STATE OF THE SCHOOL ADDRESS

MANJUYOD NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

SY 2009-2010

Manjuyod National High School is formerly a private School named Central

Negros Academy, founded in 1948 by a very good philanthropist; Don Daniel Sycip. It
was converted into Manjuyod High School in 1992 and later to Manjuyod National High
School through the efforts of Hon. Jose A. Baldado, being inspired by the clamour of
Manjuranons to have a free Secondary education in the Municipality.

The curriculum adopted by the school is the recently instituted Basic Secondary
Education curriculum with learning areas that adhere to the national schema of teaching
the essential subjects taught in the secondary course consistent to the National Policy
in promoting learning appropriate to the cultural sensitivity of the students. The school
focused on the strict compliance to the observance of maximizing time contact with the
students while minimizing extracurricular activities.

Manjuyod National High School has a principal, 34 regular permanent teachers,

2 locally funded office staff and 18 teacher-aides and 2 non teaching staff. The teacher
aides and office staff are municipal paid. Teacher aides are given loads to handle either
their major or non-major subjects. The non-teaching staffs are assigned as office clerks
and utility workers. Just recently two items for Senior Book Keeper III and Disbursing
Officer II were appointed for the School.

Standardized teaching strategies and methods are applied for optimum delivery
of teaching performance. Effective learning outcomes of students are best measured
when the basic standards in teaching are met. Undesirable teaching performance were
identified and addressed through in service training, seminar workshops for classroom
management and teaching strategies.

For the current year, Makabayan Teachers attended enhancement workshop in

MAPEH and TLE subjects. These training workshops were initiated by the Division
InSeT team. Regional training designed for the school’s Guidance Counsellor was
attended by the recently appointed employee. The School’s Disbursing Officer II and
Senior Book Keeper III have attended Division Level initiated workshop on basic
Government Accounting procedures to facilitate implementation of Book keeping and
Disbursement transactions. Recently, Manjuyod National High School is given the
responsibility to implement the allocated budget for MOOE and Personnel Services
items. The newly appointed staff who’s handling the book keeping and disbursing tasks
were trying to cope up with the volume of work assigned to them. Technical trainings
intended to enhance their skills further, has to be planned out to make them more
effective in their assigned task.
 Curricular and co-curricular development activities for students in SY 2008-2009
include: career guidance orientation seminar, school and community initiated activities.
Yearly recollection was administered to students who were candidates for graduation.
Facilitating the recollection were invited speakers known to be professionals in the fields
of social psychology.

School Year 2009-2010 enrolment has decreased to 1, 467 as compared to

previous School Year 2008-2009 with an enrolment of 1, 666 or an enrolment
decrement of 13%. The teacher: student ratio for the current year is 1:42, while in the
previous school year the teacher: student ratio is 1:46.

There are 32 classrooms available, either for instructional and administrative

purposes. Twenty eight of these rooms are utilized for class instructions, one room for
Science Laboratory, a room for industrial arts, one room for the library, 2 rooms for the
property custodian and one room for the Office of the Principal. Should there be
allocation for administrative rooms all classrooms provided could have been utilized for
instructional purposes. Unfortunately physical facilities infrastructure program exclude
the construction of administrative rooms. From SY 2005-2006 to 2007-2008, no
additional rest rooms were constructed. However, for the current year (2009-2010)
additional two unit rest rooms (with 6 toilet bowls) were built thru the Principal Led
Water and Sanitation program. The restrooms have special features that accommodate
special needs of the physically handicapped. The school water supply is classified as
level 2, though it’s not fit for drinking, at least there is enough supply for rest room
needs as well as for watering plants.

The existing business operation of the Scrap and junk shops in the locality has
encouraged scavengers to burglarize school properties including the pilfering of
electrical wires by spools. All cases of burglary were properly documented and reported
to the police. To prevent, if not, minimize burglary cases, the school continue to pursue
its intent to reroute the road that passes through the school property and enclose the
perimeter with concrete fence. For the current year, the enclosed space of the ongoing
parameter fence construction is 60% , while road rerouting project was given approval
by the Sanguniang Bayan Council in the amount of P 2M.

The Local Government Unit (LGU) has solved the issue by proposing to
construct a road by-pass in order to enclose the whole campus with parameter fence.
The proposed road relocation program is now in its pre-implementation stage while the
fence construction is an ongoing project with a yearly budget of One Hundred Fifty
Thousand Pesos (P150, 000.00).

The Secondary School Alternative (SSA) Team identified several factors causing
the high dropout rate of students. These are: poor attendance in classes,
disengagement of school activities, peer pressure, pregnancy, failing grades, broken
home, loss of a family member, lack of parental support, teacher factor, lack of proper
monitoring, lack of counselling, presence of amusement centre, and the gap between
the school and local officials. The Student at Risk of Dropping Out (SARDO)
intervention programs, were then implemented to save students from dropping out of
School; close monitoring of students’ attendance, home visitations, conference with
parents and counselling sessions of clientele students were implemented to promote
the Drop Out Reduction Program of the School.

The School Drop Out rate from SY 2004-2005 to SY2007-2008 has decreased.
The decrease in drop out can be attributed to the School’s initiated intervention
program. The school being a recipient of the secondary schooling alternative (SSA)
foresees in the next five years to have met the planning standard of 2% if not zero
percent dropout rate. For the current year, remedial class program in reading and
comprehension is being implemented serving students with learning difficulties in
different learning areas. These students were identified and chosen from the four
curriculum year level and were picked up to undergo remediation process in reading.

The school performance rating for the past three years:

2005-2006 2006-2007 2008-2009

NAT 41.60 35.43 42.04
*NAT data not available in SY 2007-2008

The lowest school performance ever noted was 35.43 in SY 2006-2007. In SY

2008-2009 the overall result of the NAT was 42.04. A difference of .44 compared to SY
2005-2006 with an overall result of 41.60. The school’s academic performance is
actually not fulfilling. The attitude of students to learn and their commitment to regularly
attend class sessions remains a dilemma. Cutting classes is a perennial issue making
worse the academic performance of truant students.

The school performance within the three successive school years seemed
unstable. The sudden increase and decrease in performance rating has become
alarming. The student’s performance rate in Mathematics and science has decreased
in school year 2007-2007 compared to last school year. The prevailing low MPS in
English subject is caused by poor reading comprehension which also influenced
performance in Science and Mathematics. MAKABAYAN subjects also fell back by few
points.

Parents’ consultative meetings have been noted as not so impressive and

significant, based on the attendance gathered every PTA general assembly meeting.
Those who have been attending the meeting were observed to be very participative in
the decision making process. Support from the LGU has been clearly characterized to
be more on the allocation of Special Education Fund (SEF) which is both shared by the
Secondary and the Elementary. School obligations itemized under SEF are: Personnel
Services, Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE) and Capital outlay. For
the current year, the SEF allocation for the Secondary Schools of Manjuyod was in the
amount of P895,715.00 (regular budget) and P567,100.00 (supplemental budget).
These figures are taken from the P2.4M (regular budget) and P1.2M (supplemental
budget) respectively.