THE ADDIS ABABA AMERICAN SCHOOL

New information concerning The Addis Ababa American School (AAAS) will be available soon.

AAAS was replaced at the end of the 1966 school year by ACS, the American Community School of Addis Ababa. 

ACS changed to ICS  "The International Community School of Addis Ababa"  in the 1978-1979 school year and is still in operation today.

On April 29, 1964, His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I granted a 50 year lease on a 15 acre tract of land (southeast of the Imperial Golf Course and old International Airport) for the establishment of the American Community School of Addis Ababa.

To my knowledge there were no ACS yearbooks printed for school years 1965 and 1966 but there were class photos taken which were made available to the students. If you have any of those photos, and are willing to share them on this Web site, please scan them and send them in.

In the interest of privacy, I am limiting access to the American Community School yearbooks posted on this Web site to the people who appear in those yearbooks (and their family members).

Please contact me for password and username information.  LeeMiller@ethi-usmappingmission.com.

The yearbooks are listed under the "ACS Yearbooks" main tab.

CD or DVD copies of the 1964 American School (Eagle) yearbook and the 1967 through 1974 ACS (Jib) yearbooks are available at the MMStore.  Proceeds from these sales go toward  covering Web site costs.

Here (click the numbers) are some GoogleEarth aerial views taken in 2009 of the American Community School grounds:  

#1  In both views I have identified the school area as I (being between 6 and 8 year old at the time) remember it.

#2  closer view.

Thanks go out to Gilbert (Butch) and Neil Prothero for their directions to the old American School grounds and for all the other help they have provided.

The International Community School (ICS) has class photos posted on their Web site. CLICK HERE

Lee Miller -- Web Host  www.ethi-usmappingmission.com

I attended the Deutsche Botschaftsschule Addis Ababa (the German School) durning the 1962 and 1963 school years (Kindergarten and first grade), the Addis Ababa American School (U.S. Department of Defense School) 1964 and 1965 (second and third grades) and the American Community School of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 1967 through 1970 (fifth through eighth grades).

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