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School Name : Saint Mary’s University High School-Science High School
School Address : Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines
School’s Vision : Excellence, Innovation, Communion and Passion for Christ’s Mission

At first, it is the initiative of Msgr. Constant Jurgens, the CICM, then parish priest of Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya and one of the eraliest CICM missionaries to arrive in the Philippines who wants to establish a Catholic school for the children in his parish. However, Jurgens was recalled to Europe to become the Director of the Bishop Hammer Institution in the Netherlands. It was Achilles de Gryse, Jurgens’ successor, who pursued his dream through. Thus, Saint Mary’s Elementary School was inaugurated in June 1928. Then, Godfrey Lambrecht as director and Margaretha Hermus as principal opened the Saint Mary’s High School in 1934.

In 1947, Saint Mary’s College was opened by offering programs in Associate of Arts, Bachelor of Science in Education, Bachelor of Arts, and Junior Normal. Gradually, the course offerings expanded with Bachelor of Science in Commerce (1951), Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (1955), and the Graduate School (1962). Then the Belgian missionary congregation Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae took over the ownership and also the management of Saint Mary’s College in 1967.

The college’s physical expansion program started with the purchase and development of the campus by the Magat River in 1968. The college was transferred to its new site in 1969. Saint Mary’s College was granted university status under the presidency of Rev. Fr. John Van Bauwel, CICM, and became known as Saint Mary’s University. Now, the president of Saint Mary’s University is Rev. Fernold, CICM.

Meanwhile, the school’s principal of Saint Mary’s University High School-Science High School is Melencio G. Bernandino Jr. It is the laboratory school of Saint Mary’s University. The school conducts the lesson from Monday to Friday at 7.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. The flag ceremony is always be held twice a week, on Monday and Friday. The students have two break times; at 10 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. They always go home at the lunch break (at 11.30 p.m) and have to come back before 1.00 p.m. There are two grades in Saint Mary’s University – Senior High School. They are grade 11 and grade 12. There are around 40-45 students in each classes. In each classroom there are fans (around 4 to 5), black board, and LED TV along with the speaker.

This school takes teaching materials based on k to 12. Every subject has two books. First book for teacher as teacher’s guide and second book for students. However, teachers usually add more materials from internet or other resources.
According to the K to 12 Basic Education Program, this school uses a standards- and competency-based grading system. These are found in the curriculum guides. All grades will be based on the weighted raw score of the learners’ summative assessments. The minimum grade needed to pass a specific learning area is 60, which is transmuted to 75 in the report card. The lowest mark that can appear on the report card is 60 for Quarterly Grades and Final Grades. For these guidelines, the school will use a floor grade considered as the lowest possible grade that will appear in a learner’s report card. Learners from Grades 1 to 12 are graded on Written Work, Performance Tasks, and Quarterly Assessment every quarter. These three are given specific percentage weights that vary according to the nature of the learning area.