Yap High School (YHS) is a secondary school in
Rull Municipality,
Yap Island,
Yap State
Yap State ( or ) is one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia, located in the westernmost portion of the country. The state borders Palau to the southwest, Guam to the north, and Chuuk State to the east. According to the state' ...
,
Federated States of Micronesia
The Federated States of Micronesia (, abbreviated FSM), or simply Micronesia, is an island country in Micronesia, a region of Oceania. The federation encompasses the majority of the Caroline Islands (excluding Palau) and consists of four Admin ...
. It is a part of the
Yap State Department of Education
Yap (, sometimes written as , or ) 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 Yap State, the state within th ...
, along with two other public secondary schools in Yap State.
Most of its current buildings were 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. The Imperial Japanese South Seas Mandate had been seized by the U.S. during the Pacifi ...
.
In April 2015,
Outer Islands High School in
Ulithi
Ulithi (, , or ; pronounced roughly as YOU-li-thee) is an atoll in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, about east of Yap, within Yap State.
Name
The name of the island goes back to Chuukic languages, Proto-Chuukic ''*úlú-diw ...
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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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. E ...
References
External links
Yap High School
Yap
High schools in the Federated States of Micronesia
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