# Quezon City Classroom Shortage: Districts and Schools

Quezon City lacked 5,507 classrooms in 2023, the most of any city. Its SBP 2026 list of 398 covers 7.2%, and half its schools hold classes in shifts.

This is the Markdown copy of [Quezon City Classroom Shortage: Districts and Schools](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-quezon-city), an article on the NASH Reviewer Blog by Mark Anthony Llego, published Oct 28, 2026, updated Nov 4, 2026. Topics: DepEd data, School resources. NASH Reviewer is an independent practice platform not affiliated with DepEd, BHROD, or NEAP.

Quezon City lacked 5,507 classrooms in 2023, according to DepEd's classroom shortage data as published in the EDCOM II classroom construction dashboard. That is the largest shortage of any city or municipality in the Philippines, the second largest of any schools division after Rizal, and 3.3% of the country's shortage of 165,443 classrooms. Measured against learners, the city is short 13.1 classrooms for every 1,000 learners enrolled in SY 2024-25, 1.8 times the national rate of 7.4. Half its public schools, 81 of 159 (50.9%), held classes in two or more shifts in SY 2024-25.

The School Building Program (SBP) 2026 lists 398 classrooms for the city, 7.2% of its shortage, against 19.6% nationally. Inside the city the gap is uneven. The 2nd District, as DepEd's 2023 data label it, holds 2,417 classrooms of the shortage (43.9%) and receives 68 SBP classrooms. Batasan Hills National HS, short 319 classrooms, has the largest shortage of any school in the country and 20 classrooms on the list; of the city's 15 schools with the largest shortages, it is the only one listed. Across all schools with a shortage, the listed and the unlisted have nearly the same median shortage, 30.5 and 30.1 classrooms: the data show no clear sign that the list favors the city's schools with larger shortages.

[Classroom Shortage in NCR, 2023–2026: Shifts and Crowding](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-ncr) sets Quezon City among Metro Manila's 16 divisions. The figures below, from the cleaned school-level data behind the dashboard, cover the Quezon City schools division school by school and district by district. Every file is listed on the [EDCOM II classroom data page](https://nash.com.ph/edcom-classroom-data).

## Key findings

- Quezon City lacked 5,507 classrooms in 2023, the most of any city or municipality, and is short 13.1 classrooms per 1,000 learners, against 12.2 in NCR and 7.4 nationally.
- The 2nd District holds 2,417 classrooms of the city's shortage (43.9%) and its highest rate, 18.8 per 1,000 learners, the third highest of any congressional district in the country with 20,000 learners or more.
- Batasan Hills National HS, short 319 classrooms for 15,209 learners, has the largest shortage of any school in the country and 20 SBP 2026 classrooms; it is the only one of the city's 15 largest shortages on the list.
- The SBP 2026 list holds 398 classrooms for the city: 222 PSIP III classrooms still for bidding and 176 funded under the GAA 2026 with PHP 0.69 billion.
- Coverage runs from 2.6% of the shortage in the 5th District and 2.8% in the 2nd to 30.6% in the 4th.
- 18 of the 117 schools with a shortage (15.4%) receive any SBP classroom, and their median shortage, 30.5, is close to the 30.1 of schools left off (Mann–Whitney p = 0.667).
- 81 of 159 schools (50.9%) held classes in two or more shifts in SY 2024-25, and 70 schools have more than 50 learners per classroom.

## Quezon City against NCR and the country

The table sets the city's main indicators beside NCR's and the country's, with the same definition in each column. The NCR and national figures are from the [NCR report](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-ncr). Quezon City's schools division covers the whole city, so the division's figures are also the city's.

| Indicator                                               | Quezon City |    NCR | Philippines |
|:--------------------------------------------------------|------------:|-------:|------------:|
| Schools in the 2023 shortage data                       |         158 |    827 |      47,659 |
| Schools with a classroom shortage                       |       74.1% |  80.4% |       54.2% |
| Classroom shortage (2023)                               |       5,507 | 24,866 |     165,443 |
| Shortage per 1,000 learners                             |        13.1 |   12.2 |         7.4 |
| Median shortage of a school with a shortage             |        30.1 |   26.0 |         3.0 |
| SBP 2026 classrooms                                     |         398 |  4,584 |      32,419 |
| SBP 2026 classrooms as a share of the shortage          |        7.2% |  18.4% |       19.6% |
| Schools with a shortage that get any SBP 2026 classroom |       15.4% |  23.0% |       13.3% |
| Schools with two or more shifts (SY 2024-25)            |       50.9% |  62.2% |        4.3% |
| Median learners per classroom, elementary               |        48.9 |   51.5 |        24.9 |
| Median learners per classroom, junior high              |        50.2 |   52.8 |        32.1 |
| Schools using makeshift rooms (2023)                    |       23.4% |  11.5% |       29.0% |

By count, Quezon City ranks 2nd of the country's 229 schools divisions, behind Rizal, and first of all cities and municipalities in [the 20 cities and municipalities with the largest classroom shortages](https://nash.com.ph/blog/cities-municipalities-largest-classroom-shortage). By rate it ranks 26th of the 209 divisions with 20,000 learners or more, because its shortage is shared among 420,619 learners. Three features stand out against the region and the country.

