Twice-designated as a California Purple Star School, Dewey Elementary in Point Loma San Diego serves an 83% military-connected student body drawn from Liberty Station Housing and Gateway Village at 3251 Rosecrans Street in the Midway District. The K-4 campus pulls directly from Naval Base Point Loma housing, with the feeder-in preschool pipeline running through installation childcare sites like the Child Development Center at Naval Base Point Loma for active-duty dependents ahead of kindergarten transition. Purple Star designation recognizes Dewey's consistent programming for military-connected students, including transition staff, deployment check-ins, and coordination with the 25-school Children and Youth in Transition network that San Diego Unified built with Department of Defense Educational Activity grant funding. Title I schoolwide funding, GATE clustering, and a dedicated science lab round out the K-4 curriculum, with after-school math-and-reading reinforcement available through centers such as Kumon Math and Reading Center of San Diego - Point Loma for families whose duty-station rotations interrupt standard grade-level pacing. The Rosecrans Street campus operates inside the Midway District San Diego commercial corridor and within walking distance of Liberty Station, giving dependents a single K-through-fourth-grade track that absorbs 12-to-36-month PCS cycles without breaking curriculum continuity across CDS code 37-68338-6039481.