PALO, Leyte,
June 17 (PNA) -– The Department of Education (DepEd) regional office here has
already listed 58,149 senior high school (SHS) enrollees as of Friday morning,
representing the first batch of Grade 10 completers, who will undergo the last
two years of basic education program.
The DepEd
expects that more SHS students will be counted next week as school officials
are ordered to immediately update the online-based basic education information
system.
“The number
is lower than the projected enrollment, but the figure is way higher compared
to the fraction of high school graduates who proceeded to college in the past
years,” said DepEd Eastern Visayas regional information officer Jasmin Calzita.
Of the
58,149 SHS learners, 46,812 are in 361 public schools, 10,213 enrollees in 127
private schools, and 1,124 students in 16 state universities and colleges. The
figure is still below than the 68,523 projected SHS enrollees.
“We have
offered the best and new classrooms to our SHS students so they would be
encouraged to enrol,” Calzita added.
In the past
few months, the DepEd has stepped up the information drive for students to
realize that completing Grade 10 doesn’t mean that students are high school
graduates.
“You will be
a Grade 10 completer, but not a high school graduate. Elementary graduates are
those who finish Grade 6; high school graduates must have finished Grade 12,”
she explained.
SHS covers
the last two years of the K to 12 program and includes Grades 11 and 12. In
SHS, students will go through a core curriculum and subjects under a track of
their choice.
Senior High
School “completes” basic education by making sure that the high school graduate
is equipped for work, entrepreneurship, or higher education.
LAP/SARWELL Q. MENIANO
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