First, the shortage at each school is large. The median school with a shortage lacks 30.1 classrooms, against 26.0 in NCR and 3.0 nationally, and 87 of the city's schools are short by 10 or more. Second, it is spread over many schools rather than piled in a few. The 16 schools with the largest shortages, the top 10% of the city's schools, hold 44.0% of it, more than in NCR (38.9%) but far less than the 66.0% nationally, and it takes 20 schools (12.7%) to reach half. Third, the 2026 list is small beside it: 7.2% of the shortage, against 18.4% in NCR.

Kindergarten to Grade 10 accounts for 5,250 classrooms of the shortage and senior high school for 257 (4.7%). At the same time, 33 schools report more Kindergarten to Grade 10 classrooms than they need, 318 in all; one school's extra rooms do not reduce another school's shortage. The city has no Last Mile Schools.

## Classroom shortage by congressional district in Quezon City

DepEd's 2023 shortage table places every Quezon City school in one of six congressional districts. The labels are DepEd's; they divide the city into parts and say nothing about any representative, and the data show where the shortage and the 2026 classrooms are, not why. [Classroom Shortage by Congressional District, 2023–2026](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-by-congressional-district) sets these six beside the country's 259 districts.

![Paired horizontal bars of the 2023 classroom shortage and SBP 2026 classrooms in Quezon City's six congressional districts. The 2nd District has 2,417 classrooms of shortage and 68 on the list, the 5th 1,359 and 36, the 6th 618 and 32, the 1st 455 and 110, the 4th 393 and 120, and the 3rd 266 and 32.](https://nash.com.ph/blog/_astro/classroom-shortage-quezon-city-by-district.CJgFfxRR_2q9qgm.webp)

*Figure 1. 2023 classroom shortage and SBP 2026 classrooms by congressional district, Quezon City. Chart: © 2026 Mark Anthony Llego, NASH Reviewer. [Download the full-resolution chart (PNG)](https://nash.com.ph/blog/charts/deped-data/classroom-shortage-quezon-city-by-district.png).*

The 2nd District's blue bar dwarfs the others, and the two districts with the largest shortages have the shortest orange bars relative to them. The 2nd District is short 2,417 classrooms and receives 68, 2.8% of its shortage; the 5th is short 1,359 and receives 36, 2.6%. The 4th and 1st Districts, with much smaller shortages, receive the most: 120 and 110 classrooms, 30.6% and 24.2% of their shortages. Every district receives some SBP classrooms, and none receives more than its shortage.

| Congressional district    |   Schools |   Learners (SY 2024-25) |   Classroom shortage (2023) |   Shortage per 1,000 learners |   Schools with a shortage |   Schools on shifts |   SBP 2026 classrooms |   Coverage |
|:--------------------------|----------:|------------------------:|----------------------------:|------------------------------:|--------------------------:|--------------------:|----------------------:|-----------:|
| Quezon City, 2nd District |        20 |                 128,437 |                       2,417 |                          18.8 |                     95.0% |                  19 |                    68 |       2.8% |
| Quezon City, 5th District |        29 |                  97,830 |                       1,359 |                          13.9 |                     93.1% |                  23 |                    36 |       2.6% |
| Quezon City, 6th District |        21 |                  55,526 |                         618 |                          11.1 |                     85.7% |                  13 |                    32 |       5.2% |
| Quezon City, 1st District |        36 |                  56,578 |                         455 |                           8.0 |                     61.1% |                  15 |                   110 |      24.2% |
| Quezon City, 4th District |        27 |                  47,700 |                         393 |                           8.2 |                     70.4% |                   7 |                   120 |      30.6% |
| Quezon City, 3rd District |        25 |                  34,548 |                         266 |                           7.7 |                     48.0% |                   4 |                    32 |      12.0% |

The 2nd District enrolls 128,437 learners in only 20 schools; 19 of them hold classes in shifts and 95.0% have a shortage. Its rate, 18.8 classrooms per 1,000 learners, is the third highest of the 237 congressional districts in the country with 20,000 learners or more, after the lone districts of Tawi-Tawi and Dinagat Islands, and its shortage of 2,417 is the sixth largest of any district. The 5th District follows at 13.9, with 23 of its 29 schools on shifts. The 3rd District, at 7.7, is close to the national rate, and fewer than half its schools (48.0%) have a shortage.

