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Panama City is a place where you'll want to live, work and play. Panama City offers plenty of watersports, with all its beautilful gulf, bay and lakefront areas. Panama City with all its beauty offers you a place to call your dream hometown. It's not too small, but big enough to host many families with its fine dining, shopping and great school system and just plain good living.
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Panama City Culture
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Panama City offers many coming attractions such as plays, musicals and hosts great concerts every once in a while. We like to throw a good festival so their's the Seafood Festival, Octoberfest, Spring Festival and many more.
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Panama City Education
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Bay County District Schools
(Area Code is 850)
General Information 872-4100
Internet Site: http://www.bay.k12.fl.us
Elementary Schools
Bozeman 265-9887
Callaway 871-2645
Cedar Grove 872-4550
Hiland Park 872-4685
Hutchinson 233-5118
Lucille Moore 872-4770
Lynn Haven 265-2131
Cherry Street 872-4780
Millville 872-4765
Northside 872-4760
Oakland Terrace 872-4565
Parker 872-4750
Patronis 233-5075
Patterson 872-4675
Southport 265-2810
Springfield 872-4575
Tommy Smith 872-7540
Tyndall 286-6481
Waller 722-4341
West Bay 233-5135
Middle Schools
Everitt 872-4790
Jinks 872-4695
Merritt Brown 872-4740
Mowat 271-6140
Rosenwald 872-4580
Surfside 233-5180
High Schools
A.D. Harris 872-4590
Arnold 236-3070
Bay 872-4600
Haney Technical 747-5500
Mosley 872-4400
Rutherford 872-4500
Charter Schools
Bay Haven Charter Academy 913-3463
Special Purpose Schools
M.K. Lewis Center 872-4775
New Horizons 873-7170
St. Andrew School 872-4595
Shaw Adult Center 872-4555
Private Schools
Kaleidoscope School of Discovery 785-0811
Panama City Renaissance School 769-5148
St. Johns Catholic School 784-4461
Curriculum: The Sunshine State Standards and Benchmarks, a listing of what Florida’s students should know and be able to do, form the basis of the curriculum offered in Bay District schools. Standards focus on seven traditional academic areas: Language Arts (including reading & writing), Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, The Arts, Health & Physical Education, and Foreign Languages. Students in pre-Kindergarten through adult education experience a varied curriculum designed to fit a wide variety of needs and interests. The school district has also adopted challenging technology standards for students and teachers that includes extensive work in computer technology.
Colleges
Gulf Coast Community College and a satellite campus of Florida State University offer educational opportunities.
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Panama City Employment
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Panama City employs a wide variety of different jobs. Most of the jobs are in the area of clerical, labor, and uniformed public safety. In order to provide an equal opportunity to applicants, vacancies are posted in the Department of Human Resources in the City Hall Building. The city has an open application process for employment.
As of 2007, the state of Florida currently has 103,261 jobs, 2,941 of which are statewide jobs. There are 1,660 jobs within 50 miles of the city and 1,320 jobs within 25 miles of Panama City.
Major employers in the Bay County area include Tyndall Air Force Base (located east of the city), the Coastal Systems Station-Naval Surface Warfare Center, Gulf Power, Arizona Chemical, Stone Container, Sallie Mae, and Berg Pipe.
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Panama City History
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Many of the local waterways and natural landmarks were named by Spanish explorers from the past. This fact is holds true for most of Florida. The conquistadors made a practice of naming the different landmarks after catholic saints and explorers. St. Andrew's Bay, which is at the center of the county is named after St. Andrew due to the fact that it was discovered on the day that the Catholic calendar designated to the patron.
Until the purchase of the land by the United States in 1819, it was known as no mans land.
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Panama City Housing
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The community development department is in the business of increasing, preserving, and improving housing that is affordable and livable over the long term. Panama City's Community Development department aids in housing, economy, and social and human services.
Housing prices for a 3 bedroom home from Jun 2002-Jun 2007 went from $129,229 to $304,411, a 21% increase during the time period. Overall, from 2002-2007 the average home price increased 18.2%.
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Panama City Lifestyle
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Panama City provides a very attractive living environment with a variety of tastes and life styles. The city life has been described as a pleasing small city which offers a great environment for raising children.
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Panama City News
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Search for "Panama City FL" - Panama City, FL - WPAP-FM Panama City
| According to one of her fellow baristas the man responded by saying, "oh yeah!" Thursday, August 21, 2008 SECURITY VIDEO: Barista gets back at flasher A man dressed in women's underwear reportedly attempted ... |
- Panama City, FL - WPAP-FM Panama City
| "It is appalling to me that people still want to invoke my father's name, five years after his death, to ascribe beliefs," said daughter Rosanne Cash. |
- Embassy Suites to Open 62 Hotels in Next Three Years; Development Pip... - Hospitality Net
| Embassy Suites HotelsA , currently with 192 hotels, is experiencing its strongest development pipeline in the brand's 24-year history. |
- Latin America Is the Value Way to Go - Mimegasite.com
| August 21, 2008 By William Ng Even more than the weak economy, the plummeting dollar has clamped down on U.S. group travel to Europe. |
- Flood watch and hazardous weather watch issued for entire panhandle - Walton Sun
| FLOOD WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 900 PM EDT WED AUG 20 2008 ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT DUE TO EXPECTED RAINS FROM FAY... ALZ065>069-FLZ007>014-212000- ... |
- Ruth K. Routon - Today in Peachtree City
| Ruth K. Routon Mrs. Ruth K. Routon of Fayetteville, formerly of College Park, passed away August 13, 2008. |
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Panama City Recreation
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The comfortable climate and friendly atmosphere provides an ideal environment for such recreation activities as fishing and other water sports. The city also offers a variety of entertainment to choose from.
The Leisure Services Division provides many recreational activities for children of all ages ranging from senior citizen baseball teams to little league and basketball. Currently, Leisure Services maintain over 220 developed acres which include tennis courts, parks, four boat launch ramps, two marinas, and community centers.
Panama City currently sponsors over 1,100 baseball and softball leagues games per year. The city parks hold over 300 events during each calendar year.
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Panama City Weather
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Panama City is known for having a comforable climate and friendly atmosphere. It makes for a popular tourist location all year long.
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