Yap High School (YHS) is a secondary school in
Colonia,
Yap Island
Yap ( yap, Waqaab) traditionally refers to an island group located in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, a part of Yap State. The name "Yap" in recent years has come to also refer to the state within the Federated States of Micro ...
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Yap State
Yap State, also known in the Yapese language as Nam nu Wa'ab (lit. "Island of Yap") or simply as Wa'ab, is one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). The other states are Kosrae State, Pohnpei State, and Chuuk State.
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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
Yap State Department of Education.
Its current building 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 ...
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In April 2015,
Outer Islands High School in
Ulithi
Ulithi ( yap, Wulthiy, , or ) is an atoll in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, about east of Yap.
Overview
Ulithi consists of 40 islets totaling , surrounding a lagoon about long and up to wide—at one of the larges ...
was damaged. Therefore 12th grade students were sent to Yap High School complete their education.
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Alternate link at
'' Pacific Islands Report'', Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center
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*East–West dichotomy, the contrast between Eastern and Western society or culture
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*''East, West'', an anthology of short stories written by Salma ...
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See also
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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
Yap High School
Yap
High schools in the Federated States of Micronesia
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