Tarlac National High School (TNHS; fil, Pambansang Mataas na Paaralan ng Tarlac), formerly Tarlac High School ( fil, Mataas na Paaralan ng Tarlac), is a

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Tarlac City Tarlac City, officially the City of Tarlac ( pam, Lakanbalen ning Tarlac; pag, Siyudad na Tarlac; ilo, Siudad ti Tarlac; fil, Lungsod ng Tarlac ), is a 1st class component city and capital of the province of Tarlac, Philippines. According to ...

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. Established on September 2, 1902 by American Thomasites, it is the oldest public high school system in the country. It is one of the largest secondary schools in the region with over 7,000 student population. The current head of the school is Dr. Yolanda Gonzales. TNHS has two campuses within Tarlac City—the main campus, located along Macabulos Drive, San Roque, and the annex campus, located along

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in San Miguel. The annex campus has been officially known as Jose V. Yap National High-School since october 5 of 2021 but locals still regard it as TNHS annex due to the fact that it has been an annex of TNHS for a long period of tim

History

Tarlac National High School was founded on September 2, 1902 by the American Thomasites during the Insular Government of the Philippines, early years of the American period in the Philippines, becoming the first public high school in the country.

Tarlac Tarlac, officially the Province of Tarlac ( pam, Lalawigan ning Tarlac; pag, Luyag/Probinsia na Tarlac; ilo, Probinsia ti Tarlac; tgl, Lalawigan ng Tarlac; ), is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. It ...

deputy division superintendent Frank Russell White served as its first principal. The school celebrated its 110th anniversary with an

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homecoming, as well as the construction of the Alumni Building, which will house the memorabilia from the school's history and alumni. On October 28, 2015, a fire razed the original main building as well as the social hall of the school, prompting the creation of a resolution that sought the school to be recognized as a national historical site by the

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in 2017. The school celebrated its 120th anniversary in 2022. The school had a

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as well as a video presentation shown to its students regarding the school's history.

Notable alumni

* Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine representative to the

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during the Commonwealth era. Served as the foreign affairs secretary on three separate occasions (1950-51, 1963-64, 1968-84), as well as education secretary in two separate occasions (1944-45, 1965-1967). * Jose Roy Moncada, first senator from Tarlac. A

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in the province was named after him. *

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, served as Education secretary (1965-68), and president of the

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, lawyer and journalist who was the principal author of the

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References

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