Saint Peters College of Ormoc

school was originally called Colegio Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe and was run by the Sisters of Compania de Jesus. With the offering of a complete intermediate course in 1926, it was renamed St. In 1930, the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of the Philippines took over the administration and called the school St. In 1966, it became St. Peter’s College of Ormoc when it first opened its portals to college students. Programs offered were: Education, Liberal Arts, Commerce, Secretarial and vocational short-term courses. In 1970, the Guidance Department was organized and in 1993, the department was chosen Best Guidance Center in the Ormoc City Division. In the same year, the High School Department was a recipient of the half-million worth of mathematics and science laboratory materials and teachers training from DOST-SEI ESEP granted to 15 private secondary schools all over the country. In 1994, The Grade School Department was awarded Excellent Private Elementary School in Region 8 and in 1997, the SPC-ROTC Unit garnered the Best Unit in the whole Philippines. The school’s quality academic standing was confirmed by its PAASCU accreditation status in 1998 when the Grade School Unit passed the formal PAASCU survey and the High School Unit foolowed in 2000. Peter’s College building structure on the main campus and annex lot across the street depicts a history of vicissitudes and survival. The imposing original San Pedro building of 1914 was destroyed by typhoons in 1928 and 1931. During the war, the 1944 Battle of Ormoc Corridor razed the building to the ground. Civic-spirited Ormocanons rendered moral and financial support to the Sisters aided by the Archbishop of Palo. The rebuilt wood structure of 1947 gave way to a gymnasium in 1975. The decision was precipitated by fears brought about by the earthquakes in southern cities of Zamboanga and Cotabato. This gym was demolished to give way in 2002 to the massive steel structure, the present SPC gymnasium. The present main building started in 1965 as a four-storey L shaped building with Sts. Peter and Paul wings. To these were added in 1971 Sts. Benedict and Scholastica’s wings, forming an inner quadrangle. The grade school St. Hildegard building with four storeys was constructed in 1997. The administration offices were housed in a structure built in 1950 together with the Sister’s chapel and convent. The latter gave way to an entirely new structure in 1982. By 2003, the chapel has enlarged to accommodate a class of students. The two-storey wooden piano house of 1950 is intact and has undergone interior renovation. The concrete one-storey building of St. Benedict Socio Pastoral Center on the same lot was built in 1990. The present building survived the historic typhoon Uring which claimed 8,000 lives in 1991. Peter’s College of Ormoc has maintained its tract record of academic excellence and solid Christian Benedictine formation. The school is proud of her alumni in all fields of endeavor in the city of Ormoc and beyond, even to foreign shores. PRESENT STATUS

