Opened in the fall of 1969, the school is the oldest of the five high schools on Saipan. It replaced the high school program at Hopwood Junior High School, which closed in 1968 when Typhoon Jean occurred.[1]
In June 2011, due to years of effort, Marianas High School proudly announced it achieved above-average scores on 5 of the 8 Stanford Achievement Test Series (SAT 10). The overall average score puts MHS in the 51st percentile. This was the first time a CNMI high school had outperformed the national average. [1] In 2013, five MHS students were named AP Scholars, and two were named Scholars with Honors by the CollegeBoard. In addition, three MHS students were named Gates Scholars for their outstanding academic performance. Finally, in 2013, the MHS STEM team won a National Championship for its unmanned search and rescue plane, the first national championship ever won by a US territory. Then, in late 2015, the MHS STEM team won another National Championship led by their instructor, John D. Raulerson.
Controversies
In 2008, a security guard was murdered on campus by teens stealing laptops. [2]