Education Archive

West Des Moines, IA – Nov. 10, Mediacom Communications is offering $60,000 in scholarship support for high school seniors who plan to obtain further education. The scholarship program is in its 23rd consecutive year and Mediacom’s investment will award $1,000 World Class Scholarships to 60 high school seniors. 

Mary (Oglesby) Miller, Baker School Class of 2016 grew up at the school surrounded by a caring faculty.

The faculty included her father, David Oglesby, uncle Rusty Oglesby and longtime family friends and surrogate uncles John Carlisle and Andy Valmus, who were high school classmates of her father and uncle in Pensacola.

Danny Meinecke grew up in the home of people in the building trades. His father and grandfather were in the heating and air conditioning business.

He was doing duct work while still in elementary school and driving a truck doing lead work in high school. But there was a side of him that always wanted to be an educator.

The year was 1938 and war was raging in Germany. It would be another three years before Japan would bomb Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II.
It also was the year what is now known as Southside Primary School first opened its doors.

On Aug. 26, Code Ninjas, an international afterschool learning center franchise with a focus on coding, held a grand opening for their Pensacola center. The center has actually been open since March 2023.

To address the overcapacity of traditional elementary and middle schools in Crestview, the Okaloosa County School District plans to open a new K-8 school next to the Southwest Crestview Bypass in the fall of 2026.

Our high school seniors are celebrating a huge accomplishment in their life as they dip their toes into the proverbial adult end of the life pool. We are excited for you as you realize your whole life is ahead of you. You have barely begun to scratch the surface of what you can accomplish. The past twelve years have all been for this moment – mostly. Some of you will go on to use algebraic equations and some of you won’t. Whatever you decide to do with your life over the next few years, do it well! Here is some advice we couldn’t resist passing along:

Joshua Gearhart of Crestview has made the dean’s list at Slippery Rock University for the spring 2023 semester. The dean’s list consists of SRU undergraduate students who earned an adjusted semester grade-point average of 3.5 or higher, based on a schedule of at least 12 newly attempted and earned credits.

The Crestview High School Class of 2023 celebrated graduation last Thursday night with 482 newly minted alumni taking part in the ceremony before a packed house at Jack Foster Stadium.

Dignitaries in attendance were Okaloosa County Superintendent of Schools Marcus Chambers, School Board Chairman Tim Bryant and Okaloosa County Commissioner Paul Mixon.

One thing students attending Laurel Hill School never have to worry about is being just another face in the crowd.

The small K-12 school offers a safe haven that some students might have difficulty finding at a large school.