Phone +63 43 404 1259 | ||
Address National Highway, Pinagtongulan, Lipa City, Batangas, 4217, Philippines Similar Fernando Air Base National, Lipa City National High Sch, Lodlod National High Sch, Cuenca National High Sch, Anilao National High Sch | ||
Pinagtongulan National High School is a high school in Lipa, Philippines.
History
In 1967, the government passed a Republic Act the called for the creation of Barangay High Schools in the country. With this, engineer Mateo Layog, then a provincial capital employee and President of Pinagtongulan Elementary School PTA; Santo Landicho, Pinagtongulan Barangay Captain Councilmen Eleuterio Hernandez, Bernardo Honrade and Sofio Mercado, rallied for the establishment of such school in their barangay. This became contestable because they eyed the elementary garden as the site of the proposed high school. It came to the point that the Duhatan people became interested in as much as Pinagtongulan could not decide on the site of the school. But the group of Engineer Layog fought hard till the school was awarded to this barangay and was established at the same contestable site.
The first one-room Marcos type building was erected through the effort of the same group of concerned citizen. This housed the first fifty (50) students who were recruited from the private schools they were already enrolled in. From De las Salle and Mabini Academy came Cesar Mercado and Wenceslao Ricafort Jr. to mention a few, who had to bring their own chairs to a 6 m x 7 m classroom.
The first year teacher hired by the Division Office under the able supervision of the Elementary School Principal Aquilino Naco was Ms. Belen Guib. But two weeks after her appointment in Pinagtongulan, she was transferred to Inosluban Marauoy Barangay High School. Hence, replacement was sent by then Mr. Laygo the Schools Division Superintendent, in the person of Mrs. Matilde Adelantar. It was in July of the same year that Mrs. Eufrosina Ricafort was hired as a part-time teacher to teach Physical Education 1 and English 1.