The Riverhead Alternative School is a small learning environment. Our main purpose is to help students achieve their academic and personal goals which will empower them to become productive, contributing members of society. The Alternative High School seeks to help all students develop their unique gifts and potential, and seeks to provide an environment that fosters integrity, personal responsibility, and respect.

• Student success is dependent upon attendance & participation.
• Communication between the school and home is a key element in our success.
• Regularly scheduled meetings with students, parents, teachers, and administration are being held to review student attendance, behavior, and academic progress.
• Individual student goals and progress made toward those goals are discussed at each meeting.
• After school extra help sessions are available daily. Students are asked to make an appointment to stay after school for extra help.
• Because we encourage participation in extracurricular activities at the high school, there is a daily after school bus for our students in clubs and activities at the high school.
• 80% of our seniors graduated last year. Half of them earned Regents Diplomas.
  

SERVICES AND GOALS
The Alternative High School has a new School Mental Health Program this year. The collaboration of the Pederson-Krag Mental Health Services and the Riverhead Central School District will provide quality, comprehensive mental health services to students through a school-based satellite clinic program.

The goal of this collaboration is to improve student outcomes for school performance and completion of high school.

The aim is to decrease student suspensions related to behavior; to increase student attendance; to decrease referrals to Special Education; to decrease recommendations to more restrictive settings; to provide easier access to consistent mental health services to those students who are now underserved and to increase parental involvement by increased outreach, support and involvement in treatment as appropriate.

Name

Title

Phone No.

Regula, Joy.

Secretary to Director

369-7903

Counseling Office

369-7856

School Mental Health Program

369-7874

Hull, Dan

Nurse

369-7796