Principal's Message
Dear Silver Sands Warriors,
Our faculty, staff, and students are very excited and optimistic about the upcoming 2025-2026 school year. We start this year after having earned a Highly Effective School Grade of a B for 2024-25. That is the fourth year in a row that we have been rated as Highly Effective! We are also excited that our district earned an overall A rating from the State. Those accomplishments occurred in a state that has one of the top five most rigorous academic learning benchmarks in the country. Regardless of what challenges came our way, our students and staff remained determined and continued to move forward.
In addition to academics, we want to highlight our elective programs as they continue to be some of the highest decorated in the district. For example, our band, chorus, orchestra, and dance programs earned the highest possible rating of superior at Music Performing Assessment competitions. We are excited to announce that this year we will be adding a Guitar Program. We know that this new addition will be very exciting for the students. Currently, we have 43.5% of our 1200 students in at least one of our performing arts programs. This is the highest percentage of any Central Florida non-magnet school. If you are new to Silver Sands, I highly encourage you to enroll in one of our Performing Arts Academy programs. Our students in the Agriculture Future Farmers of America Program earned top honors at the Volusia County Fair while presenting the farm animals housed on our property. Our Technology Programs train students in the use of popular software programs that will help them be more successful in their academic studies and open different opportunities in their future. For the 2024-2025 school year we had sixty-eight of our eighth-grade students in Digital Information Technology, a high school course, earn Industry Certification in HTML. That number is larger than all of the other middle schools combined multiplied by three! And, finally, our middle school Culinary Program is second to none. Chef Colon and our culinary students cover vital information regarding ServSafe Food Safety. We cannot wait to enjoy the food our students will prepare this upcoming school year!
As I mentioned earlier, we are looking forward to the great experiences this school year withholds at Silver Sands. With the continued efforts of our students and staff, along with continued support from our families and community, we will be one of the highest performing middle schools within Volusia County Schools.
Kind regards,
Dr. Inge
Principal