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Marianas High School (MHS) is a public high school located in
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in the United States Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; ch, Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; cal, Commonwealth Téél Falúw kka Efáng llól Marianas), is an unincorporated territory and commonw ...
(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
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" Marianas High School. July 4, 2007. Retrieved on January 14, 2018. 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 fellow instructor Mr. John D. Raulerson.


Controversies

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


Notable alumni

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Miguel S. Demapan Miguel S. Demapan ( 1953 – June 30, 2012) was Chief Justice of the Northern Mariana Islands Supreme Court, Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands from 1999 to 2011.Northern Mariana Islands Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 1 CMC § 3101, is the highest court of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), exercising civil and criminal appellate jurisdiction over common ...
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Gregorio Sablan Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (born January 19, 1955) is a Northern Mariana Islander politician and former election commissioner. Elected in 2008, Sablan became the first delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwe ...
, Delegate to the
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(2009–present) *
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, 2014 Rangel Scholar *
Luis John Castro Luis John Deleon Guerrero Castro (born October 27, 1982) is a Chamorro-American politician and a former member of the 21st Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives. A former member of youth government in the early 2000s, he entered the ci ...
, Member of the
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(2019–present)


References


External links

* Marianas High Schoo
Official Website

Marianas High School
profile at CNMI Public School System * {{Authority control Public high schools in the United States High schools in the Northern Mariana Islands Educational institutions established in 1969 1969 establishments in the Northern Mariana Islands