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| Marianas High School | |
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| Coordinates | 15°9′39″N145°42′29″E / 15.16083°N 145.70806°E /15.16083; 145.70806 |
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| Type | Public Secondary |
| Motto | Team Effort Towards Excellence |
| Established | 1969; 56 years ago (1969) |
| Principal | Melanie Sablan Rdiall |
| Faculty | 60 |
| Grades | 9 - 12 |
| Number of students | 1,500 |
| Colors | Royal blue and gold |
| Mascot | Dolphin |
| Website | marianashighschool.com |
Marianas High School (MHS) is a public four-yearhigh school located inSusupe, Saipan in theCommonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). It is one of six high schools operated by theCNMI Public School System and the largest of the three public high schools serving the island ofSaipan.
Marianas High School opened in the fall of 1969, making it the second oldest of the five high schools on Saipan, behindMount Caramel School. MHS replaced the high school program atHopwood Junior High School, which closed in 1968 whenTyphoon Jean occurred.[1]
In June 2011, Marianas High School announced it achieved above-average scores on 5 of the 8Stanford Achievement Test Series (SAT 10). The overall average score placed MHS in the 51st percentile, the first time a high school in the CNMI outperformed the national average.[1]
In 2013, five MHS students were namedAP Scholars, and two were named Scholars with Honors by theCollegeBoard. In addition, three MHS students were namedGates Scholars for their outstanding academic performance. In the same year, the MHS STEM team won a National Championship for its unmanned search and rescue plane, the first national championship ever won by aU.S. territory.
In late 2015, the MHS STEM team won another National Championship led by their instructor, John D. Raulerson.
In 2008, a security guard was murdered on campus by teens stealing laptops.[2]
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