Over 154K learners pre- register for SY 2024- 2025

I LOILO City – As of Wednesday morning, Feb. 7, some 154,649 learners in Western Visayas have registered early for the school year (SY) 2024-2025.

Early registration for incoming kindergarten and grades 1, 7 and 11 learners in public schools started on Jan. 27 and will run until Feb. 23.

Department of Education ( DepEd) Region 6 data showed that incoming Grade 1 learners have the most number of registrants at 54,494, followed by Grade 11 ( 35,609), kindergarten ( 32, 875), and Grade 7 (31,671).

Below is the breakdown per schools division offices (SDOs):

* Aklan – 8,691 * Antique – 16,403

* Bacolod City – 4,738

* Bago City – 1,935

* Cadiz City – 4,698

* Capiz – 10,935

* Escalante City – 1,877

* Guimaras – 4,916

* Himamaylan City – 2,213

* Iloilo – 48,750

* Iloilo City – 6,456

* Kabankalan City – 2,210

* La Carlota City – 1,780

* Negros Occidental – 26,800

* Passi City – 1,439

* Sagay City – 2,492

* San Carlos City – 1,489 * Silay City – 1,881 * Sipalay City – 1,706 * Victorias City – 1,488 Hernani Escullar Jr. , DepEd-6 information officer, urged parents and guardians of incoming kindergarten and grades 1, 7 and 11 children to go to the school where they intend to enroll their child, fill out the Basic Education Enrollment Form and submit it to the personnel in-charge of early registration.

The documentary requirement needed is birth certificate or any document that could serve as proof of the child’s identity.

The DepEd- 6 reiterated that there are no fees required for early registration.

For the Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas ( GIDA) or remote barangays, early registration drop boxes could be made available for parents or guardians in barangay halls to collect and submit the form.

The DepEd central office has only allotted one month for the early registration, thus parents or guardians are advised to register their children early.

If parents or guardians could not make it to the month-long early registration, they could still enroll their children on the schedule to be released by the DepEd in the coming weeks.

The Dep Ed -6 also encouraged private schools to conduct early registration on the same dates.

The purpose of t he early registration, Escullar explained, is for the DepEd to start the necessary preparations and proper planning for SY 2024-2025./