Vicente Hizon, Sr. Elementary School

1950, the said school was relocated to it present site. It became an elementary school in 1954 with Mrs. Carmen Reyes who hailed from Luzon was the principal. Mrs. Hizon-Velez, the daughter of the late Hizon, Sr. was one of the teachers, also with Mrs. Isabel Mapanao, the source of this information also taught in this school. As time goes on, the school increases its population. To mention some of the principals that once managed this school were the following: Miss Estrada, the late Mrs. Esperanza Catungal, Mrs. Ma. Antonia P. Diaz, Mrs. Elsa C. Maglapid, and Mrs. Germiniana S. Cortez. The present principal of this school is Mrs. Filipinas B. Samblingo. To date, the school has fifty-nine teachers and has more than two thousand students. It is situated in a 1 001 sq. meters lot. To house the increasing populace, the school still needs classrooms since some classes are held under the bleacher and some are having emergency classes. It has a covered court which was constructed through the initiative of barangay captain, Engr. Dioscoro Sampaga Jr. The Parent-Teachers Association (PTA) is the only recognized association assisting the school in terms of financial and moral as well. The PTA is the one paying the honorarium of the school guard and assists the teachers in the beautification of the schools and in some academic and non-academic activities of the school. As of this year, Davao Light and Power Company, World vision, Petron Incorporated, Aboitiz and Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce are helping the school through Adopt-A-School Program of the Department of Education. Every July 8, the school celebrates its Foundation Day which also falls on the birthday of the donor, the late Vicente Hizon, Sr.