Education

COMMISSION ON EDUCATION
Bishop's Home Compound
San Carlos City, Negros Occidental 6127
Philippines


	DIOCESAN & PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS
	St. Francis High School Vallehermoso, Negros Oriental (Parochial School)	St. Francis High School of Vallehermoso, Negros Oriental was the last of three schools built and managed by the Franciscan Missionaries of Sta. Barbara CA. The school went through a crisis in 1972 during the martial law regime of then President Marcos when the Missionaries were sent out of the country. The missionaries did not want to give up the school to the government, neither to the church but to a group of Parishioners, as a Board of Trustees. Ten daring parishioners accepted the challenge. The school administration's desire to improve its structures and facilities was tremendously helped by the donation of a 2-hectare lot by the late Vicente Lopez Jr. In 1994, when the government high school was put up near SFHS, the enrolment dropped from 500 to 300. At present, this has gone up to 527, with graduates who are computer - literate and spiritually formed. The school can barely survive because increase in tuition fee is next to impossible in a 4^th class municipality The students pay an average of Php 180.00 (US$ 3.27) monthly tuition fee. The teachers make their service part of their apostolic work.
	Our Lady of Peace Mission School Prosperidad, San Carlos City (Diocesan Mission School) Bishop Advincula with Anthony Wee at the construction site of the OLPMS building donated by Japanese friends. The finished OLPMS two-classroom building funded by Japanese philanthropists.	Bishop Jose Advincula, seeing the need to evangelize the mountain area of Prosperidad, San Carlos City envisioned a school which would serve to catechize the youth of the area on the high school level. Our Lady of Peace Mission School is the materialization of this vision. OLPMS started operations in 2002-2003 with only one class of First Year High School students. Classes opened and were conducted in a building lent by the OISCA cooperative. The building also served as the living quarters of the Handmaids of the House of God who managed the school. The Wee Family of Prosperidad, San Carlos City supported the school by donating 4.47 hectares of land for the school’s use and allowing the sisters to conduct classes in the unused areas of their farm house. Later, through representations made by Anthony Wee, Japanese philanthropists who worked with the OISCA cooperative later donated funds to build a two-classroom building. The building was finished in time for the opening of school year 2004-2005. The school now serves 200 high school students First Year to Second Year. Bishop Advincula & Fr. Edwin Laude with the students of OLPMS.
	East Negros Academy Toboso, Neg. Occidental (Parochial School) ENA school campus.	East Negros Academy was established in 1952 by the late Mayor of Toboso, Albino Uy dela Cruz Sr., to serve the youth of the municipality. Since then, it has stood out as an example of selfless service to the community. The school was later sold to the Carmelite Fathers who nurtured its students with Catholic Christian teaching. After the Carmelites left the parish, the administration of the school was administered by the secular clergy from the Diocese of San Carlos
	Holy Infant Academy Cadiz, Neg. Occidental