A. VISION We dream of Filipinos who passionately love their country and whose values and competencies enable them to realize their full potential and contribute meaningfully to building the nation. As a learner-centered public institution, the Department of Education continuously improves itself to better serve its stakeholders. B. MISSION To protect and promote the right of every Filipino to quality, equitable, culture-based, and complete basic education where: • Students learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and motivating environment. • Teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every learner. • Administrators and staff, as stewards of the institution, ensure an enabling and supportive environment for effective learning to happen. • Family, community, and other stakeholders are actively engaged and share responsibility for developing life-long learners. C. CORE VALUES Maka-Diyos, Maka-tao, Makakalikasan, Makabansa D. ACCESS Paulba National High School is a public secondary school situated at the so-called urban Barangay of Ligao City- Barangay Paulba that is about 17 kilometers from the city proper. The common modes of transportation available are jeep and motorcycle. The school is located along the highway so access is not a problem. In terms of school facilities, the school has electrical and water supply, as well as internet service providers in the area. There is a need for additional 1 classroom for the Junior High School since grade 8 should have been divided into 5 sections. At present, there are 4 sections because no classroom is available. The classroom buildings for Senior High School once finished can be enough for Grade 11. However, there will be a need for additional 2 classrooms in the next school year with the Grade 12. The ratio of students to comfort rooms is 90:1 which means there is still a need for additional 8 CRs. There is also a need for the proper maintenance of water supply in the comfort rooms. The number of armchairs at present is 556. With the total enrollees of 890, there is still a need for 334 armchairs. Some students not allotted with chairs were asked to bring their own in the meantime. The school library is at present supervised by an English teacher since there is no full time librarian yet. When it comes to learners’ materials and teacher’s guide, only grade 9 and grade 10 have complete LMs and TG’s. For Grade 8, only the teachers were given the copy of LM and TGwhile the students do not have yet copies. For grade 7, only LM for Quarter 1 &2 were given to teachers and until now there are no additional materials given to them. There is also provision for a computer laboratory with 7 units of computers (1 main server and 6 sub hosts) and 42 substations with monitor and NComputing 300 kits that came from the DepEd Computerization Program (DCP). The computers have been utilized for 3 years now hence, only the 7 units are usable while the 42 substations have network not functioning so they are not utilized. Furthermore, the signal from the internet service providers is too weak and low that it cannot be utilized for the internet connection in the Science Laboratory. The National Science Testing and Instrumentation Center provided the school with Science equipment and materials in 2010 while the City Government provided for the Science Laboratory building. The Science Lab is functional but its utilization is not maximized due to some difficulties such as no water connection through the faucets and lavatories, some materials are not durable and easily broken, and the Science teachers did not undergo proper training on utilization of said gadgets and materials. One teacher attended training in Science but it was on improvisation not on utilization of the provided equipment. When it comes to the participation rate, the school has 96 % last school year. This is so because some of the well-off families of the barangay send their children to Ligao Centro for their education. The total enrolment for SY 2015-2016 is 775 while for 2016- 2017 is 890. The sudden increase in the enrolment is due to the opening of Grade 11. For the past 3 years, the enrolment has gradually increased. Excluding the enrolment for Grade 11, the enrolment is 781; that means an increase of only 6 students. The root causes identified are the retention due to failing grades, drop out, and quitting school after completing a year level. E. QUALITY When it comes to the quality of basic education, Paulba National High School has been working to achieve its targets that are geared towards the DepEd’s vision and mission. However, there are challenges along the way that need to be addressed. As of School Year 2015-2016, the school recorded the following performance indicators: Graduation rate 100% Completion rate 78.81% Transition Rate 89.80% Survival Rate 76.77% Retention Rate 92.25% Performance Level 85% There is no problem with the Graduation rate because all students who enrolled in Grade 10 were able to graduate. The concern lies in the completion rate which means that out of 203 who enrolled in Grade 7, only 160 students were able to graduate. The transition rate also needs intervention considering that out of 178 students that enrolled in grade 9, only 160 were able to complete grade 10. Also, the survival rate suggests that out of 211 enrollees in grade 7, only 162 were able to reach and enroll in grade 10. The retention rate means that out of 594 enrollees from grade 7-9 during the previous school year, only 548 continued going to school the next school year. Furthermore, the performance level based on the post test is 85% which is higher that the passing rate of 75%. But when it comes to the National Achievement Test, the performance level is 38.53% that is far lower that 75%. Based on the root cause analysis, said improvement areas were due to the following grounds: absenteeism, cutting classes and tardiness of students, dropping out, failing grades of students, slow and non-readers, poor study habits, competence and teaching strategies of teachers, student discipline and motivation styles of teachers and class advisers, and poor parent-teacher collaboration. The Child-Friendly School survey revealed that the school got 25 points which means it can already be considered a child- friendly school but there are still several criteria that are not present or complied with. And such criteria are included in the identification of priority improvement areas. The School-Based Child Protection and Anti-Bullying Policy Implementation Checklist stated that the school has not yet complied with some of the provisions in the list. The requirements that are still absent or not yet in place are part of the PIA identification. |
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