is retiring in August.

Riverhead Central School District voters will decide the fate of the district's proposed $136,388,547 operating budget for the 2017-2018 school year and choose three school board members from a field of five candidates.