More learners are expected to enroll in the coming days in public and private schools in the Cordillera, as the Department of Education recorded a total of 362,381 students for school year 2022-2023.
Based on the Learner’s Information System of DepEd-Cordillera as of Aug. 17, there are 194,306 enrolled in elementary; 112,423 learners for junior high school; and 55,652 enrolled in senior high school for private and public schools.
DepEd-Cordillera Information Officer Cyrille Miranda said the number of enrollees is still at 80.85 percent compared to the learners who officially enrolled during the school year 2021-2022 which is 448, 205.
DepEd-Cordillera expects the number of enrollees to increase if classes open on Aug. 22.
DepEd-Cordillera Director Estela Cariño assured the agency is doing its best in preparing the schools to cater to the full implementation of face-to-face classes.
But she said there will still be various learning modalities to be used depending on the assessment of the needs of the respective schools.
A total of 1,308 schools in the Cordillera will conduct in-person classes for five days, 629 schools will use blended learning modality, and four schools will conduct full distance learning.
For the five days in-person classes, Benguet has the highest number of schools with 316, followed by Abra with 279, Mountain Province with 189, Apayao with 181, Kalinga with 153, Ifugao with 108, Tabuk City with 70, and Baguio with 12.
Ifugao has accounted 174 schools that will implement blended learning modality followed by Benguet with 116, Mountain Province with 92, Baguio City and Abra with 63 each, Tabuk City with 49, Kalinga with 48, and Apayao with 24.
Abra, which was the epicenter of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake, has four schools that will implement full distance learning. DepEd-Cordillera is also conducting regular monitoring and validation of activities by providing technical assistance for readiness and safety of schools, and coordination with the various disaster risk reduction management offices and local government units. – Ofelia C. Empian
