Situated in the Eastern Highlands Province, it is a boarding school for Grades 11 and 12, and its students come from all over PNG.

Aiyura National High School was established in 1976, a year after PNG achieved independence.

The aim of having national schools that would draw students from all over the country was to develop a concept of national unity in a culturally diverse society.

Other institutions in the valley include a coffee research station and other agricultural research facilities, two primary schools, an airfield and aircraft engineering school, and the PNG headquarters of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, an evangelical Christian organization.

Subjects taught are: language and literature (compulsory); mathematics and advanced mathematics; biology; chemistry; physics; economics; geography; and history.