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and walls. Additional teachers were borrowed from other schools.
Mrs. Angelita Balisi, the next principal, worked hard for the construction of two threestorey
buildings. and one four-storey building. After ten years of serving the school and the
children of the community where the school is, Mrs. Balisi retired and Mrs. Myrna Teves took over.
Although she stayed in the school for just one year, everyone felt a friendly environment because of
the school’s full implementation of Child Friendly School System (CFSS) under her term. Mrs.
Lilia Labaco replaced her and served as school principal of Kalayaan Elementary School for two
years.
With the retirement of Mrs. Labaco, Mrs. Avelita Mercado was assigned for the
principalship. During her term, the school population has continued to grow, reaching more than 4,100
children. The exerted efforts of the principal with the cooperation of the teachers, parents and the community
as a whole, the school has become the show window of the Division of Pasay City for its very
successful implementation of Child-Friendly School System and for serving as Pilot School for
Student Tracking System (STS) in the National Capital Region.
In the year 2011, twenty years after its lowly birth with Mr. Librado F. Torres as its school
headmaster, the Kalayaan Elementary School has renewed its mark as one of the city’s premier
academic institutions.
Throughout his term, the school was considered as one of the biggest in the city in term of
population in the sense that its enrolment reached more than 4,229 pupils. Furthermore, this institution
has become the exemplar of the entire division for its unique actualization of the School Based
Management (SBM) Program.
Prior to his reassignment to other academic institution the covered court of the school was
constructed.
Recently, Mr. Rodulfo C. Tirol is the school administrator who will continue to uphold its
journey for academic brilliancy, significance and efficacy.
Kalayaan Elementary School in Pasay City is a complete elementary school offering
prescribed curriculum for Preschool, Primary Grades and Intermediate Grades. All teachers handle
monograde classes which are divided into two shifts: Grades One, Three and Six recite in the morning
while Grades Two, Four and Five recite in the afternoon. Preschool classes are also divided, reciting in
both sessions or shifts.