DepEd reports drop in Baguio City enrollment

By Gaby B. Keith

BAGUIO CITY -- The Dept. of Education (DepEd) Schools Division of Baguio reported a slight drop in enrollment this year in both public and private elementary and secondary schools here for school year 2023-2024.
    DepEd Baguio superintendent Soraya Faculo said a total of 93,183 learners enrolled in the Summer Capital's public and private elementary, junior high schools and senior high schools.
    Faculo noted a decrease of about one percent compared to the 94,136 enrollees in school year 2022-2023, and 1.6 percent drop compared to 94,775 enrollees during the school year 2021-2022.
    Faculo cited the report after attending the flag-raising ceremony at City Hall on Monday, September 18.
    For the current school year (2023-2024), the enrollment is broken down as follows: elementary, 35,857 (public), 9,913 (private); junior high school, 21,498 (public), 7,142 (private); and senior high school, 6,903 (public), 11,845 (private).

As to readiness of the city's elementary and secondary schools in terms of sufficiency of chairs, the report stated a "ready" rating of 96.46 percent in the elementary division and a 97.80 percent "ready" rating in the secondary division.

In the sufficiency of classrooms, the city's elementary schools got a "ready" rating of 94.89 percent while a 97.89 percent "ready" rating was given the secondary learning institutions.

Earlier, Mayor Benjamin Magalong broached the possibility of using some of the more than 100 trees felled by Typhoon "Egay" for making chairs or desks.