There are two buildings under the Lapu-Lapu City Division of the Department of Education (DepEd) whose structural integrity has been deemed compromised.

This was confirmed by assessment of DepEd’s division engineer ahead of the reopening of classes this 2026.

The two buildings are feared to collapse should a strong earthquake - like the magnitude 7.8 that struck off Sarangani Province in Mindanao on June 8, 2026 - will hit Cebu.

The buildings are a two-story, six-classroom building at the Sta. Rosa National High School and a two-story, four-classroom building at the Felipe Matbagon High School, both in Olango Island. 

The two buildings are no longer being used and DepEd Lapu-Lapu said it has already requested that they be demolished and replaced by new ones.

The magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Sarangani happened on the day thousands of students and teachers returned to schools for the first day of classes.

The outcome would have been much worse had they been inside buildings when the quake struck. Fortunately, they were in open spaces to attend the flag raising ceremony.

A classroom building at the Matanao National High School in Davao del Sur, which was damaged during a previous quake, collapsed that day.

Back in Cebu, in Talisay City, a Technical Working Group was formed to assess government buildings, including public schools near the fault line.

These schools near the fault line in the city like the Campo 4 Elementary School and those in Jaclupan, Tapul, and Maghaway.

The city said risk assessment is necessary to establish the buildings’ structural integrity or determine if structural integrity has been compromised, especially that of old structures.