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Sometime in 1915, a secondary
school was conceived and planned for educational
advancement of the people of Tagudin. Tagudin
then, was still a town of the Mountain Province.
Tagudin was selected as the capital of the
sub-province of Amburayan. According to
tradition, Amburayan was the original name of
Tagudin. The then Lepanto-Amburayan sub-province
was created – still under the Mountain Province.
It was the dividing area between the provinces
of Ilocos Sur and La Union.
Since Tagudin Elementary School (now Tagudin
Central School) had so many pupils coming from
the towns of Sudipen, Bangar and Luna, La Union,
as well as from Sta. Cruz, and even as far as
Alilem, Sugpon and Cervantes, Ilocos Sur, the
educational leaders decided to establish a
secondary school for the young people within
their towns, as well as from other towns. The
late Don Pedro Bunoan, according to the late
Judge Mena S. Lardizabal and the late Judge
Moises Encarnacion, organized a committee for
the purpose of solving the secondary education
problem of the locality. A group of family
leaders were called - the Acosta, Andaya, Bunoan,
Dauz, Lardizabal, Lamadrid, Lambinicio, Laranang,
Lozano, Fernandez, Valdez, Valencia, Villanueva,
Parpana, Lorenzana, Manzano, Mina, Lasmarias,
Somera and Lamorena, among others. But these
families were the original ones who organized
the first municipal high school in the
Philippines, outside Manila – The TAGUDIN HIGH
SCHOOL, including its high school song – the
Tagudin High school Hymm.
Thus, the first secondary school was established
– that is the first to be administered by the
town of Tagudin in 1916. The first organized
class was for the first year students of more
than thirty. A makeshift classroom was
temporarily built at the school site of Tagudin
Central School. In the second year of operation,
it was transferred to the north of the present
Municipal Hall of Tagudin with another bigger
makeshift building – with cogon for roofing,
woven buho (bulo) for walling and flooring,
while its posts were of matured molave trunk.
For several years, only the first year level had
been offered. This continued for almost five
years. The second year level was offered with
great gusto, for young people from other towns,
as far as Candon, Cervantes and Alilem and
Sugpon, Ilocos Sur, from Bangar, Luna and
Balaoan and Sudipen, La Union. For two years,
this had been the condition. Later, third year
education was offered. Those who stopped for
many years enrolled for further learning. Due to
inadequate funds, as well as qualified teachers,
only the first to third year levels were
offered. This went on until a group of the first
graduates were realized in 1932. From then on,
the school was known as Tagudin High School
until the end of the second World War.
When Tagudin was included as one of the towns of
Ilocos Sur, the school continued to remain as
Tagudin High School. It was some few years after
World War II that the institution became known
as Tagudin Provincial High School. This was its
name until it became a National High School –
Tagudin General Comprehensive High School until
the time it was converted into Ilocos Sur
Polytechnic College (ISPC) then Ilocos Sur
Polytechnic State College (ISPSC), wherein the
enrolment for secondary students were limited
causing panic among parents and guardians and
the various barangays and towns served
previously by the Tagudin General Comprehensive
High School. It was then through the initiative
of the concerned parents and guardians, as well
as all of those graduated by Tagudin High
School, Tagudin Provincial High School and
Tagudin General Comprehensive High School, that
the offering of secondary education was made
open under a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) by
the Department of Education Culture and Sports
and Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College and the
Commission on Higher Education.
Under this scheme, with its name as Tagudin
National High School under said MOA, the
institution operates. The students, parents and
guardians, local officials and all others are
teaming up for the final establishment of
Tagudin National High School – with its own
school site, buildings and all other structures,
including personnel to be under the
administration and supervision of the DECS.
Tagudin National High School was established
under R.A. 8928 : “An Act establishing a
national high school in the municipality of
Tagudin, province of Ilocos Sur to be known as
the Tagudin National High School and
appropriating funds therefore”. It was passed on
17 August 1999 and signed by the then President
Joseph Estrada on May 22, 2000. The other
signatories to this are : Hon. Frankiln Drilon,
President of the Senate, Hon. Mauel B. Villar,
Jr., Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Hon Oscar G. Yabes, Secretary of the Senate, and
Hon. Roberto P. Nazareno, Secretary General of
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VISION
Tagudin National High School envisions the holistic integral human formation of
every learner to be basically, functionally and adequately prepared for everyday
living, and imbued with a value-system that embodies the good, the true and the
beautiful in the Filipino ingenuity and heritage.
MISSION
As a facilitator of learning and of the quest for truth and wisdom, Tagudin
National High School is committed with the mission to provide quality basic
education that hones skills, harnesses the creativity, develops scientific
competencies, promotes gender sensitivity, advocates environmental concern and
sustainability, confronts social issues, values life, and deepens the sense of
duty and love for God and our nation.
TOTAL NUMBER OF ENROLMENT
1999 - 2004
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SY |
Male |
Female |
Total |
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1999-2000 |
1111 |
1044 |
2155 |
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2000-2001 |
1182 |
1071 |
2253 |
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2001-2002 |
1229 |
1194 |
2423 |
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2002-2003 |
1327 |
1259 |
2586 |
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2003-2004 |
1391 |
1345 |
2736 |
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2004-2005 |
1428 |
1392 |
2820 |
Teacher-Student Ratio - 1:56
Student-Classroom Ratio - 1:75
Retention Rate - 95.52%
Drop Out Rate - 4.69%
Repetition Rate - 4.73%
Cohort Survival Rate - 78.46%
Completion Rate - 72.59%
Graduation Rate - 92.51% |
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