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Among the largest tenth of schools in the region
On the Department of Education’s list for school year 2025–26, with its learners for each year DepEd publishes; the 2012–13 and 2015–16 counts and where it stands are from DepEd’s 2019 masterlist. Something wrong?
Where OpenStreetMap has a school of this name in this town.
DepEd's school records list 1919 as the founding year of Upi Agricultural School. Wikipedia's article on Upi says Captain Irving Bryant Edwards, an American army officer posted in Awang, founded it on August 19, 1919, as part of his effort to open schools in remote areas. We could not find a primary record of the founding.
After the Second World War, Republic Act 336, approved on July 20, 1948, let the President use government savings to rebuild and expand the Upi Agricultural School in Cotabato, including buying tractors, fuel, and draft and breeding animals.
The historian B. R. Rodil, who grew up in Upi, remembers it in the 1950s as Upi Agricultural High School, the only high school in the area. Its curriculum included farm work, such as plowing with cows or carabaos. DepEd now lists it as a public junior and senior high school. In 2013 Philstar described it as state-run and said the Maguindanao governor's office had more than 400 scholars there.
As the crow flies, among the schools pinned where they stand.