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OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY SCHOOL - De La Salle Supervised
Tanza, Cavite             THE OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY SCHOOL
                                A Brief Background

            The Our Lady of the Holy Rosary School (OLHRS) was borne out of love for the poor. It started in school year 1993-1994 when Amaya Elementary School, a nearby public school phased out its pre-school classes. The parents of these pupils were surprised by this change and suddenly found their children “school-less”. Since the majority of them belong to a lower income group, they cannot afford to send their children to private schools and pay high fees.
Concerned with the displaced and eager-to-learn children, Rev. Fr. Ariel M. Lisama, who during that, time was preparing for his ordination to the diaconate and Mrs. Veronidia L. de Leon, a De La Salle University professor, volunteered to extend their services to these poor children for free. They housed the children in a big garage, which they converted into a classroom; hired a teacher whom they supported by the monthly fee paid, by the said children (P 60.00 for Kinder; P 40.00 for Nursery). The volunteer administrators and the civic-minded parents who banded together and agreed to continue the schooling of their children shouldered test papers and other miscellaneous expenses. Religious and health services were extended by volunteer seminarians from Our Lady of the Pillar Seminary and friends of Fr. Ariel.

          After a school year, a two-classroom school building was built by the joint efforts of Fr. Ariel and Mrs. de Leon. From then on, the school continuously provides Catholic education to the children in the community and nearby towns. It became a Catholic school owned and operated by the Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Educational Foundation, Inc., a non-profit, non-stock corporation. In 1996 it earned the supervision of the Lasallian Schools Supervision Office (LASSO) De La Salle University-Manila.

OLHRS High School Department


OLHRS in its search for meaningful existence reviewed the school operations the past years to ascertain what it has become and what it is yet to become.  As an institution whose significant mission is to give quality Catholic education to the youth, OLHRS decided to carry on and in school year 2003-2004 the secondary level was opened.
   The First and Second year pupils were accepted.  Permit to operate was submitted and approved by the Department of Education.  The classes were housed in a three-classroom building in the five-hundred square meter lot rented by the school.
   It was in the same year when a prominent citizen of Tanza sold a portion of his lot in Mulawin to the administrators of the school.  December 8, 2003, feast of the Immaculate Conception, the ground breaking ceremony was held which signalled the construction of the high school building in the five-thousand square meter lot at Rosaryville Cmpd., Mulawin, Tanza, Cavite.