page_title: Camarines Sur National High School
section_title: 1900s
hierarchical_section_title: Camarines Sur National High School / History / 1900s
caption_attribution_description: English: Camarines Sur National High School circa1918 showing the 2 first buildings constructed
context_page_description: Camarines Sur National High School also called Cam High established in 1902, is the oldest national high school in Camarines Sur and one of the biggest public secondary schools in the Bicol Region, Philippines having a student population of 10,795 in the school year 2017–2018
context_section_description: The Philippine Commission under the American occupation enacted Act No. 74 creating the Department of Public Instruction on January 21, 1901 and later that year, American educators known as Thomasites arrived in Ambos Camarines (the province's name before it was split into two, Camarines Sur and Camarines Norte) to teach the Bicolanos.  
  On July 15, 1902, the school was launched as the Provincial High School of Nueva Caceres (former name of Naga City when it was still a town). Headed by its first principal Mr. Frank Crone and assisted by Ms. Minerva Udell, the institution started with 70 students and 4 American mentors. The attendance increased steadily and by the end of the first term there were 200 students. Then it was transferred somewhere in Mabini Street (now San Francisco) until it was transferred in 1915 to Via Gainza (now Peñafrancia Avenue), its present location. It was by then known as Camarines High School.
caption: The Old Science Building and the main Building taken during the 1918 Bicol Meet
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