Brief History

The Marcos Agro-Industrial School was created in 1966 by virtue of the Barrio High School Charter which gave birth to the three Barrio High Schools with four hectares of agricultural lands at Santiago Campus and the Agunit campus with a land area of almost 0.75 hectare. Later, in 1970 the three barangay high schools were converted into a municipal high school with its new name, Marcos Municipal High School through the Municipal Resolution No. 18 dated July 1, 1970 with its main campus at Barangay Lydia.

In 1977 the Marcos Municipal High School was again converted into a national vocational high school by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 1050 dated June 16, 1977 bearing the name Marcos Agro-Industrial School. With its nationalization, it started offering secondary vocational courses. The courses offered at the main campus for boys are radio mechanics, building construction, furniture and cabinet making. For girls are food trades, dressmaking and handicrafts. At Agunit Campus are furniture and cabinet making and vocational agriculture for boys and food trades and dressmaking for girls. At Santiago campus, courses offered are purely vocational agriculture for boys and girls like Agronomy, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry. All these courses are geared toward new knowledge, skills and technology in improving the quality of life and responding effectively to the changing socio-economic needs and conditions.

On November 2, 1989, the growth and development of the school was manifested through the offerings of post-secondary and short-term courses in the school year 1992-1993 for out-of-school youths and unemployed adults and farmers. Courses offered include Apparel Technology, Hotel Restaurant Management Technology – Operator Level, Electronics Technology – Operator Level, Civil Technology – Operator Level, and Automotive Technology – Operator Level. With the creation of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority under Republic Act No. 7796 which was signed into law by President Fidel V. Ramos on August 24, 1994, the Marcos Agro-Industrial School became one of the fifty-nine (59) technical vocational schools under the authority. A rapid re-engineering of the programs, projects and facilities was then pursued. The post-secondary courses are now being developed to support and emerge into a distinctive area of competence. The courses offered include Three-Year Certificate in Agriculture Technology, Two-Year Certificate in Mechanical Technology, Two-Year Certificate in Electronics Technology, Two-Year Certificate in Civil Technology (Furniture & Cabinet Making and Building Construction), Two-Year Certificate in Hotel and Restaurant Management Technology, One-Year Certificate in Apparel Technology, One-Year Certificate in Agro-Industrial Entrepreneurship, and Three-Month Certificate in Mushroom Technology.

In the year 2002-2003, the rationalization of the educational system was implemented and brought about the total transfer of the secondary programs of MAIS to DECS now DepEd resulting to greater focus on post-secondary education and skills training. With this development, the school registered various programs and was accredited by TESDA as an Assessment Center in the various qualifications such as Crop Production Technician leading to National Certificate (NC) I, NC II; One-Year Certificate in Apparel Technology leading to Dressmaker NC I, Garment Sewer, one category; Two-Year Certificate in Hotel and Restaurant Management Technology leading to Hot Kitchen Cook NC I, NC II, NC III, Room Attendant NC II, Food and Beverage Attendant NC I, NC II, NC III; Two-Year Certificate in Mechanical Technology Major in Automotive Technology leading to NC I, NC II; Two-Year Certificate in Electronics Technology leading to NC I, NC II; Two-Year Certificate in Civil Technology Major in Furniture & Cabinet Making and Building Construction leading to Rough Carpenter NC II, Finish Carpenter NC III, General Mason NC II, Re-bar Fixer NC II, Plumber NC II; One-Year Certificate in Agro-Industrial Entrepreneurship; Three-Month Certificate in Mushroom Production Technology. Aside from these course offerings, MAIS is offering short-term courses, which emanate from the registered courses like Industrial Sewing Machine Operation (ISMO), Mushroom Technology, Mango Seedling Production/Propagation, Meat Processing, Baking and other technologies. It is therefore, the responsibility of the school to ensure quality TVET instruction in order to respond quickly to the changes in technology and industry skills requirements.

On June 9, 2003, this day marked the launching of the new Competency-Based Curriculum on Crop Production NC III. This program emerged as its Distinctive Area of Competence (DAC). MAIS was recognized as the Center of Technical Excellence (CenTEx) on Crop Production and Processing.

Another milestone for the school happened on February 26, 2004. After having manifested exemplary commitment in implementing quality management systems in pursuance of the Philippine TVET Quality Awards, the school was able to achieve the PQA Bronze Level Award.

On July 4, 2007, full implementation of the competency-based curriculum in all of the school’s registered programs took place. Likewise, the acquisition of training equipment is being done in order to provide quality training.

April 30, 2019, MAIS received its One-STAR award under the System for TVET Accreditation and Recognition Program for Agricultural Crops Production NC III.

At present, continuous improvement is being pursued in order to attain its goals and objectives of providing quality and relevant technical education and skill development not only to the people of Marcos but also to its neighbouring towns and provinces in general.