Education Archive

Ellery Markie of Navarre, a secondary education major in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Education and Human Sciences, is among a record 739 students selected to join the college’s University Honors Program this fall. The cohort is 15% larger than the previous record class in 2019.

Navarre High School is all about equipping their students with the tools needed for a successful career and life. As one teacher at Navarre High found out last week, those tools can also help build classroom furniture.

A statewide organization has recognized East Bay K-8 and its library media specialist, Morgan Evans, with the designation of 2025 Florida Power-Library School.

In early August, local students’ parents were abuzz on Facebook. A post was circulating that administrators at Thomas L. Sims Middle School were refusing to distribute class schedules to students who had an unpaid balance on their school lunch account. While this proved to be untrue, and ultimately a misunderstanding, it brought up the topic of school lunch debt, and what exactly that means for students and schools.

Each year, Santa Rosa and Escambia Counties’ middle school students venture to NAS Pensacola for a lesson in science, technology, engineering and math.
Holley-Navarre Middle School is one of the participating schools.

Keith Elliott, the suspended I.T. professional for Santa Rosa County District Schools, has not been terminated. At least, not yet.

Navarre High School Principal Kasie Windfelder was recently tapped to become the first principal of Soundside High School, a school currently being built on Highway 98 across from the Gulf Breeze Zoo.
The new school is scheduled to be finished sometime in late spring or early summer 2026, with the first class walking through its doors that fall.

A Santa Rosa County District Schools IT employee faces possible termination by the school board after several incidents involving communications with students came to light.
Keith Elliott, the employee and son of school board member Charles Elliott, is at the center of the allegations. In addition to IT, he has also served as a baseball coach.

Teaching can be a challenging and rewarding profession, where individuals have the oppor-tunity to make a positive impact in the lives of children every day.
Seventh- and eighth-grade students at East Bay K-8 School are getting a taste for teaching through one elective, “Introduction to Education.” This is the fourth year the course has been offered at East Bay.

This July, Stuff the Bus, the annual donations drive organized by United Way of West Florida, brought together Escambia and Santa Rosa County residents to support local schools and students for the 2025-26 school year.