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A look inside: Soundside High prepared for next school year

May 12, 2026 | Hansen Hasenberg

While most Santa Rosa County schools are focused on finishing the 2025-26 school year, Kasie Windfelder is already planning for the opening of Soundside High School in 2026-27.

Windfelder is the principal of Soundside High School, the new high school on the south end of Santa Rosa County. Located in Midway across from the Gulf Breeze Zoo, the school is nearing completion. Construction cost around $115 million.

On May 1, Windfelder gave Navarre Press reporter Hansen Hasenberg a tour of the new school.

Principal Kasie Windfelder is Soundside High School’s first administrator. She was previously at Navarre High in the same role.

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