Education Archive

Santa Rosa County District Schools has been named an Academically High-Performing School District for the 2020-21 school year again, per section 1003.621, Florida Statutes by the Florida Department of Education. This designation is based on the 2018-19 school and district grades, 2019-20 financial audit reviews and the 2020-21 class size compliance.

Greg Boozer is usually the one helping to count the votes for Teacher of the Year at Navarre High, but he wasn’t in that role this year after being nominated for the honor for the first time in his career.

Two students from Navarre High School were surprised with $1,500 grants on behalf of the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS) and presented by Dr. Karen Barber, Superintendent of Santa Rosa County Schools. The grants are part of a $1 million grant funded by Shell and the National Science Foundation.

Emily Jones, an eighth grader at Avalon Middle School, was riding the bus home down U.S. Highway 90 on a Sept. 17, when her bus driver, Roberta Temple, started feeling tightness in her chest.

Santa Rosa County School District is starting to develop its five-year strategic plan and officials are looking for input from the community.

With the decline in active COVID cases, Santa Rosa County District Schools adjusted their health guidelines for the second nine-week period which began Oct. 11.

Gulf Breeze’s Coastline Christian Academy has finished in third place in a nationwide #YearbookHero contest. First grade teacher and co-editor of the yearbook Alabanza Loera-Gracia was nominated by another teacher for balancing her responsibilities as a teacher, teaching Spanish to her first-grade students, holding multiple other jobs and still being a driving force to preserve the important stories of the year in the school’s yearbook.

It’s not every day that you build a bridge with popsicle sticks in science class. Recently, East Bay K-8 sixth graders did just that.

“The students were given the task to build a prototype bridge (engineering & design) that would be used to connect two cities together that was separated by a river, and was 50 kilometers apart,” East Bay K-8 Earth/Space Science teacher Joseph D. Pritchard said.

“I will graduate, I will succeed” is the motto at Santa Rosa Adult School (SRAS) and it’s read over the speakers every morning during announcements on ITV.

The winners of Home Builders Association of West Florida’s Tradesmen Education Council Construction Scholarship for 2021-2022 have been announced.