QC to build 11 school buildings

The Quezon City government is set to build 11 more school buildings in line with Mayor Feliciano Belmonte’s ongoing development of public educational system.

One of the 11 school buildings scheduled to be built is the Betty Go-Belmonte Elementary School in Barangay Doña Imelda. The construction of the 11 newly proposed buildings will be bidded out during a quarterly public auction on Aug. 31.

Belmonte has instructed City Treasurer’s Office to include in the city’s infrastructure bidding program for the third quarter of the year for the 11 proposed public school buildings.

The other new school buildings will be for the Bagong Pag-asa Elementary School in Barangay Bagong Pag-asa; Bagong Silangan Elementary School in Barangay Bagong Silangan; San Bartolome Elementary School in Brgy. San Bartolome; Novaliches; Batino Elementary School in Project 3; Belarmino Elementary School in Barangay Amihan, Project 4; and Fort Aguinaldo Elementary School in Barangay San Roque.

The secondary school buildings will be for Lagro High School in Barangay Pasong Putik, Lagro; Novaliches High School in Barangay San Agustin, also in Novaliches; Quirino High School in Project 3, and Camp Aguinaldo High School in Barangay Murphy.

Belmonte assured that "while we continue to improve the city’s public educational system, the city government is also vigorously pursuing the implementation of school building program to ensure that students from urban poor communities are also provided access to quality education."

Belmonte disclosed plans to construct additional school buildings to curb classroom shortage, especially in District II, the city’s most depressed area. District II comprises Barangays Commonwealth, Holy Spirit, Payatas, Batasan Hills and the Novaliches area.

To date, Quezon City has 41 high schools and 96 elementary schools in 142 barangays. – Pamela Samia