Okinawa - Post Report Question and Answers
What is the availability of international schools? What has been your general experience with them, if any?
If you are linked to DOD you will probably attend schools on the base which are great and have lots of sports and extra curriculum activities. If you are a contractor with DOD you might have to pay yourself for the school which can be very expensive. Some of my friends had to pay and it was over 20,000 dollars a year. There are a couple of international schools. I know a lot of kids that went to Okinawa Christian School and loved it. I think it is pricey around 800 to 1000 dollars a month per kid but I could be wrong. My kids were small so I put them in a Japanese public school which was great. Enrolling the kids can be challenging so you might want to hire a translator to do so. - Jul 2021
