History[edit]

In 1947 the Mariana Islands' Teacher Training School (MITTS) opened in Guam. MITTS was a normal school serving all areas of the Trust Territory.^[7] It moved to Chuuk (Truk) in 1948,^[8] to be more central in the Trust Territory,^[7] and was renamed Pacific Islands' Teacher Training School (PITTS). The school's function was to develop local Micronesian teaching staff for the Trust Territory.^[8]


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.^[7] At the time it was a three-year institution housing students who graduated from intermediate schools.^[5]


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 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.^[9]