Bailey Olter High School, formerly Pohnpei Island Central School (PICS),
." Embassy of the Federated States of Micronesia Washington DC. Retrieved on February 23, 2018. "Bailey Olter High School (former PICS) P.O. Box 250 Kolonia, Pohnpei FM 96941" and Pacific Islands Central School, is a senior high school in

Kolonia Kolonia is a coastal town and the capital of Pohnpei State in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). It was also the former FSM capital before being replaced by Palikir in 1989, located nearby to the southwest in the municipality of Sokehs. I ...

Pohnpei Island Pohnpei "upon (''pohn'') a stone altar (''pei'')" (formerly known as Ponape or Ascension, Proto-Chuukic-Pohnpeic: ''*Fawo ni pei)'' is an island of the Senyavin Islands which are part of the larger Caroline Islands group. It belongs to Pohnpei ...

Pohnpei State Pohnpei State (IPA: pɔ:n peɪ) is one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). The other states are, from east to west, Kosrae State, Chuuk State, and Yap State. The state's main island is Pohnpei. History The pre-colonia ...

Federated States of Micronesia The Federated States of Micronesia (; abbreviated FSM) is an island country in Oceania. It consists of four states from west to east, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosraethat are spread across the western Pacific. Together, the states comprise a ...

. the school, operated by the

Pohnpei State Department of Education Pohnpei State Department of Education (PDOE) is an agency of Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia that operates public schools. Churchill B. Edward is the department's director. Schools it had 31 elementary schools with 556 preschool ...

, has about 1,500 students, making it the state's largest high school. Its service area includes Kolonia,

Nett Nett also written as Net, is one of the administrative divisions of Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia. Description Nett is one of the six municipalities located in the main island of Pohnpei. It corresponds to the north-central sect ...

Sokehs Sokehs is a village and municipality on the main island in the state of Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. It is the location of Palikir, the federal capital. The namesake Sokehs Peninsula is located north of the main island. Education P ...

(including the FSM capital

Palikir Palikir () is the capital city of the Federated States of Micronesia located in the western Pacific Ocean. A town of slightly under 5,000 residents, it is part of the larger Sokehs municipality, which had a population of 6,647 , out of the natio ...

), and U. PICS was the first senior high school on the island of Pohnpei; it was originally the sole senior high school in the

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) was a United Nations trust territory in Micronesia administered by the United States from 1947 to 1994. History Spain initially claimed the islands that later composed the territory of the Trus ...

,Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Office of United Nations Political Affairs, 1961. p
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"The Pacific Islands Central School is the only public senior secondary school of the Territory. Students selected for further training following graduation from the district intermediate schools may go to the Pacific Islands Central School for 3 additional years of education." and for a period then only secondary school in the

Micronesia Micronesia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania, consisting of about 2,000 small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It has a close shared cultural history with three other island regions: the Philippines to the west, Polynesia to the east, and ...

region.

History

In 1947 the Mariana Islands' Teacher Training School (MITTS) opened in Guam. MITTS was a

normal school A normal school or normal college is an institution created to Teacher education, train teachers by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum. In the 19th century in the United States, instruction in normal schools was at the high s ...

serving all areas of the Trust Territory.Wuerch, William L. and Dirk Anthony Ballendorf. ''Historical Dictionary of Guam and Micronesia'', 1994. , 9780810828582.
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It moved to Chuuk (Truk) in 1948,Goetzfridt, Nicholas J. and Karen M. Peacock. ''Micronesian Histories: An Analytical Bibliography and Guide to Interpretations''. p
190
to be more central in the Trust Territory, and was renamed Pacific Islands' Teacher Training School (PITTS). The school's function was to develop local Micronesian teaching staff for the Trust Territory. It transitioned from being a

to a comprehensive secondary school, so it was renamed the Pacific Islands Central School. The school moved to Pohnpei in 1959. At the time it was a three-year institution housing students who graduated from intermediate schools. Additions were built between the late 1960s to the middle of the 1970s, a period when several other public high schools were built in the

.''Compact of Free Association in the Micronesian States of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands: Environmental Impact Statement''.

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, 1984. p
36
"From the late 1960s to mid-1970s the major high school complexes throughout the Trust Territory were constructed: notably, ..dditions to the Ponape High School ..

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{{Federated States of Micronesia Schools Pohnpei High schools in the Federated States of Micronesia

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