Matthew C. Perry School History
Opened: 1955
Closed: 1987
In September 1955, the US Army established the American Dependents School, and the school operated under this name until 1957 when the US Navy established a Naval Air Station and officially renamed the school Matthew C. Perry School. In 1958, the air station reverted to the US Marine Corps. The school retained its name under the new command and comprised a correspondence high school with one teacher and four elementary school teachers. In 1977, the school was separated into a high school and an elementary school, with separate faculty and principals for each school. In 1984, the two schools were once again combined into a single unit school under the supervision of a principal and assistant principal.
Matthew C. Perry Elementary opened its doors to serve both children and families in 1955 with only four classroom teachers.
For the 1981-82 school year, the elementary school was situated in a set of older buildings spread over a four-and-a-half-acre campus. In addition to the classrooms, there was a library, multi-purpose room, and audio-visual center. There were eleven educators, nine classroom teachers and two specialists, for the 270 students in grades kindergarten through six.
A newly designed facility was opened for the 1983-84 school year. The elementary facility was completed in the spring of 1985. In 1984, the two schools were once again combined into a single unit school under the supervision of a principal and assistant principal. By 1987, the schools were separated once again and remained as two separate schools.
Information from internet sites, school yearbooks, DoDDS School Information Guides and DoDDS Pacific Region, 1946-1986