Tuguegarao City Science High School Was founded by The former mayor of Tuguegarao City, Mayor Delfin Telan Ting. TCSHS separates its students by sections based on the scores obtained at the entrance examination taken before a student is admitted at the first year level in accordance with the country's standard. In 2008-2009, there was no entrance examination for its pioneering batch. The students in the school year 2008-2009 are actually passers of Philippine Science High School including first screening passers.[1] For the second year afterwards, students are sorted by the general average they attained for the fourth grading period. As of school year 2012-2013, the K-12 curriculuum has been introduced to this school by adding two extra years to the basic education curriculum.