Magmarale Elementary School started to implement its objectives as early a 1924. It first accommodated  40  school children and handled by one classroom teacher.

         There was brief interruption in 1941 due to the occupation of the Japanese Imperial Army. The school ground was served as the garrison for about six months. All folks in the barangay believe the ground became the burial sites for the people who opposed their presence.

         Due to the good outcome of the first recipients of formal education, two good samaritans in the names of Moises Palomo  and Rufo Manalastas donated the lot where the school erected.

          At present Magmarale elementary School  houses 267 school children. It is under the supervision of a head teacher, nine classroom teachers and one non-teaching personnel.

Magmarale is a hilly place with thick forest in many places. Plenty of “Buho”, a kind of wild bamboo, grew the near the brook which ran southward down to the boundary of San Miguel and San Ildefonso . he barrio got its name during the revolution.

      One day, while Kapitan Miguel Pineda was looking out of casa real, he saw a great number of Spanish soldiers come from Sto. Rosario , Mandile . Immediately he ordered his man to hide in the forests because they were unprepared at the time. He shouted to them , “Sunod kitang gubat” , ayan malaguwa kayo, sureta ring sundalong Castilla daratang”, which is English means: Hide in the forest at once, Spanish soldiers are coming.

       All at once his men rushed to the forest. One of them saw a group of the soldier going to their direction, so he shouted to his companions in a mixed Tagalog- Pampango ( he being a tagalog) dialect “ Marale tayo, magmarale , mataming sundalo ang sumusunod sa atin. From this words came the word “ Magmarale” which became the official name of the barrio, up to the present time.

       These are two sitious within the teritorial  jurisdiction  of the barrio – Pacalag and Biclat. A big portion of the place was once owned by the family of Trinidad Tecson, popularly known that time as Trining , the mother of Biak- na – Bato.

       In 1943 the Japanese Army used the school building and the chapel as their headquarters for almost six months. After the liberation of San Miguel in 1945, some Japanese stragglers came down from the mountains and killed some of the people of the barrio. From then several families moved to the poblacion because of fear.