The Rural Farm School (RFS) program aims to provide a facilitative and experiential learning on the core subjects of the K to 12 curriculums with focus on agri-fisheries, designed to address the needs of children in rural, agricultural and fishing communities.

  Specifically, the RFS intends to provide integral formation or personal development focused on human, social, moral, spiritual, and professional development with a life project that focused on family enterprise project for learners and families in the rural communities and an agent of rural development focused on social economic, political and human development.

The RFS program follows the core competencies of the K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum for Junior and Senior High School. In addition to these core competencies, adds-on curriculum as identified by the local family farm or rural association and community as their learning needs can be categorized into themes/topics. It has emphasis on agri-fishery, forestry, farm entrepreneurship, community development, education for sustainable development, and other community specific topics.

The alternance system of formation or other alternative delivery modes as approved by the DepED may be used in the curriculum implementation of the RFS program. Assessment of student learning shall be in accordance with the existing guidelines of the DepED.

       Presently, SDO Bulacan launched three (3) pilot school implementers of the program namely: Sapang Bulac HS at DRT, Angat NHS at Angat, and Gabihan HS in the Municipality of San Ildefonso as of November 2, 2022.