The school’s goal was to give boys a college preparatory education. Athletics also played a major role in campus life. More than 3,000 boys were educated there, including several well-known Marylanders, and the children of the Carnegie and Mellon families. The school like rest of the country, fell on hard times and formerly wealthy families were no longer able to send their children to Tome. The last class graduated in 1941, the year before the school buildings and property were sold to the United States Navy. As part of the Bainbridge Naval Training Center, the school buildings & campus entered a new chapter, most notably becoming home to the United States Naval Academy Preparatory School.