GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — The community at this vast Army training center got its first look Tuesday at the long-awaited Defense Department elementary school now providing instruction to 400 students in preschool through fifth grade.
A ribbon cutting for the fully completed facility was held Tuesday, although the school has been hosting students since the spring, while construction was wrapping up.
The school cost nearly $37.5 million to build, according to the Department of Defense Education Activity, and was five years in the making.
“We have been eagerly waiting for today,” said Michelle Howard-Brahaney, DODEA’s director of student excellence in Europe.
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