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HISTORY OF BENIGNO AQUINO JR. HIGH SCHOOL

     On August 3, 1983, the National Housing Authority (NHA) allotted a total lot area of 3,100 sq. meters as the BSHS Campus in Phase 1 Pkg. 4, where two buildings would soon rise.  That same year, the school started to operate as a complete, all-level setup, opening its door to an initial batch of 1,104 enrolees, who were divided into manageable classes – ten for the first year level, six for the second year, four for the third year and two for the fourth year.  The enrolment, markedly sizeable for an inchoate institution, provided a foreshadow of the school’s expansion and growth potential, in parallel tide with the stream of people establishing their homes in this remote relocation estate called Bagong Silang, reputably the country’s biggest barangay at present. Lourdes M. Faustino was appointed as the school’s pioneer principal, buttressed by a 40 – individual workforce. She served in the position until 1986.

     Due to the heavy influx of the enrolment, the school had to move to a bigger campus, a sprawling idle tract just a few blocks away from the original school site. The new campus being bigger and better situated, would come to be classified as the Bagong Silang High School Main, in effect reducing the original campus to a mere academic adjunct or administrative annex – auxiliary and obeisant – subordinate to the established setup of the “Imperial Main”. The supposedly older and earlier established campus was the renamed Bagong Silang High School Unit I, an odd instance of a father becoming an offspring of his child, critical observers noted.  To this effect, central administrative seats were transferred to the main campus, with only an officer-in-charge (OIC), in a non-principal capacity and working with a truncated team, left to oversee the unit.  Classes from second year to fourth year levels were also transferred to the main, leaving only the freshmen in the downsized unit.  In subsequent school years, all enrolments were centralized to the mother campus; the most that the annex could serve was to be the receiving reserve for excess enrolees of the mother unit, specifically the first year entrants.

     School Year 2012 – 2013, we had to move to Bagong Silang HS Main Campus for the construction of the two new buildings in the Unit 1. The main campus allotted eight classrooms to us and the covered court where we held classes there with plywood that served as dividers for each class.

     After a year of waiting, when the two new buildings were constructed already and they’re ready to be used, we went back there to start anew. As part of the new start, we also had our Officer in charge then, Dr. Peter G. Young Jr. He continued the urgency for independence. He gathered again all the pertinent papers and went through different process so that we could have the much awaited independence. “Konting kembot na lang,” as they say and we’re on our own. Dr. Young would not stop until we finally have it.

Watch Us

THE BENIGNO AQUINO JR. HIGH SCHOOL HYMN

Composer: Mr. Alvin D. Angus

The road ahead is endless

The sun is yet to shine

Winds of change are closing in

Questions in the mind

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Your light is seen at yonder

Your fire is set ablaze

Each spark brings us closer to

The vision that you make

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REFRAIN

To you we sing, Benigno

To you we sing this song

Knowing you will always be

Forever in our hearts

To you we sing, Benigno

Praises to God

The love, the joy we've always felt

Deep within our hearts

To you we sing, Benigno

Our dreams are now unfolding

The journey will begin

Whatever life to us may bring

Your words are reassuring

As always beaming

 

Repeat Refrain

Repeat All

Repeat Refrain

 

CODA

 

To you we sing, Benig..no…

To you we sing, Benig…no…

To you we sing, Benig..no…..

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