School Notebook: Test Costs Questioned, Students Collect Items for U.S. Troops

• Babylon Village Patch

US News & World Report recently released its annual Best High Schools report and Babylon was awarded a "silver" medal. Babylon Junior-Senior High School was ranked 138th within New York State, and comes in at number 1,099 out of 21,776 public high schools in the country. Read the now on Babylon Village Patch.

• Deer Park-North Babylon Patch

Thanks to the efforts of a hardworking group of North Babylon students, some United States troops now stationed in Afghanistan will soon be able to enjoy a few comforts of home. Read the now on Deer Park-North Babylon Patch

• Half Hollow Hills Patch

The Half Hollow Hills School District’s requirement that students in an Advanced Placement course must take an optional College Board exam in order have “AP” designation on their high school transcripts, punishes high-achieving teens with an expensive and sometimes, pointless, test claim two seniors. Read the on Half Hollow Hills Patch

• Lindenhurst Patch

The  Varsity Girls Softball team defeated Islip 8-3 at the team's annual “Friday Night Lights” game at Babylon  on May 4. Check out the on Lindenhurst Patch.

• Patchogue Patch

The 7th Annual River 5k run took place Sunday at . This year's race helped fundraise for Brian Ilg, a first-grade student, who lives with a genetic disease called Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa. Check out from the event on Patchogue Patch.

• Sachem Patch

Sachem East won this year’s annual Tim Crowley Memorial Baseball Tournament held on Saturday at the Medford Sports Complex. Read the on Sachem Patch.

• Sayville-Bayport Patch

In an op-ed piece on Sayville-Bayport Patch, one reader feels that the Bayport-Blue Point Board of Education should reduce the number of trustees to five from its current seven members. Read the now on Sayville-Bayport Patch.

• West Islip Patch

A West Islip Patch reader wrote an op-ed piece expressing her dismay over the recent closure of two elementary schools in West Islip. See what she has to on West Islip Patch.