Agana Heights, Guam
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Agana Heights is one of the 19 villages of Guam
Guam
Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United...

. It is located in the hills south of Hagåtña (formerly Agana), in the central part of the island. The U.S. Naval Hospital is located in this largely residential village.

Education

The village is served by the Guam Public School System
Guam Public School System
Guam Public School System , formerly the Guam Department of Education, is a school district that serves the entire island of Guam, a United States insular area...

.

Agana Heights Elementary School is in Agana Heights. Jose Rios Middle School in Piti
Piti, Guam
Piti is a village located on the western shore of Guam. It contains the commercial port of Guam at Apra Harbor as well as several of the island’s largest power plants.- Education :Guam Public School System serves the island....

 serves sections of Agana Heights south of Tutujan Drive. George Washington High School
George Washington High School (Guam)
George Washington High School is a public secondary school located at 298 Washington Drive in Mangilao, Guam, United States.The school, a part of the Guam Public School System, opened in 1965 and serves grades 9 through 12....

 in Mangilao
Mangilao, Guam
Mangilao is a village on the eastern shore of the United States territory of Guam. The village's population has increased slightly following the island's 2000 census....

 serves the village.

In addition, Department of Defense Education Activity
Department of Defense Education Activity
The Department of Defense Education Activity is a civilian agency of the United States Department of Defense that manages all schools for military children and teenagers, as well as foreign service children and teenagers, in the United States and also overseas at American military bases worldwide...

 operates Guam High School
Guam High School
Guam High School is a U.S. military operated secondary school located at 401 Stitt Street in Agana Heights in Guam, an insular area of the United States.The school, a part of the Department of Defense Education Activity, serves grades 9 through 12...

 in Agana Heights.

The Guam Adventist Academy
Guam Adventist Academy
Guam Adventist Academy is a K-12 Seventh-day Adventist private school, located in Yona, Guam.In 1949 Pastor Dunton founded what would become the GAA, with an initial enrollment of 26 pupils. The second GAA school opened in 1951. By 1957 the two schools merged into one K-12 institution, and GAA was...

 was located in the village until it moved into its current Yona
Yona, Guam
- History :The village was historically a farming community but today is mostly residential. During World War II, the Japanese forced the indigenous Chamorros to march from camps in northern Guam to prison camps in the Manenggon area in Yona shortly before the Americans liberated the island...

campus, which the institution secured in 1963.
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