Xavier High School, managed by the Society of Jesus, is the first four-year high school established in FSM, built in 1953. Even now students come from islands all over Micronesia, and the educational standard is high. Many of past and current leaders of the nation, in both business and politics, are graduates of the school, which has commanding views in nearly every direction. In 1940, the Japanese Army requisitioned the church and used it as a command center