Kosrae High School (KHS) is a secondary school in
Tofol
Tofol village in Lelu Town municipality is the capital of the state of Kosrae in Micronesia, according to the provisions of the Kosrae State Code, Title 2, Chap. 2. It is the most easterly point of Micronesia.
Location
Tofol is in Lelu municipali ...
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Lelu municipality
Lelu or Lelu Town is a municipality of the state of Kosrae, in the Federated States of Micronesia.
The municipality of Lelu consists of Lelu Island (a small satellite island of Kosrae Island) and a big part of the northeastern portion of Kosrae ...
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Kosrae State
Kosrae ( ), formerly known as Kusaie or Strong's Island, is an island in the Federated States of Micronesia. The State of Kosrae is one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia, and includes the main island of Kosrae and a few near ...
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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 ...
. It is a part of the
Kosrae State Department of Education
Kosrae State Department of Education (KDOE) is an agency of Kosrae State, Federated States of Micronesia that operates public schools. It is headquartered in Tofol. and is the island's sole high school.
[Kosrae High School]
" Kosrae State Department of Education
Kosrae State Department of Education (KDOE) is an agency of Kosrae State, Federated States of Micronesia that operates public schools. It is headquartered in Tofol. . Retrieved on February 23, 2018. "Kosrae High School is the only high school in the State of Kosrae, ..The school is located in the center of the island in Tofol."
It opened in the 1960s.
[ Its original facility was built between the late 1960s to the middle of the 1970s, a period when several other public high schools were built 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 ...
. It was first built in Yekula. In 2010 its current building opened.[
Originally KHS was a ]boarding school
A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. As they have existed for many centuries, and now exten ...
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Notable people
* Adelyn Noda Adelyn Noda ( Benjamin; born 5 October 1950) is a former teacher from Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia. In 1983, she became the youngest women from Kosrae to be ordained as a deaconess.
Biography
She was born on 5 October 1950 in Mal ...
- educator and deaconess.
See also
* Education in the Federated States of Micronesia Education in the Federated States of Micronesia is required for citizens aged 6 to 13, and is important to their economy. The literacy rate for citizens aged 15 to 24 is 98.8%.
The national education agency is the FSM Department of Education. Each ...
References
External links
Kosrae High School
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Kosrae
High schools in the Federated States of Micronesia
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