An eminent alumnus of this School, Dr. T. Valentino Sitoy, Jr., chronicles that Negros Oriental High School opened in Dumaguete on September 1, 1902 with Miss Rebecca E. Berry as Teacher-in-Charge. Simply referred to as the "Provincial School," it started with an enrollment of some 40 pupils, mostly from Dumaguete and the rest from the various towns. At that time, the Negros Oriental "Provincial School" was one of the 23 high schools in the country.
NOHS was established during the American occupation of the Philippines, a year after the first American school, Silliman Institute (now Silliman University), was founded in the Philippines. It is no wonder that its first teachers were Americans from the batch of educators called "The Thomasites". Here are some of the pioneering principals of the NOHS:
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Mr. W. J. Scruton since 1906* | Mr. Paul Osborn 1916-1917 | Mr. Charles Woodall 1917-1918 |
*source: www.scribd.com/doc/45574155/Bureau-of-Education-1901-1906
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