Angara: 99% of schools open for SY 2024-2025; 673 still closed

MANILA, Philippines — Almost 99 percent of schools nationwide have already opened their classes for the School Year (SY) 2024-2025, Education Secretary Sonny Angara said on Wednesday.

Based on data as of July 31 at 7 a.m., only 673 schools have not yet opened their doors for learners to give way to ongoing cleanup and repair activities in areas affected by the southwest monsoon and typhoon Carina.

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These schools are in the National Capital Region and Regions 1, 3, and 4A.

In an ambush interview on the sidelines of the Brigada Pagbasa Partners Network Launch in Mandaluyong City, Angara said that 673 schools represent less than one percent of those expected to open for SY 2024-2025.

“So less than one percent ‘yung 600,” he said.

(So that 600 is less than one percent of all schools nationwide.)

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Meanwhile, as of 9 a.m., DepEd said that 22,440,747 students have enrolled for SY 2024-2025.

This is approximately 80 percent of the 27,722,835 students expected to enlist for the current school year.

DepEd said that number is still expected to go up until the end of the enrollment period on September 16.