Hopwood Junior High School (HJHS) was founded in 1949 as the Saipan Intermediate School and then renamed in 1962 after Admiral Herbert Gladstone Hopwood of the United States Navy.
[1] Admiral Hopwood served as Commander in Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet from 1958 to 1960.
During World War II, the location of the school was a cemetery for the Fourth Marine Division.
In 2006, Sam Nepaial was the United States Territories’ Champion for the American Scholastic Achievement League.
[3] In 2007, Andrei Seki became the United States Territories’ Champion for the American Scholastic Achievement League.