CHAPTER 2 School's Current Situation, Priority Improvement Areas, General Objectives, Planning Worksheets, Root Cause Analysis School's Current Situation Pandan Elementary School has a total enrolment of 805 pupils (As of September 2019) whose residences are mostly from Barangay V and adjacent and nearby barangays as well. Of such number, 428 are boys and 377 are girls enrolled across varied grade levels from Kindergarten to Grade 6. The school has 22 instructional rooms and 4 noninstructional rooms, and 15 rooms for demoiition/condemnation. School awards and recognition have been an evident. In fact, the school received various awards in district, division and regional level competitions. This is despite the limitation on textbooks, learning materials and equipment. In almost all grade levels, the textbook ratio did not meet the national planning standard of 1:1 textbook-pupil ratio. While in Grade 6 level, only two subjects (EsP and Mathematics) have textbooks utilized by the learners. The school strives to improve the performance of the pupils and the school as a whole. It has exerted all efforts to provide quality education and keep learners in class, that is why the school's drop-out rate is less than 1% of its total enrolment. However, looking at the literacy level of pupils in both English and Filipino, the schoo! still needs to strengthen skills in reading and comprehension since 21% of pupils from Grades 3-6 and 46% from Grades 4-6 fall under Frustration Level in Filipino and English, respectively. Teachers need to sustain and continuously implement the best practices of the school, such as reading intervention and enhancement classes. Parents’ support is very much important to every pupil's learning. Teachers are the second parents; parents are the original teachers to children. Their Participation to school activities encourages the pupils to continue their quest for education. The stakeholders’ participation and contribution still in adaptable with the rate of 75% of the total attendance including co-curricular, extra-curricular, meetings and assemblies, The number of volunteer hours during scouting, contests other activities have limited financial assistance from the stakeholders. In response to this, the school still has manageably to create funding resources for the sustainability of the school projects. But during the Brigada Eskwela the school remarkably got the highest number of volunteer hours Priority Improvement Areas Pandan Elementary Schoo! [SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN 20192022 [ERI ee ae!