Baguio Schools
Are Elementary and High Schools in Baguio City Any Good?
Baguio has a plethora of public and private primary and secondary schools.
Particular atttention is placed on ensuring that there are enough schools for about half the city's burgeoning population, the youth.
Due to uncontrolled migration by folks seeking their fortune in the City of Pines or college graduates
who studied in our schools
and universties who have decided to settle here permanently, Baguio City is now struggling to provide quality primary (elementary) and secondary (high school) education for all the children living here.
Just How Many Students Are There in Baguio City?
The 2005-2010 Medium Term Development Plan authored by the city government indicates that:
1. The total enrollees for all levels for the school year (2004) was 137,289 students:
* College level = 49.21% or 67,560 students
* Secondary = 20.92% or 28,721 students
* Elementary = 29.87% or 41,008 students
2. There are a whopping 209 schools operating in Baguio, both public and private:
* 54 are pre-elementary
* 66 are elementary schools
* 43 are secondary schools
* 7 universities and colleges
* 37 vocational schools
* 2 schools for the physically handicapped
3. The population of Baguio in 2005 was estimated at 285,278. Thus about half the city’s current population is composed of students.
In 1982, my best friend in U.P. Diliman was from Baguio. She graduated from Saint Louis University (SLU) Girls High.
20 years later, I was asked to help another Baguio girl register for a quota course in U.P. Diliman in Metro Manila, and find a dormitory. It turns out that about a dozen or so of the graduates of Baguio CIty High School that year made it to my alma mater where admission is so competitive and I was pleasantly surprised and oh, so pleased!
This size is tremendous considering Baguio City was designed to accommodate only 30,000 persons originally.
Just the student populations of both privately-owned Saint Louis University (SLU) and the University of Baguio (UB) number more than 20,000 each!
The public schools here, offering primary and secondary education, are unbelievably good, clean and cheap compared to the rest of the Philippines. About Php1,500 tuition per child, plus the possibility of building a house on 'free' public land, is what attracts so many Filipinos to come up and live in Baguio City.
Of course, the lovely weather in Baguio City makes it very pleasant to study and play here, too.
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