All 68 of the 2nd District's SBP classrooms are at three high schools: Commonwealth HS (28), Batasan Hills National HS (20) and Bagong Silangan HS (20). None of its elementary schools is on the list, although they include the city's second and third largest shortages, Commonwealth ES (208) and Bagong Silangan Elementary School (193).

## Schools with the largest classroom shortages in Quezon City

The 15 schools with the largest shortages are each short 102 classrooms or more, all 15 hold classes in shifts, and 11 of them are in the 2nd District, three in the 5th and one in the 6th. Together they lack 2,323 classrooms, 42.2% of the city's shortage. Each can be looked up by its school ID in the school table.

|   School ID | School                                  | Congressional district    | Barangay            |   Learners (SY 2024-25) |   Learners per classroom |   Classroom shortage (2023) |   SBP 2026 classrooms | Two or more shifts   |
|------------:|:----------------------------------------|:--------------------------|:--------------------|------------------------:|-------------------------:|----------------------------:|----------------------:|:---------------------|
|      305330 | Batasan Hills National HS               | Quezon City, 2nd District | Batasan Hills       |                  15,209 |                    118.8 |                         319 |                    20 | Yes                  |
|      136541 | Commonwealth ES                         | Quezon City, 2nd District | Commonwealth        |                   6,899 |                     66.3 |                         208 |                     0 | Yes                  |
|      136539 | Bagong Silangan Elementary School       | Quezon City, 2nd District | Bagong Silangan     |                   9,076 |                    127.8 |                         193 |                     0 | Yes                  |
|      305337 | Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma High School | Quezon City, 2nd District | Payatas             |                   8,852 |                    116.5 |                         170 |                     0 | Yes                  |
|      136540 | Pres. Corazon C. Aquino E/S             | Quezon City, 2nd District | Batasan Hills       |                   8,284 |                    113.5 |                         170 |                     0 | Yes                  |
|      136544 | Holy Spirit ES                          | Quezon City, 2nd District | Holy Spirit         |                   7,575 |                    105.2 |                         160 |                     0 | Yes                  |
|      136551 | San Diego Elementary School             | Quezon City, 2nd District | Batasan Hills       |                   7,320 |                     98.9 |                         150 |                     0 | Yes                  |
|      305341 | San Bartolome HS                        | Quezon City, 5th District | San Bartolome       |                   6,984 |                     97.0 |                         148 |                     0 | Yes                  |
|      136547 | Melencio M. Castelo ES                  | Quezon City, 2nd District | Payatas             |                   6,286 |                    108.4 |                         125 |                     0 | Yes                  |
|      136542 | Dona Juana ES                           | Quezon City, 2nd District | Holy Spirit         |                   5,989 |                     88.1 |                         123 |                     0 | Yes                  |
|      136514 | Pasong Tamo ES                          | Quezon City, 6th District | Pasong Tamo         |                   6,603 |                    101.6 |                         120 |                     0 | Yes                  |
|      136546 | Manuel L. Quezon ES                     | Quezon City, 2nd District | Commonwealth        |                   7,692 |                     82.7 |                         113 |                     0 | Yes                  |
|      136528 | Rosa L. Susano - Novaliches ES          | Quezon City, 5th District | Gulod               |                   7,641 |                     68.8 |                         113 |                     0 | Yes                  |
|      136535 | Maligaya ES                             | Quezon City, 5th District | Pasong Putik Proper |                   5,998 |                     96.7 |                         109 |                     0 | Yes                  |
|      136545 | Lupang Pangako ES                       | Quezon City, 2nd District | Payatas             |                   5,052 |                    174.2 |                         102 |                     0 | Yes                  |

Batasan Hills National HS is short 319 classrooms for 15,209 learners, 118.8 learners per classroom: the largest shortage of any public school in the Philippines, as [Philippine Classroom Shortage 2023: Where the Gap Is](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-philippines-2023) reports. It is the only one of the 15 on the SBP 2026 list, with 20 classrooms on a line the city government implements. The next three, Commonwealth ES (208), Bagong Silangan Elementary School (193) and Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma High School (170), have none.

The 15 cluster in a few neighborhoods. Six are in two barangays as the school table gives them, three in Batasan Hills and three in Payatas, and four more are in Commonwealth and Holy Spirit. Crowding at several is extreme: Lupang Pangako ES has 174.2 learners per classroom, Bagong Silangan Elementary School 127.8. Learners per classroom count all of a school's SY 2024-25 learners against its 2023 rooms, so in a school on shifts they describe the load over the day, not the size of one class.

Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma High School shares its shortage of 170 with Pres. Corazon C. Aquino E/S, and Manuel L. Quezon ES its 113 with Rosa L. Susano - Novaliches ES; ties are broken by enrollment.

## Where Quezon City's SBP 2026 classrooms go

The SBP 2026 list has 23 lines for Quezon City: 398 classrooms at 21 schools, 1.2% of the national list against the city's 3.3% of the national shortage. Next door, the City of Manila, with a smaller shortage of 2,773, receives 1,890, most of them PSIP III ([Manila Classroom Shortage: Districts, Schools and PSIP III](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-manila)).

| Implementation modality   |   Lines |   Schools |   Classrooms |   Share of the place's SBP classrooms | Budget           |
|:--------------------------|--------:|----------:|-------------:|--------------------------------------:|:-----------------|
| PSIP III                  |      13 |        11 |          222 |                                 55.8% | For bidding      |
| LGU - CITY                |       5 |         5 |           96 |                                 24.1% | PHP 0.41 billion |
| DPWH                      |       5 |         5 |           80 |                                 20.1% | PHP 0.28 billion |

PSIP III, the third Public-Private Partnership for School Infrastructure Project, carries 222 classrooms (55.8%) on 13 lines at 11 schools. It is still for bidding, with construction expected from March 2027 to July 2028, so these lines have no budget yet. The other 176 classrooms are funded under the General Appropriations Act (GAA) 2026 with PHP 0.69 billion: 96 on lines the city government implements and 80 on lines of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). [DepEd School Building Program 2026 in Numbers](https://nash.com.ph/blog/deped-school-building-program-2026) explains the modalities, and [How Much Does a Classroom Cost in the Philippines?](https://nash.com.ph/blog/cost-to-build-classroom-philippines) puts the budgets in context.

The 10 schools with the most SBP classrooms are below, each beside its own 2023 shortage.

| School                                | Congressional district    |   Classroom shortage (2023) |   SBP 2026 classrooms | Modality   |
|:--------------------------------------|:--------------------------|----------------------------:|----------------------:|:-----------|
| Project 6 ES                          | Quezon City, 1st District |                          16 |                    32 | DPWH       |
| General Roxas Elementary School       | Quezon City, 4th District |                          35 |                    32 | PSIP III   |
| Pinyahan ES                           | Quezon City, 4th District |                          24 |                    32 | PSIP III   |
| Commonwealth HS                       | Quezon City, 2nd District |                          94 |                    28 | LGU - CITY |
| Toro Hills ES                         | Quezon City, 1st District |                          67 |                    24 | PSIP III   |
| Diosdado P. Macapagal ES (Tatalon ES) | Quezon City, 4th District |                          68 |                    24 | PSIP III   |
| Betty Go Belmonte ES                  | Quezon City, 4th District |                          31 |                    24 | PSIP III   |
| Batasan Hills National HS             | Quezon City, 2nd District |                         319 |                    20 | LGU - CITY |
| Bagong Silangan HS                    | Quezon City, 2nd District |                          75 |                    20 | PSIP III   |
| GSIS Village Elementary               | Quezon City, 6th District |                          11 |                    20 | DPWH       |

Four of the 10 are in the 4th District, three in the 2nd, two in the 1st and one in the 6th. Three receive more classrooms than their 2023 shortage: Project 6 ES (32 against 16), Pinyahan ES (32 against 24) and GSIS Village Elementary (20 against 11). At the other end, Batasan Hills National HS receives 20 against 319 and Commonwealth HS 28 against 94.

General Roxas Elementary School's 32 classrooms are two identical PSIP III lines of 16. The masterlist has no project ID, so a second identical building cannot be told from a double entry, and the copy is kept in the totals; without it, the city's list is 382 classrooms.

School by school, 303 of the 398 classrooms (76.1%) fall within the receiving school's own 2023 shortage, more than in NCR (60.9%) or the country (53.0%). Another 63 go beyond the receiving school's shortage, and 32 (8.0%) go to three schools that reported no 2023 shortage. Few classrooms go past a school's own need, but the list is small beside the need: counted this way, it meets 5.5% of the city's shortage and leaves 5,204 classrooms unmet. [Do 2026 Classrooms Go Where the Shortage Is?](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-allocation-vs-shortage-2026) explains why a classroom beyond one school's shortage meets no other school's need.

![Map of Quezon City's public schools, each a dot sized by its 2023 classroom shortage. Large blue dots, schools with big shortages and no SBP 2026 classroom, crowd the east and northeast of the city; orange dots, schools on the list, are scattered, with more in the south and west, and the largest orange dot is Batasan Hills National HS.](https://nash.com.ph/blog/_astro/classroom-shortage-quezon-city-map.BPiYYwK2_9XPcT.webp)

*Figure 2. Every public school in Quezon City with usable coordinates, sized by its 2023 classroom shortage: on the SBP 2026 list, with a shortage and not on the list, or with neither. Chart: © 2026 Mark Anthony Llego, NASH Reviewer. [Download the full-resolution chart (PNG)](https://nash.com.ph/blog/charts/deped-data/classroom-shortage-quezon-city-map.png).*

The map places 148 of the city's 159 schools. The biggest blue dots, schools with large shortages and no SBP classroom, sit in the east and northeast of the city, where the 2nd District's schools are; orange dots, the listed schools, are scattered across the city, with more in the south and west, where the 1st and 4th Districts' listed schools are. Gray dots, schools with no shortage and no line, are mostly in the south. The dots sit at the 2022 coordinates of DepEd's National School Building Inventory, which can be imprecise: a few fall at or just beyond the city's edge, and schools with no coordinates, or with coordinates more than 10 km from their barangay, are left off.

## Does the 2026 list favor Quezon City's largest shortages?

In a city this short of classrooms, a natural question is whether the listed schools are those with the most need. Two checks answer it, both within the city.

The first sorts the city's 158 schools in the 2023 shortage table into four bands by shortage and gives the share in each band with any SBP 2026 classroom.

| 2023 classroom shortage   |   Schools |   Schools with SBP 2026 classrooms | Share (95% interval)   |
|:--------------------------|----------:|-----------------------------------:|:-----------------------|
| None                      |        41 |                                  3 | 7.3% (2.5% to 19.4%)   |
| 1 to 5                    |        21 |                                  2 | 9.5% (2.7% to 28.9%)   |
| Over 5 to 20              |        27 |                                  5 | 18.5% (8.2% to 36.7%)  |
| Over 20                   |        69 |                                 11 | 15.9% (9.1% to 26.3%)  |

The share rises from 7.3% of schools with no shortage to 18.5% of those short over 5 to 20 classrooms, then dips to 15.9% of those short more than 20, where 11 of 69 schools are listed. Each share comes with a 95% interval: the range of shares that fit the data, given how few schools are in each band. Here the intervals are wide and overlap. Two of 21 schools short 1 to 5 classrooms gives 9.5%, but anything from 2.7% to 28.9% fits. Because these are all the city's schools, not a sample, read an interval as a measure of how firmly a share rests on so few schools, not as survey error. They are Wilson score intervals (Wilson, 1927), which stay accurate for small groups and for shares near zero.

The second check sets the 18 listed schools with a shortage beside the 99 unlisted ones. The median listed school is short 30.5 classrooms, the median unlisted school 30.1. The Mann–Whitney test (Mann & Whitney, 1947) compares the two groups across every school, not only the middle one: it ranks all 117 schools by shortage and asks whether the listed schools sit higher in that ranking than chance alone would put them. Its effect size, the rank-biserial correlation (Kerby, 2014), pairs every listed school with every unlisted one and takes the share of pairs in which the listed school has the larger shortage, minus the share in which it has the smaller. It runs from 1, every listed school short more than every unlisted one, through 0, no tilt either way, to −1, the reverse.

In Quezon City the rank-biserial correlation is 0.06, close to zero. The p-value, 0.667, is the chance of a gap at least this large if being listed had nothing to do with a school's shortage; at that level, the gap is what chance alone would usually give. In plain words, the schools on the list are, as a group, no more short of classrooms than the schools left off: the data show no clear sign that the list favors the city's schools with larger shortages. The 15 largest shortages make the same point, with one of them listed.

This compares where classrooms are listed, not why. Need can change through enrollment and building condition, and planners may weigh buildable land, site readiness and other funding, none of which are in these data.

## Class shifts, crowding and school buildings in Quezon City

In SY 2024-25, 81 of the city's 159 schools in the enrollment data (50.9%) held classes in two or more shifts, against 62.2% in NCR and 4.3% nationally, and they enroll 75.2% of the city's learners. Quezon City alone holds 81 of the 2,041 schools on shifts in the country. Shifts follow the shortage across the districts: 19 of the 2nd District's 20 schools run them, against 4 of the 3rd District's 25.

The median school has 48.9 learners per classroom in elementary, 50.2 in junior high and 31.9 in senior high, against 51.5, 52.8 and 40.4 in NCR and 24.9, 32.1 and 30.6 nationally. 70 schools have more than 50 learners per classroom, with 68.2% of the learners counted, and bringing each down to 50 would take at least 2,279 classrooms. [Class Shifts and Crowded Classrooms in DepEd Schools](https://nash.com.ph/blog/class-shifting-crowded-classrooms) explains the measure. Nationally, EDCOM II estimated in October 2026 that 52,871 classrooms are needed to end double and triple shifting in 1,889 schools (EDCOM II, 2026, October 20).

The 2023 facilities data add a sign of strain that is less common elsewhere in Metro Manila: 37 of the city's schools (23.4%) use makeshift rooms, against 11.5% across NCR. Another 26 schools report a building for condemnation or demolition, 47 buildings in all.

## What this means for school heads in Quezon City

In Quezon City the shortage shows up as shifts and full rooms, and it differs sharply from one district to the next, so read your own school and district before the city average.

- **Find your school in the data.** Look up your school ID in the school table: `shortage_total` gives your 2023 shortage, `sbp_classrooms` your SBP 2026 classrooms, `multi_shift` and `learners_per_classroom_all` your shifts and crowding, and `congressional_district` your district. The [EDCOM II classroom data page](https://nash.com.ph/edcom-classroom-data) links every file.
- **Lead with shifts and learners per classroom.** With half the city's schools on shifts, a school's shift count and learners per classroom describe its situation better than a shortage figure alone. Cite both with their years and sources in the [school improvement plan](https://nash.com.ph/blog/deped-school-improvement-plan), and track any SBP line in the annual implementation plan.
- **Know which kind of line your school has.** A city or DPWH line has a GAA 2026 budget; a PSIP III line, as at 11 of the city's schools, is still for bidding, with construction expected from March 2027 to July 2028. Plan the school's rooms and shifts on that timeline.
- **Bring the district picture to the division and the city.** Coverage is 2.6% in the 5th District and 2.8% in the 2nd, against 30.6% in the 4th, so a school's case depends on where it is. The city government implements 96 of the city's 2026 classrooms, which makes the local school board a natural partner.
- **Check the record before you cite it.** If a line appears twice, as one does in the city, ask the division whether it is one building or two; if your school's figures look wrong, raise them with the division before the data are used for planning.

## How these numbers were made

The data are the cleaned tables behind the EDCOM II classroom construction dashboard: DepEd's 2023 classroom shortage by school, the SBP 2026 masterlist, SY 2024-25 enrollment and class shifts from the Basic Education Information System (BEIS), 2023 school facilities, and school coordinates from the National School Building Inventory (NSBI) for SY 2022-23. [How the EDCOM Classroom Data Was Cleaned](https://nash.com.ph/blog/edcom-classroom-data-cleaned) documents every table and cleaning rule.

The place is the Quezon City schools division: 158 schools in the 2023 shortage table, 159 in all. Its parts are the congressional districts as DepEd's 2023 shortage table labels them; labels that differ only in capitalization are merged, as in the [congressional district ranking](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-by-congressional-district), and every school in the table carries one of six labels.

A school's shortage is DepEd's 2023 figure for Kindergarten to Grade 10 plus senior high school, counted only where the school lacks classrooms. The shortage per 1,000 learners divides the shortage of schools with SY 2024-25 learners by those learners and multiplies by 1,000. Divisions are ranked by shortage among all 229, and by rate among the 209 with 20,000 learners or more. Coverage is SBP 2026 classrooms divided by the 2023 shortage. Classrooms within a school's shortage are counted up to the size of that shortage; any beyond it are counted as beyond. Learners per classroom divide SY 2024-25 learners by 2023 instructional classrooms; for a school above 50, the classrooms needed are its learners divided by 50, rounded up, minus the classrooms it has.

- **Wilson intervals.** For k listed schools out of n, the interval holds every share p for which k/n lies within about two standard errors of p, with the standard error computed from p itself; this keeps it inside 0% to 100% and accurate for small n (Wilson, 1927).
- **Mann–Whitney test.** Among schools with a 2023 shortage, the shortages of listed and unlisted schools are compared with a two-sided Mann–Whitney U test (Mann & Whitney, 1947). The rank-biserial correlation is 2U/(n₁n₂) − 1, where U counts the listed–unlisted pairs in which the listed school has the larger shortage, ties counting half (Kerby, 2014).
- **Map.** Each school is drawn at its 2022 coordinates; schools with no coordinates, with coordinates outside the map's frame, or flagged as more than 10 km from their barangay's center are left off.

The analysis was done in Python with pandas and SciPy, and the charts and map drawn with Matplotlib and geopandas.

## Limits

The sources span several years: the shortage and facilities are from 2023, enrollment and shifts from SY 2024-25, coordinates from 2022, and the allocations from 2026, so a school's figures may have changed since. The SBP list shows planned classrooms, not finished ones, and 222 of the city's are PSIP III classrooms still for bidding. The shortage is DepEd's own estimate, and new, merged or renumbered schools may be missing or counted under a new ID.

District labels follow DepEd's 2023 data; districts created or redrawn since may differ. Learners per classroom count all of a school's learners against its rooms, so in a school on shifts they describe the load over the day. With 117 schools with a shortage, of which 18 are listed, the Mann–Whitney test can miss a modest tilt, and the band shares rest on few schools. The map's coordinates can be imprecise. These are descriptive figures: they show where the shortage and the 2026 classrooms are, not why.

## Frequently asked questions

### How big is the classroom shortage in Quezon City?

DepEd's 2023 data put the shortage in the Quezon City schools division at 5,507 classrooms, the largest of any city or municipality in the country and 3.3% of the national shortage of 165,443. That is 13.1 classrooms per 1,000 learners, against 7.4 nationally, and 74.1% of the city's public schools have a shortage.

### Which school has the biggest classroom shortage in the Philippines?

Batasan Hills National HS in Quezon City's 2nd District, short 319 classrooms in 2023, with 15,209 learners in SY 2024-25. It holds classes in shifts and has 20 classrooms on the SBP 2026 list, on a line the city government implements.

### Which Quezon City district has the biggest classroom shortage?

The 2nd District, short 2,417 classrooms, 43.9% of the city's shortage, at 18.8 classrooms per 1,000 learners. It receives 68 SBP 2026 classrooms, 2.8% of its shortage. The 5th District follows, short 1,359.

### How many SBP 2026 classrooms will Quezon City get?

The SBP 2026 masterlist has 398 classrooms for Quezon City on 23 lines at 21 schools, 7.2% of the city's 2023 shortage: 222 PSIP III classrooms still for bidding and 176 funded under the GAA 2026 with PHP 0.69 billion. The list is a plan; it does not mean the classrooms are built.

## Download the data and cite this post

The cleaned EDCOM II classroom data behind this series are free to download for personal study; to reuse them, email [support@nash.com.ph](mailto:support@nash.com.ph) for written permission first. [How the EDCOM Classroom Data Was Cleaned](https://nash.com.ph/blog/edcom-classroom-data-cleaned) explains every table and cleaning rule. The files are at data.nash.com.ph: start with the [README](https://data.nash.com.ph/edcom-classroom-data/v1.1/README.md), then the [school table](https://data.nash.com.ph/edcom-classroom-data/v1.1/schools.parquet) (Parquet, or [CSV](https://data.nash.com.ph/edcom-classroom-data/v1.1/schools.csv.gz)), the [School Building Program lines](https://data.nash.com.ph/edcom-classroom-data/v1.1/sbp_projects.csv.gz) (CSV), the [city and municipality table](https://data.nash.com.ph/edcom-classroom-data/v1.1/lgu_summary.csv.gz) (CSV), and every table for [Stata](https://data.nash.com.ph/edcom-classroom-data/v1.1/classroom_tables_stata.zip) and [SPSS](https://data.nash.com.ph/edcom-classroom-data/v1.1/classroom_tables_spss.zip). Every figure on Quezon City in this post can be computed from the school table, filtered to the Quezon City division by `division` and split by `congressional_district`, with the SBP lines file, matched on `school_id`, for the modalities.

Every file, with its rows, columns and checksum, is listed on the [EDCOM II classroom data page](https://nash.com.ph/edcom-classroom-data). To cite the data: Llego, M. A. (2026). *EDCOM II classroom construction dashboard data, cleaned, version 1.1*. NASH Reviewer. https://nash.com.ph/edcom-classroom-data

To cite this post: Llego, M. A. (2026, October 28). *Quezon City classroom shortage: Districts and schools*. NASH Reviewer Blog. https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-quezon-city

## References

- Kerby, D. S. (2014). The simple difference formula: An approach to teaching nonparametric correlation. *Comprehensive Psychology, 3*.
- Llego, M. A. (2026). *EDCOM II classroom construction dashboard data, cleaned, version 1.1* [Data set]. NASH Reviewer. https://nash.com.ph/edcom-classroom-data
- Mann, H. B., & Whitney, D. R. (1947). On a test of whether one of two random variables is stochastically larger than the other. *Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 18*(1), 50–60.
- Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II). (2026, October 20). *Put classrooms where they're needed most, EDCOM 2 tells DepEd* [News release]. https://edcom2.gov.ph/put-classrooms-where-theyre-needed-most-edcom-2-tells-deped/
- Wilson, E. B. (1927). Probable inference, the law of succession, and statistical inference. *Journal of the American Statistical Association, 22*(158), 209–212.

## More in this series

- [How the EDCOM Classroom Data Was Cleaned](https://nash.com.ph/blog/edcom-classroom-data-cleaned)
- [Philippine Classroom Shortage 2023: Where the Gap Is](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-philippines-2023)
- [DepEd School Building Program 2026 in Numbers](https://nash.com.ph/blog/deped-school-building-program-2026)
- [Do 2026 Classrooms Go Where the Shortage Is?](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-allocation-vs-shortage-2026)
- [Classroom Allocation by LGU Income Class, 2026](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-allocation-lgu-income-class)
- [Class Shifts and Crowded Classrooms in DepEd Schools](https://nash.com.ph/blog/class-shifting-crowded-classrooms)
- [Last Mile Schools: Classroom Need and 2026 Allocation](https://nash.com.ph/blog/last-mile-schools-classroom-shortage)
- Regional reports: [NCR](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-ncr), [CAR](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-car), [Region I](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-region-1-ilocos), [Region II](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-region-2-cagayan-valley), [Region III](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-region-3-central-luzon), [Region IV-A](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-region-4a-calabarzon), [MIMAROPA](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-mimaropa), [Region V](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-region-5-bicol), [Region VI](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-region-6-western-visayas), [NIR](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-negros-island-region), [Region VII](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-region-7-central-visayas), [Region VIII](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-region-8-eastern-visayas), [Region IX](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-region-9-zamboanga-peninsula), [Region X](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-region-10-northern-mindanao), [Region XI](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-region-11-davao), [Region XII](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-region-12-soccsksargen), [Caraga](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-region-13-caraga), [BARMM](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-barmm)
- Rankings and deep dives: [Congressional districts](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-by-congressional-district), [Top 20 cities and municipalities](https://nash.com.ph/blog/cities-municipalities-largest-classroom-shortage), [Rizal](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-rizal), [Quezon City](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-quezon-city), [City of Manila](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-manila), [Tawi-Tawi](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-tawi-tawi), [Cavite](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-cavite), [Cost of a classroom](https://nash.com.ph/blog/cost-to-build-classroom-philippines)
- Explainers: [PSIP III](https://nash.com.ph/blog/psip-iii-classrooms-explained), [Senior high shortage](https://nash.com.ph/blog/senior-high-school-classroom-shortage), [Junior high shortage](https://nash.com.ph/blog/junior-high-school-classroom-shortage), [Excess classrooms](https://nash.com.ph/blog/schools-with-more-classrooms-than-needed), [Learning Continuity Spaces](https://nash.com.ph/blog/learning-continuity-spaces-sbp-2026), [How learners reach school](https://nash.com.ph/blog/how-learners-reach-public-high-schools)
- For teachers and school heads: [Action research and thesis topics](https://nash.com.ph/blog/action-research-topics-classroom-shortage)
- Related: [Manila Classroom Shortage: Districts, Schools and PSIP III](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-manila), [The 20 cities and municipalities with the largest classroom shortages](https://nash.com.ph/blog/cities-municipalities-largest-classroom-shortage), [CRLA Results SY 2025-26 in NCR: Low Shares, Large Schools](https://nash.com.ph/blog/crla-results-sy-2025-2026-ncr), [DepEd Classroom and School Building Data, SY 2023-2024](https://nash.com.ph/blog/deped-classroom-school-building-data-sy-2023-2024), [DepEd School Improvement Plan (SIP): Steps, AIP and SRC](https://nash.com.ph/blog/deped-school-improvement-plan), [How to Read DepEd Data: A Guide for Aspiring School Heads](https://nash.com.ph/blog/how-to-read-deped-data)

*Analysis and charts by Mark Anthony Llego for NASH Reviewer. Data: EDCOM II classroom construction dashboard and Department of Education data. NASH Reviewer is not affiliated with EDCOM II or DepEd. Charts may be reused only with written permission from support@nash.com.ph.*

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