Yokota High School

Yokota High School
Location
Yokota Air Base, Tokyo, Japan
Coordinates 35°43′46.8″N 139°20′36.4″E / 35.729667°N 139.343444°E / 35.729667; 139.343444
Information
School type Public
School district Dodea Pacific
Principal Ms. Priscilla Hill
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 265
Student to teacher ratio 18:1
Colour(s)

Blue and Gold

         
Mascot Panthers
Website www.dodea.edu/YokotaHS/index.cfm

Yokota High School (YHS) is a high school located on Yokota Air Base, Japan. It is part of the Department of Defense Education Activity.

History

Yokota High School started construction in the 1970s after a deal was stuck with the Government of Japan to modernize Yokota Air Base in exchange for Air Force property in Greater Tokyo.[1] Yokota High School officially opened in 1973. The school was designed as a "school with open doors" and students had a modular schedule containing 27 mods that they could choose from. The modular schedule continued under the next 2 principals. [2]

Yokota High School construction in April 1973

Renovations

The school has gone through some renovations including a artificial turf field with a track around it and has Football and Soccer Lines that were built in 2012 costing $1.2 million.[3]

New school

The New Yokota High School completed in 2017

Starting in 2015 a new school was planned and the breaking ground ceremony took place on May 19, 2015; officially starting the construction period for the new school. The new school was built and completed in August 2017.[4] Most of the old building will be torn down to make way for a soccer field and open land that will be given back to the Air Force. The new building is a 21st-century school and is the second 21st-century school in DoDEA. Each classroom has movable glass walls that were built to reflect the new method of learning which values collaboration.[5]

Extracurricular activites

Yokota High School offers a great amount of extracurricular activities for Academics or Sports for students to participate in. Most also have Far East Programs.[6]

Yokota High School JROTC

Academics

  • Spanish Club
  • Yearbook
Yokota Cheerleaders

Sports

Fall sports

Winter sports

Spring sports

References

  1. ↑ "Yokota History Article Part 6: The Kanto Plain Consolidation Plan, 197". Yokota Air Base. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  2. ↑ "About Our School". www.dodea.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  3. ↑ "Yokota joins list of DOD schools with artificial turf field". Stars and Stripes. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  4. ↑ "Breaking ground for new Yokota High School". Yokota Air Base. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  5. ↑ "DODEA celebrates its latest '21st Century' school at Yokota Air Base". Stars and Stripes. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  6. ↑ "Extracurricular Activities - Yokota High School". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
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