Gaggabutan Elementary school is situated along the highway in the eastern part of the municipality of Rizal. It is about 5 km from the town proper, 2 km from the nearest public school which is Villa Cruz Elementary School and 1 km from Illuru National High School, the nearest secondary public school and 4 km from the nearest private high school and the district office. The Division Office is 80 km away from the school. It has a total area of 10,055 sq.m. As per records the school is from incidence of crimes, human – induced hazard for the past three years.

Gaggabutan Elementary School is a complete elementary school serving 319 pupils as of October 2020. It has 14 classrooms, one home economics building and one school office. The school is headed by a lady Principal with 13 female teachers and 1 male teacher. Despite this limitation, the school together withal its stakeholders are doing their best to cater the needs of the three hundred nineteen pupils enrolled, thus, providing them quality basic education.

In terms of the education programs implemented in the school, the Remedial Class Program and Reading Program is so far most functional one. This is evident in their NAT results and the District Reading Test Results. The school is very serious in its effort to improve the quality of basic education it offers despite of the limited availability of technology-based instructional materials and other school facilities. Aside from this, the school has the following structures: Material Recovery Facility (MRF); Nursery; Reading Kiosks; Mini gym; herbal and vegetable gardens.

Farming is the main means of livelihood of most of the parents who are sending their children in GAGGES, but not all of them are landowners. Many of them are paid laborers or servants. Some venture into business like trading and retailing. Few households are government employees and overseas workers but many of them have no permanent source of income too. They survive through the provision of labor finance during planting and harvesting seasons. However, although they do not have a fixed income and regular means of livelihood, they all send their children to elementary schools.