The San Jose City National High School is a public secondary school in San Jose, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, was established in 1944 with 321 students enrolled and with only a few teachers. Classes in those times were held in makeshift rooms constructed of bamboo and talahib. Other classes were conducted in unoccupied first floors of residential homes. Through the cooperative efforts of the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) and the community, an eight hectare lot was acquired and purchased through funds they were able to raise. Quonset huts made of cogon used by the Americans as barracks were used as temporary rooms. A warehouse made of sawali (woven split bamboo mats) and GI sheets inside the campus was also converted into classrooms. The school was formerly named North Provincial High School and later Constancio Padilla National High School, when the town of San Jose was converted into a chartered city on August 10, 1969,[1] the North Provincial High School became San Jose City High School. By virtue of Batas Pambansa Bilang 261 authored by Assemblyman Narciso S. Nario,[2] the school was nationalized and named San Jose City National High School which was approved on November 13, 1982. The following year, Assemblyman Leopoldo Diaz passed a Bill Batas Pambansa Bilang 650 changing its name to Constancio Padilla National High School, in honor of Constancio Padilla, former congressman of Nueva Ecija and a member of the First Congress of the Republic of the Philippines.. [3] On November 9, 2015, the Sangguniang Panlungsod of San Jose City passed Ordinance No. 15-130 renaming/reverting the school's name to San Jose City National High School. It has Science Technology and Engineering (STE) program , Special Program in the Arts (SPA), and Regular Classes, it also has the Special Program in Foreign Language (SPFL) and Special Program in Journalism (SPJ). The school also offers Special Education (SPEd) and Open High School Program (OHSP).
