Education Archive

Making an impact in a community can take years, but for the Songs it only took a couple months.

The Songs moved to Navarre in December from Birmingham.

Several Santa Rosa County school students travelled to Tampa in February to participate in the 2022 All-State Honor Band, competing against students from all 67 counties in Florida.

Several students at area schools have been honored with All-State Chorus recognition.

Woodlawn Beach Middle School will hold a STEAM night Mar. 10, its first STEAM night since 2019.

More than 200 parents and students are expected to fill the halls with curiosity, creativity and fun, following a model created after the hit TV show, ‘Amazing Race.’

Oriole Beach Elementary School had a packed house Thursday for a night of science related activities. Before the event started, 40 or so parents and students lined up along the bus ramp waiting to get inside.

Students at Holley Navarre Middle School met in the library Feb. 23 to hear a special presentation from a Santa Rosa Sheriff’s deputy concerning drug use and vaping.

Eight Navarre High School students earned a perfect score on the math portion of the Postsecondary Education Readiness Test (PERT) Feb. 16.

Joe Trujillo has served as an assistant principal to Navarre High School for the past six and a half years.

Before that he served as the dean of students at Navarre High for two years. Starting Feb. 11, he is taking on the role of principal at Avalon Middle School in Milton.

Tobacco Free Florida in Santa Rosa County introduced Live Vape Free, a first-ever program that offers tools and resources to address teen electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use.

Literacy Week was Jan. 24 to Jan. 28 in Santa Rosa County and the entire state of Florida, where students celebrated reading.

Oriole Beach Elementary (OBE) School hosted events like “Reading Under the Stars,” a 2nd grade Vocabulary Parade and more. The school library also encouraged students from all grades to participate in creating a Storybook Spud, a potato decorated to match the theme of a student’s favorite book.