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Pohnpei State Department of Education

Education agency in Pohnpei State, Micronesia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ55630154 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pohnpei State Department of Education (PDOE) is an agency of Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia that operates public schools.

As of 2017 Churchill B. Edward is the department's director.

Schools

As of 2007 it had 31 elementary schools with 556 preschool students and 8,112 elementary students, and three high schools with 2,713 students.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pohnpei State Department of Education” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.