Pureg is a promising land, ancestral domain of Agtas /Aetas. It is a mountainous place and sitio of barangay Callungan , one of the 18 barangays of the municipality of Sanchez Mira, Cagayan. The road going to stony, dumpy and dusty and muddy and slippery during rainy season. There were no electricity and people walk to reach the place.

It has a total land area of 500 square meters with almost populations 60 households and with a total population of more than 450 persons comprising of elementary age group. It is about five and a half kilometers away from the heart of the town using the Sanchez Mira District office as landmark. Farming, gardening and charcoal making are their work as a source of their living and income. It is accessible through a farm-to-market road.

Thirty- five families live in the core shelters built by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). The others prefer to live in huts in the kaingin at the outskirts of the village or near their workplace.

Pureg as a community of Aetas is a potential place of powerful change. It is a cog in the wheel of development that needs to be pushed with concerted effort, unity and cooperation. It requires a strong government leadership and sincere support of the private agencies and non-government organizations. The active involvement of the of the academic community or education sector through the Formal-Non Formal Systems can best aflame the wick of development.

The community has a set of officers headed by a tribal leader or kapitan. The election of these officers was facilitated by the Barangay. The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) also recognizes a traditional Tribe Leader and officers in reference to the ancestral domain. These leaders work in hand for community and the tribe.

With its environment rich with natural resources as situated in verdant forest and mountains stream and free flowing water, it is never impossible to effect progress by meeting the urgent need, the most powerful to create change and that is EDUCATION.

Owing the philosophy that education is the strongest catalyst of change or development, it is imperatives for the concerned authorities to start building the citizens its people of Pureg who are in need of the much coveted education in order for them to become partners when actively involved in the programs and projects, the government initiative which rebound to holistic development.

To answer the urgent call of development these less fortunate and minority group of our society, their clamour for education must be met.

It begins with a dream of reaching the people and delivering their needs in order for them to appreciate life and find hope in coming up with greater aspiration. This will soon lead them to the realization of better quality of life.

So, in 1977, Grades 1 and Grade 2 were opened and Mrs. Josephine P. Acosta was the lone teacher at that time. But it was only lasted for 2years due insurgency. It was again re-opened on July 11,2011 to cater the needs of the IP’S in Sanchez Mira with 35 pupils broken down as follow: Grade 1-17 and Grade 2- 18 with Mr. Darwin Tabije as their teacher. The pupils stayed in temporary shed (kamarin) made of anahaw leaves. During the time of Dr. Criselda M. Martinez the following year Kindergarten, Grade 3 and 4 were opened so the former District Supervisor and our former ALS Coordinator and at present our Municipal Mayor, Mrs. Asela B. Sacramed made a resolution for classmate building. Other support groups like the Local Government Unit (LGU), the DSWD, the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit and SVD Priests helped one another to respond to the needs of the Agtas. And so a school building was built in a lot donated by Mr. & Mrs. Napoleon C. Sacramed and family. Due to the increasing number of enrolment Pureg Primary School became a complete Elementary School on June 2013 with 71 pupils and 3 regular teachers.

Due to the concerted efforts of both internal and external stakeholders, Pureg Elementary School gradually metamorphosed into a more ideal learning environment. So on February 18, 2014, a general Parents Teachers Association assembly was held the Agtas expressed that they need solar lighting facilities so that the school children can review their lessons and also adults who wish to study can do so. They wanted also to be helped with their livelihood because the products from their kaingin, the sales from the charcoal they make and the wage they earn from doing farm works from the lowlanders which is seasonal in is not enough even for their basic needs. For these, they asked the help of Global Peace Foundation. And on August 8, 2014 the Secretary of Education, Bo. Amin Luistro, The Regional Director, Dr. Lorna Dig-dino, The Division Superintendent Dr. Corazon T. Barrrientos, The Assistant Superintendent Dr. Leila P. Areola, Dr. Jessie Maggay and other division officials and the officers of Global Peace Foundation came for the installation of solar lights at Pureg. And still they wanted to be technologically equipped and digitally native they requested again for solar computers . So the Global Peace Foundation provided the school with solar generator set. And with the full support of the DepEd officials and LGU the school will provided with several solar computers.