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employed and classes were paired up, with first and second grade sharing one
room, third and fourth grade sharing a room, and fifth and sixth grade sharing
the third classroom. A physical education teacher was also employed for the
school's gymnasium, which was inside a separate building. Since December 1980,
a small space underneath the school has operated as a mini-shop. Total
enrollment for the 1987-1988 school year was down to 53. In June 1988, with a
projected enrollment of just 40 students for the 1988-1989 school year, DoDDS
closed the Gamboa Elementary School. Starting in 1988, all students were bused
to Balboa Elementary. Following Operation "Just Cause" in December
1989, the school building was used as a local headquarters for U.S. Military
Police.
Gamboa's golf course became a Boy Scout camp for several years, but remained
inactive in the last years of the Treaty reversion period
