Elizabeth Seton School
| Elizabeth Seton School | |
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| Address | |
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BF Resort Drive, BF Resort Village, Las Piñas, Metro Manila (Main Campus), Imus City, Cavite (South Campus) Philippines | |
| Information | |
| Type | Coeducational, Catholic |
| Established | 1975 |
| President | Dr. Roberto T. Borromeo |
| Principal |
Las Piñas Campus Ligaya Quiambao GS Dr. Delia Navaza HS Cavite Campus Pilarcita Geluz Academic head |
| Grades | Pre-kindergarten - grade 10 |
| Campus | Urban, ~30,000 m² |
| Color(s) | Green and gold |
| Mascot | Twin Doves |
| Accreditation | PAASCU |
| Website | www.ess.edu.ph |
Elizabeth Seton School is a private school in BF Resort, Las Piňas City and in Anabu 2-D, Imus City, Cavite, The Philippines.
School history
In 1975, the educator Dr. Josefina V. Suarez and her brother-in-law, the businessman Fernando B. Alido, collaborated to establish a pre-school in Bacoor, Cavite. They named the school after Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, an American saint who established a religious community of teaching sisters and laid the foundation of the Catholic parochial system in America. The day on which Seton was proclaimed a saint by the Catholic Church was also the day on which Suarez received her permit from the Department of Education to open a school. Thus, she named her school after Elizabeth Seton.
The school started with two classes in the school year 1975-1976 with 14 pupils in the morning and 20 pupils in the afternoon, both handled by Suarez, while both families attended to other tasks connected with running a school.
Every year after its establishment, an increasing number of new students sought admission. The parents of existing students did not want to transfer their children when they reached higher grades. To address this, additional teachers were hired and levels were added each school year. In 1979, the school opened the first batch of grade school students.
During its formative stages, the school had to move to four different sites to accommodate its increasing population, until it settled in 1987 in its permanent location in BF Resort Village, Las Piñas, which also housed the first batch of high school students. From then on, the school proclaimed its status as a Catholic School with fervent spiritual guidance from the Oblates of Divine Love Community from Rome, paving way for the construction of the school chapel which was blessed by Jaime Cardinal Sin and Monsignor Josefino Ramirez of the Archdiocese of Manila in 1989.
After receiving its Level I Accreditation from the Philippine Accrediting Association of School, Colleges and Universities in July 1997, the school management decided to create another campus to ease the congestion in the main campus and to serve the needs of residents farther south. In its 23rd year, the Elizabeth Seton School-South campus at Anabu II-D, Imus City, Cavite was opened. To enrich the spiritual development of the South campus, a two story chapel was constructed and blessed in 2008 by Bishop Luis Antonio Tagle and Monsignor Josefino Ramirez.
Elizabeth Seton School is currently on its Level II Accreditation and is dubbed by PAASCU as the "School of the Future". The school won the first Excellence in Educational Transformation Award and is considered the most transformative school in the country [1]
40th Anniversary Celebration
On January 30, 2016 Elizabeth Seton School celebrated their 40th anniversary on a musical show at Solaire Resort & Casino theatre on a three-hour two-part musical documentary show performed by selected students in both Main ang Imus (South) campuses. [2]