Emiliano Tria Tirona Memorial National High School, being one of the two Public Secondary School in Kawit,

Cavite, it has touched the hearts and

minds of young Kawiteňos.

ETTMNHS changed many lives and turned much wickedness into wisdom. The school shares the vision of the Department of Education of
producing learners who are functionally literate equipped with the life skills, appreciative of the arts and sports and imbued with the desirable values
of a person who is Makabayan, Makatao, and Makakalikasan at MakaDiyos. It is the mission of ETTMNHS to enable every learner to attain quality
education that is equitably accessible to all by developing the learners; knowledge, skills and values necessary to cope up with the changing world.

ETTMNHS is situated in 3.5 hectare lot along the Philippine National Railways (PNR) road in Gahak, Kawit, Cavite. It is in a low lying area often
being flooded during storms, typhoon and high tide occurrences. Barangay Gahak has a projected population of 2,379 according to the latest
municipal data. The community people’s livelihood resources come from fishing industry, employment in different establishment and big/small time
entrepreneurship. It has one public elementary school and two public secondary school (this school & Binakayan Nat’l Hs)

In the summer of 1946, the late Mr. Roberto T. Tirona, Assistant Principal of Cavite High School in Cavite City, proposed the idea of creating a junior
high school at Kawit, Cavite, to his immediate superior, Mr. Palaypay, as well as to Mr. Ramon Lorenzo, Division Superintendent of schools at the
time. This was in view of the ever increasing enrollment of students coming from the town of Kawit, Bacoor, Imus, Noveleta, Dasmariňas and Silang,
Cavite, which the Cavite High School could hardly absorb, and in the light of the promise given to him by late Senator Emiliano Tria Tirona, that the
senator would allocate his Pork Barrel Fund of Php 500,000.00 for the construction of the school building and for the payment of the school site,
once the proposal was approved.

Eventually the Kawit Junior High School, with a faculty of twenty-nine teachers and a student population of one thousand two hundred students was
temporarily opened in June 1946 in the convent of Kawit parish Church, pending the construction of the permanent building in a 3.5 hectare lot in
Gahak, Kawit, Cavite.

In 1948, the Kawit Junior High School became a full-pledged high school and was renamed Kawit High School. It turned outs its first graduates in
1949.

On April 5, 1950, the classes of Kawit High School were transferred into its new site and building at Gahak, Kawit, Cavite. It was renamed Emiliano
Tria Tirona Memorial High School in honor of its benefactor, the late Senator Tirona.

In 1962, The Emiliano Tria Tirona High School was converted into a National high school, largely through the effort of then Congressman Justiano
Montano and the then school principal, Mr. Guillermo P. Florencio.

Mr. Roberto T. Tirona (1947-1951), Mr. Guillermo P. Florencio (1951-1970), Mrs. Viola Samonte (1970-1971), Miss Patricia R. Santulan (1971-
1973), Mrs. Cerelina D. Victa (1973-1976), Mr. Benjamin B. Benita V. Jamir (1980-1990), Mr. Roman M. Salazar (1990-1995), Dr. Nelda G. Dator
(1995-1997), Dr. Leticia C. Hayag (1997-1998), Mr. David E. Atas (1998-2005), Dr. Presenciana E. Pinazo (2005-2011) and Dr. Teresita A. Silan
(2011-Present) were the following school principals who are responsible for the historical growth of the high school.

Being a Tironian is a pleasure which may did not realize yet. If we just know how to give worth to each day spent in high school, not for the purpose
of seeing life the way we have to, then we can be a proud Tironian.

By: Caryl Faye Monreal