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's not to be confused with the far smaller Colonia, the capital of the State of Yap. It was also the former FSM capital before being ...

Pohnpei Island Pohnpei (formerly known as Ponape or Ascension, from Pohnpeian: "upon (''pohn'') a stone altar (''pei'')") is an island of the Senyavin Islands which are part of the larger Caroline Islands group. It belongs to Pohnpei State, one of the fou ...

, Pohnpei State,

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. 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,

Sokehs Sokehs is a municipality on the main island in the state of Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. It consists of 21 villages. One of them is Palikir, the federal capital. Another is Pakin Atoll, an atoll some 30 km northwest of the main islan ...

(including the FSM capital

Palikir Palikir () is the Capital city, 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 , ou ...

), 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. The Imperial Japanese South Seas Mandate had been seized by the U.S. during the Pacifi ...

,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

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region.

History

In 1947 the

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' Teacher Training School (MITTS) opened in

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. MITTS was a normal school serving all areas of the Trust Territory.Wuerch, William L. and Dirk Anthony Ballendorf. ''Historical Dictionary of Guam and Micronesia'', 1994. , 9780810828582.
91
It moved to Chuuk (Truk) in 1948,Goetzfridt, Nicholas J. and Karen M. Peacock. ''Micronesian Histories: An Analytical Bibliography and Guide to Interpretations''. p
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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 normal school 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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