A NARRATIVE BASED ON THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY DATA

TEMPLATE AND THE SCHOOL REPORT CARD

It is becoming evident that schools and community are working closely with

each other in addressing barriers to development and learning, in promoting healthy

and safe environment and in meeting their mutual goals and objectives in general.

Clearly, these aims and plans of the school are all documented and recorded to

make everything transparent, organized and systematic. The School Improvement Plan

is a roadmap that lays down specific interventions that a school, with the help of the

community and other stakeholders will undertake within a period of three consecutive

school years. The implementation of development of activities integral to it are in the

school such as projects under Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP), the creation and

mobilization of Learning Action Cells (LACs) and the preparation of School Report

Card. (DO 44, s. 2015).

School and community data are presented and interpreted in the School-

Community Data template which are arranged in a way that can be easily understood

and followed. The template is divided into two main parts which are I. School Profile

Data and II. Situation of Children/Learners that focus on Access and Quality. The

School Profile data is subdivided into seven (7)parts, which are as follows:

1. Geography

2. Learning Environment

3. Teachers

4. Children Health and Safety

5. Status of Priority Improvement Projects

6. Stakeholders’ Support to Education

 The School Report Card of Lalog Elementary School provides a more

evidenced-based, responsive, systematic approach that aids the school in planning with

their learners’ perspective in mind.

The data shows that Lalog Elementary School is situated 5 km away from the

poblacion and 50 km away from the Schools Division Office of Isabela.

The SBM level of practice has a developing structures and mechanisms

with acceptable level and extent of community participation and impact of learning

outcomes.

In addition to this, the School quality and governance are presented in the SRC,

which includes the Literacy level of pupils having grade 6 with the highest percentage

of learners passing the GST.

Meanwhile, the Learner Teacher Ratio reflects that the highest is grade 3 with

an excess of one learner per class as compared to the one that is recommended. At

present, there are 4 teachers in T-1 Position, 4 T-3’s and 1 MT-1. These teaching force

of LES work cooperatively for the attainment of educational goals and objectives of the

Department.

On the other aspect, which is the Toilet to Learners Ration, there are enough

for all learners but majority of these are shared by both male and female. The condition

of the Annual Implementation Plan (AIP) shows also that for the previous year, the

school has proposed 5 major projects as included in the AIP. There were two completed

projects, 3 proposed and on-going.

Furthermore, the status of health and nutrition of the children shows that in the

current school year, there is a total of 27.61 percent of pupils who fall outside normal

status and 85.9 percent of pupils from kinder to grade 6 fall under normal health status.
 The male enrolment has increased from 112 to 119 while the female

enrolment has decreased from 119 to 109 within this school year which can be

attributed to transfer of residence or migration and family problem.

Meanwhile, school awards and recognition has increased due to the awards

received during higher level press conferences, wherein it can be attributed to the

increasing number of learner’ materials, continuous professional advancement of

teachers, trainings and conferences attended by the faculty and school head constant

encouragement of the school and the community for the children to attend classes

regularly.

As to the source of funds, donation from the Local Government Unit (LGU)

marked the biggest which is 50.83 percent of the total fund source, followed by MOOE

with a total amount of 192,000, Canteen Funds which had a total of 457,837.00, while

others fall under donations with a total of 124,133.00.

Evidently, the overall status of the school has shown a great partnership of the

school and community where mutual goals and objectives are met, barriers that hamper

the development and learning are addressed and health and safe environment is

prioritized.