The school was named after United States Army General Alexander McCarrell Patch (1889–1945), the commander of the Seventh Army during World War II.

[1] Following its 36th year of service, PAHS closed in 2015,[1] officially on 30 June.

The new Stuttgart High School on Panzer Kaserne, just east of Böblingen, opened that fall and remains the only DoDEA (DoDDS) high school in the Stuttgart area.

Some of the offered courses were as follows Patch AHS had a large variety of sports including tennis, swimming, cheerleading, volleyball, football, cross-country, track, golf, soccer, baseball, wrestling and for JROTC there was drill and rifle.

Many of the teams won Europeans, including rifle, drill, cross-country, and wrestling.