St. Peter’s College of Ormoc, the only Catholic school in Ormoc and the only Benedictine school this side of the Visayas region turns 93 years old. The school has come a long way in its work for academic excellence and social transformation. At present, St. Peter’s College of Ormoc is one of the best learning institutions in Region 8. Both the Grade School and the High School Units have maintained the PAASCU Accreditation status. The College LET Review Center is among the finest in the country. The school is also a Philippine Council for NGO Certification (PCNC) accredited thus, school donors are tax exempt. The College Unit now offers a number of collegiate programs that answer to the local and national needs. Of recent addition are programs that are marketable and are globally competitive. To help financially poor but mentally rich students, the school offers scholarship grants and programs aside from government scholarship grants. The Sanctus Vincenzus Scholarship Foundation (SVSF) funds the SVSF Scholarship intended for underprivileged high school graduates coming from among the top ten percent (10%) of the graduating class where they belong. The scholarship is a study-now-pay-later plan payable in five years after graduation from the course. This is to ensure the continuity of the program to continuously sponsor its future scholars. Band Scholarship is a performing group of students who are musically gifted. They receive free musical training. The Working Students Scholarship is granted to mentally average students entering first year in college. All fees are subsidized by the school. Philberth Scholarship is offered to college students in schools run by the Missionary Benedictine Sisters in the Philippines. The subsidy is a fix amount per semester. The school is affiliated with the Association of Benedictine Schools (ABS), composed of 11 schools operating nationwide. As a school owned by the Archdiocese of Palo, St. Peter’s College of Ormoc City is a charter member of the Catholic Schools Association of the Archdiocese of Palo (CSAAP). As a Catholic school, SPC is a member of the Catholic Education Association of the Philippines (CEAP) and is also a member of the Eastern Visayas Association of Private Schools (EVAPS). From a humble beginning of bamboo and nipa in 1914, the school now boasts of a big gym complex, concrete two-storey and four storey buildings equipped with modern facilities as aides for learning and for the convenience of its clientele. It has two campuses, the main campus with two concrete four storey buildings which house the high school, grade school, and college students and while the campus across the street which has the preschoolers (Nursery, Kinder, and Prep) the Piano House and the St. Benedict Socio-Pastoral Center (SBSPC), the Benedictine Sisters and the school’s outreach arm . The school provides its clientele three spacious and well ventilated libraries, one for each unit, three audio visual rooms equipped with modern gadgets, five computer laboratories with updated computer models, three internet stations, self-contained science laboratories and three HE laboratories. On the ground floor of the Sisters’ convent is found the school chapel and school canteen beside it. The newly finished “Tuluyan ni San Pedro”, a mini-hotel, located at the north-eastern wing of the school campus, was blessed last March 2007. The mini-hotel houses BSHRM students starting June 2007. The SPC Website at www.spc-ormoc.edu.ph was launched last June 18, 2004. Its launching marked SPC’s coming of age in the information technology. The website enhances the quality of computer science educators, which the school offers. It also provides timely support to the school to answer immediate querries about the school from prospective clientele and alumni here and abroad. The past and present members of the SPC Community are grateful to Fr. Ismael Cataag, school’s founder; the generous Ormocanons for their support moral or otherwise; the dedicated then and now SPC lay educators; and the Benedictine Sisters who have committed their lives to providing the Ormocanons a Catholic Benedictine formation. (More information about SPCO is available at its website: www.spc-ormoc.educ.ph)

FLAGSHIP COURSES

St. Peter’s College of Ormoc offers the following programs: Nursery, Pre-school Education, Complete Elementary Education, Complete Secondary Education; Bachelor of Arts (Liberal Arts) majors in Political Science, Literature, English Language; Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education (BEED); Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education majors in Computer, English, General Science, Religious Education; Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) majors in Management, Entrepreneurship, Banking and Finance, Financial and Management Accounting; Bachelor of science in Computer Science (BSCS); Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT); Bachelor of Science in Information Management (BSIM); Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management (BSHRM). The school provides a Catholic Benedictine quality education to all without distinction of race or creed through a multi-disciplinary approach towards wholistic formation. The High School and Grade School Units join the ranks of the few accredited private schools in Region 8 and were able to perform at par with the leading private institutions in the country when the High School ranked 4th in the 2000 NSAT and Grade School ranked fourth in the 2000 NEAT among the private schools in the Eastern Visayas Region. As the prime educational institution in Western Leyte, it spearheaded various programs like peace education, environmental education. The school is also known for being one of the schools that produced athletes/ contestants who represent the regional and national competitions. These achievements are made possible through a well-balanced curriculum. The College programs are geared towards the concretization of what the College Unit envisions. The programs prepare students who face life’s complexities by leading them to positively respond to varied situations through encounter with the challenges of contemporary reality. The College Unit graduates students who have developed their potentials and are ready to apply technology gained for improving the quality of human life in harmony with creation and create an order that is founded on truth, justice, freedom and love. The students are equipped with the right attitudes, knowledge and skills to enable them to obtain gainful employment and work for genuine national development. Specifically, the BEED/BSED program of the school envisions and prepares students in teacher education equipped with skills and competencies in teaching in their chosen areas of specialization. Students are made aware of their role “to teach truth and practice love in a life of service”. Furthermore, the students are prepared to meet the varied challenges of the highly technological classroom settings. The BSED program will soon offer Filipino as a major in the areas of specialization. The BEED programs plans to offer specialization in Special Education (SPED) and Pre-Elementary Education.