GENERAL GUIDELINES
(DECS Service Manual 2000, IV Regulations Directly Affecting Pupils/Students)
It is the policy of the State to provide for a free and compulsory public elementary and a free public secondary education (D.O. No, 44, s, 1988). Conformably, the following shall be observed:
a. No Filipino pupil/student shall be refused admission, by reason of sex, creed, socio-economic status, racial or ethnic origin, political or other affiliation, in the public system. However. due to limited space in a particular school some students may be referred to other public schools preferably within the community or they may be referred to private schools under the Educational Service Contracting Scheme.
b. Admission to central schools and school identified as leader schools, science or science and technology schools shall be based on established criteria, (D.O. No, 44, s, 1988)
LAGAO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL 