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             The year 2016 opens the doors of SMCM for greater heights in terms of its academic innovations, Excelandia IT Services. It is a classroom test-item analysis of teacher-made tests (Bondoc, 2017). This program innovates the usual test-item analysis and interpretation of students’ test results as well as item banking of best test-item constructed.  With this regard, SMCM commits to determine students’ strengths and weaknesses in English, Science and Mathematics by giving them diagnostic test as the baseline or starting point. This baseline is the teachers’ reference of the students’ current competency level. Moreover, the diagnostic test serves as the students’ needs assessment, identifying the skills they need to further learn and improve and be given an intervention. A report is prepared showing the target for intervention (Bondoc, 2017), manifesting the percentage of what the students already know and what they need to progress.

          School, an institution where we learn things, a place where we appreciate forms of interaction in academics to interaction with the people around us. Going to college and deciding what course should you take is not an easy thing as it seems, there are many things and factors to consider like the quality of education, the facilities and infrastructures it has, the way of teaching and the legacy that the institution will leave to its future alumni.

          St. Mary’s College of Meycauayan, formerly called Escuela Catolica de Meycauayan and St. Mary's Academy of Meycauayan , was founded in 1916 as a Parochial School offering the primary course with Catechism as its core subject. It was and is still managed and administered by the Religious of the Virgin Mary (RVM), the first Filipino Congregation founded in 1684 by a Filipina, Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo. During the Second World War, classes were temporarily suspended in June 1944 and were reopened in July 1945 with the Intermediate and First Year High School classes. March 1949 marked the graduation of the first ten High School seniors of the then St. Mary’s Academy.School Year 1962–1963 was a significant year for the school as she received an award of 25 Spanish dictionaries from the Spanish Embassy in Manila for having topped all other schools in Spanish in the National Government Examinations administered in March 1962. One dictionary was given to Rogelio Decilio, the student who scored 96% in the same examination. As the school population increased, the need for physical expansion arose. In August 1962, negotiations between the school and Mr. & Mrs. Vicente Floro paved the way for the purchase of the lot on which St. Mary’s College of Meycauayan now stands. Construction of the first two rooms began in May of the same year. A six-room annex was completed and came to use in 1966. A four-storey building was erected in 1968 and an extension of four rooms was made in 1978. In 1990, the school launched and intensified the program on adopting an area where less privileged people live. The needs of these people were ascertained when a survey was conducted. In 1993, the adopted area of the school was given a full-time social worker who at the same time managed the Mother Ignacia Social Concern Center (MISCC) of the school. Several programs were organized, namely: Income Generating Projects, Day Care, Emergency Assistance, Disaster Preparedness, Spiritual Uplift, Health and Sanitation. These programs were wholeheartedly supported by the administrators, teachers, students, and parents through donations in kind and monthly pledges. SMCM takes its role in the delivery of a national educational program. Thus, restructuring its curriculum utilizing the standardized skills and competencies for gradual students’ lifelong skills was considered.

With a decongested 12-year program adopted along with the guidelines and orders of the Department of Education, SMCM gives the Marians ample time to master the skills and basic competencies. Furthermore, this will cater to the needs of the students to be prepared in the academe as early as five years old for kindergarten, a prerequisite for Grade 1, and graduate at eighteen years old as Grade 12 Senior High School students, who are either ready for college pursuance or employment.