Ateneo Senior High School will be co-ed in SY 2016-2017

The Board of Trustees of Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City has approved opening its Senior High School to female students starting school year 2016-2017, its president announced Friday.

 

In a statement posted on the university's website, Fr. Jose Ramon Villarin, SJ said the creation of senior high school "completes the planned restructuring of our basic education program into six years of grade school and six years of high school."

 

By school year 2016-2017, Ateneo High School will have four years of junior high school, or Grades 7 to 10, and two years of senior high school, or Grades 11 and 12.

 

Senior high school will be open to Grade 11 students already in Ateneo and 300 more from other schools.

 

"The 300 additional new entrants, both boys and girls, will be chosen from public, parochial and select private schools all over the country," he said.

"In view of our desire to provide quality education and leadership formation for those coming mainly from the public school system, 100 scholarship grants will be offered in the Senior High School to academically gifted but financially challenged students," he also said.

 

Villarin said the two years of senior high school will be part of the preparation for college. He said the Ateneo Grade School and Junior High School will still be exclusively for boys. — JDS, GMA News