Livorno ES History
Opened: 1955
Closed: 1994
Livorno Elementary School was located on Camp Darby which was halfway between Livorno and Pisa, Italy. The elementary school was a kindergarten through sixth grade facility. Originally, the schools in Livorno were part of the Austrian Occupation Forces as Leghorn American School and became Livorno schools when the occupation forces left Austria in 1955. In 1959, the principal was Thomas Hedden and there were seventeen faculty with two classes for each grade level.
The elementary school had eighteen classrooms, a faculty lounge, a health room, a reading improvement room, learning development and speech therapy rooms, and a media center. Two classrooms were utilized as an audio-visual room and an art room. The cafeteria and gymnasium were shared with the high school.
For the 1981-82 school year there were ten classroom teachers at the elementary school for the 275 students enrolled in grades kindergarten through six. The reading specialist, learning development teacher, speech therapist, counselor and part-time school nurse were assigned to the complex and served the elementary and high school. The staffing and enrolment remained consistent through the eighties.
In the nineties, the staffing remained constant with the enrollment fluctuating between 180 and 210 students in grades kindergarten through six. David Jennings was the principal beginning in the 1990-91 school year.
The elementary and high school combined for the 1994-95 school year to become Livorno Unit School.
Information from school yearbooks and DoDDS School Information Guides