Marianas High School
Location
Beach Road, Susupe, Saipan,
Northern Mariana Islands
Coordinates15°9′39″N 145°42′29″E / 15.16083°N 145.70806°E / 15.16083; 145.70806
Information
TypePublic Secondary
Motto Team Effort Towards Excellence
Established1969 (1969)
PrincipalJonathan Aguon
Faculty60
Grades9 - 12
Number of students1,500
Color(s)Royal blue and gold
MascotDolphin
Websitewww.marianashighschool.com

Marianas High School (MHS) is a public high school located in Susupe on Saipan in the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). It is one of six high schools operated by the CNMI Public School System, and the largest of three public high schools serving the island of Saipan.

History

Opened in fall 1969, the school is the oldest of the five high schools on Saipan. It replaced the high school program at Hopwood Junior High School, which closed in 1968 when Typhoon Jean occurred.[1]

In June 2011, as a result of years of effort, Marianas High School proudly announced it achieved above-average scores on 5 of the 8 Stanford Achievement Test Series (SAT 10). The overall average score puts MHS in the 51st percentile. This was the first time a CNMI high school has outperformed the national average. In 2013, five MHS students were named AP Scholars and two were named Scholars with Honors by the CollegeBoard. In addition, three MHS students were named Gates Scholars in recognition of their outstanding academic performance. Finally, in 2013, the MHS STEM team won a National Championship for its unmanned search and rescue plane, the first national championship ever won by a US territory. Then again in late 2015, the MHS STEM team won another National Championship led by their instructor.

Controversies

  • In 2008, a security guard was brutally murdered on campus by teens stealing laptops.

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ "History." Marianas High School. July 4, 2007. Retrieved on January 14, 2018.
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