Ramstein High School

Ramstein American High School is a Department of Defense Dependents Schools high school in the Kaiserslautern district, Germany, which serves the European portion of DoDDS. Their mascot is the Royal, a lion with a crown.Ramstein American High School is located on Ramstein Air Base which is just outside Kaiserslautern, Germany. The Kaiserslautern Military Community, which RAB is a part of, has an approximate population of 53,000 Americans, the largest concentration of United States Military outside of the United States.The school population was at 1,057 students for school year 2007-08. There was an attempt at downsizing the school for the 2008-09 school year to approximately 850 students. However, this attempt failed with the new school population being above that of last years.AccreditationRamstein HS is accredited by the North Central Association for Accreditation. Every five years the school is visited by North Central to assess the success of the school's individual school improvement plan. The professional and auxiliary staff members at school complete an in-depth report which addresses one affective and one cognitive area that the school has chosen to address in an outcomes based school improvement plan. This self-study is submitted to the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools for their review and evaluation.Over the years Ramstein HS has been visited by the North Central Association and as a result has been recommended for outcomes-based accreditation. In addition to the accreditation visits, annual reports are submitted to the NCA, which serves as an update for the original self-study.