1. 1.2Historical Background
In 1967, the government passed a Republic Act that called for the creation of Barangay High Schools.
With this Engineer Mateo Layog, then a provincial capitol employee and the President of Pinagtongulan
Elementary School PTA; Santo Landicho , Pinagtongulan Barangay Captain Councilmen Eleuterio
Hernandez, Bernardo Honrade and Sofio Mercado, rallied for the established of such school in their
barangay. This became contestable because they eyed the elementary garden area 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.
The first one room Marcos type building was erected through the effort of the same group of
concerned citizen. This house the first fifty(50) students who were recruited form the private schools
they were already enrolled in. From De la Salle and Mabini Academy came Cesar Mercado and
Wenceslao Ricafort Jr. to mention a few, who had to bring their own chairs to a 6m. 7m. 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 Inusloban Marauoy Barangay High School. Hence replacement was sent by the then
Mr. Laygo the Schools Division Superintendent, in the person of Mrs. Matilde Adelantar. Soon as need
dictates, other teachers were hired. The pioneers were Eufrosina Legua, Eufrosina Ricafort, Angelita
Lingao and Benjamin Ona.
For several years the school was at the mercy of the community folks who had to pay tuition fee for
the meager teachers salary. The school had to seek aid form the community to sustain its need,
fromchalk and eraser to activities of the students. Teachers for their part had to go in halloweening or
caroling or went house to house for donations. Moreover, they had to tend a garden the harvest of
which were to support the repair of school facilities and devices. With the nationalization of the
barangay high school, big changes occurred specially with the support of the government from the
devices to blackboards, to armchairs and salary of teachers.
Eventually, the barangay high school sitaution improved. With the advent of January 1996, Mrs.
Milagros Lalunio, a teacher 111 and teacher in charge of Lodlod Barangay High School, joined the faculty
of this school and became its teacher in charge. In later months of 1997, the PTA President Jose Alvarez
with the then Barangay Secretary Patricia Alvarez together with the one year old teacher in charge of
the school, renewed an agreement with Mr. Victorino Macasaet. The arrangement was that the
P40,000.00 barangay fund entrusted to them will be used as a down payment for his 600sq. m. lot which

2. is adjacent to the high school site. On an installment basis, this said lot became a part of the high school
property in 1998. Towards the later part of SY 1998-1999, an additional lot measuring 7,221sq. m. was
purchased by the city government through Superintendent Angeles P. Silva which gave the school a total
hectare of school site.
From then on more buildings housed the students and more facilitates were constructed for use of
the high school students such as computer room, science laboratory room, HE room, guidance room and
the like. As the number of enrollment went up so were the problems. The number of section doubled or
even tripled in years that followed. Enclosing the school with perimeter fence hoping to minimize if not
totally eradicate related problems.