Top High Schools in the Philippines 1992
Clyde Adkins
Top High Schools in the Philippines 1992
The Department of Education recently released a list of the country's
leading high schools, based on their students' performance over the
last five years in the National Collegiate Entrance Examination
(NCEE). As with the medical and nursing board exams, the reliability
of using NCEE scores should not be used as the sole indicastor of a
school's academic standard. Nevertheless, it does offer one criterion
for evaluating the schools.
High School Division Region
1. Philippine Science HS Quezon City NCR
2. Andres Soriano Memorial Toledo City VII
3. Xavier School Quezon City NCR
4. Mother Goose Special Science HS Dagupan City I
5. Ateneo de Manila U HS Quezon City NCR
6. Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary Bohol VII
7. Faith Academy Rizal IV
8. Immaculate Concepcion Seminary Bulacan III
9. Manila Science HS Manila NCR
10. Cebu International School Cebu City VII
11. Sacred Heart School Tacloban City VIII
12. Saint Pius X Seminary Roxas City VI
13. Science Development HS of Aklan Aklan VI
14. De la Salle Zobel HS Pasay NCR
15. Dole Philippines School South Cotabato XI
16. Santiago Cultural Inst. Isabela II
17. Immaculate Concepcion Minor Seminary Ilocos Sur I
18. Cebu City National Science High School Cebu City VII
19. Quezon City National Quezon City NCR Science High School
20. Sto. Nin~o Seminary Aklan VI
21. Philippine Science HS Davao City XI
22. Bohol Wisdom School Bohol VII
23. Sacred Heart School for Boys Cebu City VII
24. Southridge Pasay NCR
25. St Peter, the Apostle Manila NCR
26. UNO High School Manila NCR
27. St Jude Catholic School Manila NCR
28. Poveda Learning Center Quezon City NCR
29. Andres Soriano Jr Memorial School Masbate V
30. Woodrose Pasay NCR
31. Immaculate Concepcion Academy Quezon City NCR
32. UP Rural High School Laguna IV
33. Iloilo Central Commercial High School Iloilo City VI
34. St Francis School Bacolod City IV
35. Brent International School Quezon City NCR
36. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Seminary Quezon IV
37. Trinity Christian School Bacolod City VI
38. Mariano Marcos State Univ Laoag City I
39. Miriam College Foundation Quezon City NCR
40. Jubilee Christian Academy Quezon City NCR
41. St Paul Colleges Bulacan III
42. Cebu Eastern College Cebu City VII
43. Divine Word Academy Dagupan City I
44. St Gregory the Great Seminary Albay V
45. St Augustine Seminary Mindoro Oriental IV
46. Tay Tung High School Bacolod City VI
47. School of the Holy Spirit Quezon City NCR
48. International School Pasay NCR
49. UP College Cebu High School Cebu City VII
50. Bayanihan Institute Tarlac III
Szu-Wen Huang
Clyde Adkins (sha...@syix.com) wrote:
: Top High Schools in the Philippines 1992
: The Department of Education recently released a list of the country's
: leading high schools, based on their students' performance over the
: last five years in the National Collegiate Entrance Examination
: (NCEE). As with the medical and nursing board exams, the reliability
: of using NCEE scores should not be used as the sole indicastor of a
: school's academic standard. Nevertheless, it does offer one criterion
: for evaluating the schools.
Actually, the NCEE is a particularly poor measure of academic standards.
Typically, students in the NCR do not accord a whole lot of weight with
the NCEE, since nobody ever really fails it, and only actually failing
it would have dire consequences. The tests I paid attention to were
the individual College Admission Tests (whose existence alone proves
the inadequacy of the NCEE). Without reviewing at all and hardly
knowing Filipino (which accounted for some of the questions) I scored
quite high in the NCEE. On the other hand, many provincial schools
take the NCEE quite seriously and actually spend time preparing for
it.
Offering a point of reference (not just bragging), I scored 99+ in the
NCEE and I graduated at around rank 30 (or lower, I don't know :) )
in a batch of under 400. In other words, at *least* the top 10
percentile in my batch scored 99+ or better. At face value, my
school doesn't sound bad, does it? It didn't even rank in the first
50. :) I'm not complaining or anything, since I know my school
doesn't place a whole lot of emphasis in academics, but I wanted to
show that using NCEE to judge schools is rather skewed, as you
mentioned. I suggest adding the additional criteria of actual
college admissions (such as college acceptances per student) or have
college professors judge relative competence of students from each
school. This is of course unfair to the provincial schools because
more of their students do not go to college for financial or other
reasons than NCR schools.