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Don Enrique Lopez National High School is located at the hinterlands of Pagsilaan, Don Enrique Lopez, City of Mati, Davao Oriental. This secondary school serves as a home for the learners of several barangays near the area. As of 2022, the school caters to an estimated number of 500 enrolees, including those in Senior High School level.
Late Governor Leopoldo N. Lopez, Sr.
Then Governor Thelma Z. Almario
The Birth of DELNHS
The Birth of DELNHS
Back in 1964, the barangay of Don Enrique Lopez- which was still called Barrio Panombon- established its first high school through its own income. To push and maintain the initiative, the municipality of Mati, under the leadership of then Mayor Leopoldo N. Lopez, offered some financial assistance for the project. Despite the effort, the school was still shut due to insufficient fund in 1968.
In 1988, the late Davao Oriental Governor Leopoldo N. Lopez and District II Representative Thelma Z. Almario coordinated with the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS)- now Department of Education (DepEd)- to re-establish the secondary school. The move was supported by the officials of five neighboring barangays and several provincial officials.
It was in 1991 when the school was officially reopened and named as Don Enrique Lopez National High School- as it is now called. It pioneered two teachers; Mr. Primo G. Jabilles and Ms. Edwina Dapitanon. The school operated with one hundred fourteen (114) students from seven feeder elementary schools, namely: Don Enrique Elementary School, Don Salvador Elementary School, Limot Elementary School, Santa Cruz Elementary School, and Tagabakid Elementary School.
The first batch of students were housed in vacant rooms of Don Enrique Lopez Elementary School. They were later transferred to temporary classrooms, funded by
Parents and Teachers Conference Assembly (PTCA), in an area donated by the late Maria Vida de Lopez, the mother of late Governor Lopez and grandmother of former Vice Governor Edgardo E. Lopez. The rooms were made of round timbers and surilap.
.A scanned photograph of the first batch of students to enroll in DELNHS, gathering outside their temporary classrooms made of surilap for a flag ceremony
On December 21 of the same year, the ownership of the school site, with the Title No. 13477, had been ceded to DECS through the help of the then Mayor Edgardo Lopez. The land has a total area of 15, 275 square meters and is located at Pagsilaan, Don Enrique Lopez, approximately two hundred fifty meters from the barangay’s elementary school.
With the sustaining support of the then District II Rep. Almario, DELNHS was able to set up physical facilities for the school. In 1992, two permanent classrooms were constructed thru the Countryside Development Fund (CDF). Another three-classroom and two-classroom buildings were added in 1996.
With the sustaining support of the then District II Rep. Almario, DELNHS was able to set up physical facilities for the school. In 1992, two permanent classrooms were constructed thru the Countryside Development Fund (CDF). Another three-classroom and two-classroom buildings were added in 1996.
Building Type: PMS
Fund Source: House of Representative
Specific Fund: Countryside Development Fund
Number of Rooms: 2 rooms
Year Completed 1992
Classification: Permanent
Dimension: 7m x 16m
Building Type: PMS
Fund Source: House of Representative
Specific Fund: Countryside Development Fund
Number of Rooms: 3 rooms
Year Completed 1996
Classification: Permanent
Dimension: 7m x 24 m
Building Type: PMS
Fund Source: House of Representative
Specific Fund: Countryside Development Fund
Number of Rooms: 2 rooms
Year Completed 1996
Classification: Permanent
Dimension: 7m x 16 m
Additional facilities were added in 1998 when a two-classroom building and one science laboratory room were simultaneously inaugurated through a joint effort between the then Representative Joel Mayo Z. Almario and then Governor Rosalind Y. Lopez.
Building Type: PMS
Fund Source: House of Representative
Specific Fund: Countryside Development Fund
Number of Rooms: 2 rooms
Year Completed 1998
Classification: Permanent
Dimension: 7m x 16m
Building Type: PMS
Fund Source: House of Representative
Specific Fund: Countryside Development Fund
Number of Rooms: 1 room
Year Completed 1996
Classification: Permanent
Dimension: 7m x 24 m
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