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SDO Bulacan - Balatong B Elementary School
The present existing BALATONG B ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has its history before it was known as what it is today. The growth of this school can be best compared to a seed that gradually become a plant. The 4,689 square meters lot was from the kind donation of Doña Potenciana Navarro. Before, it was known as Sta. Peregrina Primary School. From a single class in 1956 it was then turned into two combination classes. There were two teachers assigned who handled the Grades I & II under Miss Anicia Espino, while Miss Lilia T. Muñoz handled the Grades III & IV. For those classes it became a primary school. After 20 long years, the former primary school turned into complete elementary school having six classrooms on October 16, 1976. The pioneering set of teachers who complete the elementary school were Mrs. Felipa P. Gutierrez, Mrs. Adoracion Mag-isa, Mrs. Carmen San Andres, Mrs. Teresita Santos, Mrs. Fe Tiongson and Mrs. Clara Morales. Later on, the high school department started in this site. Through God’s will and blessings, that time came when the high school was separated and was given its own site.
From that time on, this elementary school keep on growing in terms of pupils’ and teachers’ population, physical aspect of buildings, recognition, accomplishments and of course, the higher quality education, which speaks for the real essence of a school.
In the school year 2009-2010, the present school administrator Mrs. Juanita T. Leonardo with some prominent people in the community, worked on papers for the request on the change of name of the school. With the valid reasons presented one of which is the existing Sta. Peregrina Elementary School is located at Balatong B, Pulilan, Bulacan. Before the school year ended, on March 2010 the approval of the Philippine Historical Commission was granted. From that time on it was named Balatong B Elementary School.
Many successful educators in and out of the district of Pulilan were trained from this school when they initially explored their administrative and managerial skills. For this reason, its sentimental value to them remains of glaring.