Classroom Shortage in Region X, 2023–2026: Bukidnon

Region X (Northern Mindanao, often searched as Region 10) lacked 10,333 classrooms in 2023, according to DepEd’s classroom shortage data as published in the EDCOM II classroom construction dashboard. That is 6.2% of the country’s shortage of 165,443 classrooms, the sixth largest of the 18 regions. For its size the gap is wide: the region is short 9.1 classrooms for every 1,000 learners enrolled in SY 2024-25, against 7.4 nationally, the fourth highest rate after BARMM, NCR and Region IV-A.

Much of that gap sits in one province. Bukidnon, counted with its two city divisions, Valencia City and Malaybalay City, holds 4,522 classrooms of the shortage, 43.8% of the region’s, and the Bukidnon division has the highest rate of the region’s 14 divisions. Its school buildings also show more wear than the country’s: 47.7% of its schools report a building for condemnation or demolition, against 28.9% nationally. The School Building Program (SBP) 2026 lists 1,082 classrooms for Region X, 10.5% of its shortage against 19.6% nationally, but those it lists land at schools that need them more often than they do in the country as a whole.

The figures below come from the cleaned school-level data behind the dashboard. Every file is listed on the EDCOM II classroom data page.

Key findings

• Region X lacked 10,333 classrooms in 2023, and 1,799 of its 2,521 public schools (71.4%) had a shortage, against 54.2% nationally.
• Bukidnon province, with Valencia City and Malaybalay City, holds 4,522 classrooms of the shortage (43.8%), and seven of the region’s 10 cities and municipalities with the largest shortages are in Bukidnon.
• Division rates run from 12.0 classrooms per 1,000 learners in Bukidnon to 2.3 in Tangub City, and nine of the 14 divisions are above the national rate.
• 1,201 schools (47.7%) report a building for condemnation or demolition, 3,540 buildings in all, against 28.9% of schools nationally.
• The SBP 2026 list holds 1,082 classrooms for the region, 10.5% of its shortage, and 76.0% of them fall within the receiving school’s own 2023 shortage, against 53.0% nationally.
• Five of the 10 schools with the largest shortages are on the SBP 2026 list, and 69 of the 230 schools short by more than 10 classrooms (30.0%) receive at least one.
• Only 64 schools (2.5%) held classes in shifts in SY 2024-25, but the median elementary school has 28.0 learners per classroom, against 24.9 nationally.

Region X against the country

Each row below uses one definition for both columns, so the region and the country can be read side by side.

Three rows set Region X apart. A shortage is far more common among its schools, 71.4% against 54.2%; buildings for condemnation or demolition are reported by 47.7% of its schools, against 28.9%; and its SBP 2026 classrooms equal 10.5% of the shortage, about half the national 19.6%. It has fewer Last Mile Schools and fewer schools on shifts than the country, and fuller elementary classrooms.

Kindergarten to Grade 10 accounts for 9,496 classrooms of the shortage and senior high school for 836 (8.1%). Nationally, urban schools have the higher rate, 8.4 classrooms per 1,000 learners against 6.1 in rural schools. Region X runs the other way: its 1,895 rural schools are short 9.7 classrooms per 1,000 learners and its 622 urban schools 8.6, and the shortage divides almost evenly by count, 50.6% rural and 49.3% urban. Against that, 513 schools have 1,769 Kindergarten to Grade 10 classrooms beyond what they need; a spare room in one school cannot be counted against another school’s gap.

Classroom shortage by division in Region X

Region X has 14 schools divisions: five provincial divisions, Bukidnon, Misamis Oriental, Lanao del Norte, Misamis Occidental and Camiguin, and nine city divisions. Figure 1 ranks them by the shortage per 1,000 learners, which puts a small city division and a large provincial one on the same scale.

Bukidnon fills the top of the chart. The provincial division and the two city divisions inside the province, Valencia City (11.5) and Malaybalay City (10.6), take the first three places, with Lanao del Norte level with Malaybalay City. At the bottom are Misamis Occidental and its three city divisions, Oroquieta City, Ozamis City and Tangub City, all under 5 classrooms per 1,000 learners, with Cagayan de Oro City just above them at 5.3. Nine of the 14 divisions are above the national rate.

Counts tell a similar story. The Bukidnon division alone is short 3,379 classrooms, 32.7% of the region’s shortage and nearly twice the 1,799 of Misamis Oriental, the next largest. Cagayan de Oro City, the regional center, is short 746, but with 140,289 learners its rate is among the lowest in the region.

The share of schools with a shortage runs from 41.4% in Ozamis City to 90.8% in Valencia City, and it is 83.5% or more in all three Bukidnon divisions. Coverage, the division’s SBP 2026 classrooms as a share of its shortage, moves the other way: it is lowest in Malaybalay City, 4.1%, and Bukidnon, 6.4%, and highest in Tangub City, 45.2%, and Ozamis City, 44.9%, where the shortages are smallest. Cagayan de Oro City is the one large division with real coverage, 221 classrooms for 29.6% of its shortage. Every SBP classroom in the region is at a school with a division, so the division totals add up to the regional total.

Provinces and cities: Bukidnon, Misamis Oriental, Lanao del Norte, Misamis Occidental, Camiguin, Cagayan de Oro and Iligan

The Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC) places Region X’s schools in five provinces and two highly urbanized cities that stand apart from them, Cagayan de Oro and Iligan. Component cities are counted inside their province: Valencia and Malaybalay in Bukidnon, Gingoog and El Salvador in Misamis Oriental, and Oroquieta, Ozamis and Tangub in Misamis Occidental.

Bukidnon has the largest shortage, 4,522 classrooms, the highest provincial rate, 11.8, and the lowest coverage, 6.4%. Misamis Occidental is its mirror image: 511 schools but a shortage of 515, a rate of 3.9 and the highest coverage of the seven, 29.9%. Lanao del Norte, the third largest shortage, has a rate of 10.6, close to Bukidnon’s.

Among the region’s 93 cities and municipalities, the City of Cagayan De Oro has the largest shortage, 834 classrooms, and the City of Iligan the second, 638. The other eight in the top 10 are in Bukidnon, except the City of Gingoog in Misamis Oriental:

Coverage in the Bukidnon municipalities is thin: Manolo Fortich is short 314 classrooms and has three on the list, Talakag 238 and four. City and municipal figures use PSGC boundaries and the municipality given in the SBP masterlist, so a city need not match the division that shares its name. The City of Cagayan De Oro shows 834 classrooms of shortage and 224 SBP classrooms, the Cagayan de Oro City division 746 and 221, because Misamis Oriental General Comprehensive High School stands in the city but belongs to the Misamis Oriental division. In all, 25 cities and municipalities with a shortage, 964 classrooms between them, have no SBP 2026 classroom; the largest of these is Claveria, Misamis Oriental, short 97. One receives more classrooms than its shortage, three beyond it.

Schools with the largest classroom shortages in Region X

Seven of the 10 schools with the largest shortages hold classes in shifts, and five are in Bukidnon province. Together they are short 819 classrooms, 7.9% of the region’s shortage. The school ID finds each one in the school table.

Valencia NHS in Valencia City has the largest shortage in the region, 127 classrooms, for 9,359 learners, and Bukidnon National High School in Malaybalay City is close behind at 124. Half of the 10 are on the SBP 2026 list, though each with far fewer classrooms than it lacks: Tagoloan CS and Opol CS with 10 each, Valencia NHS with eight, Valencia City Central School with six and Misamis Oriental General Comprehensive High School with three. Opol CS, with 115.9 learners per classroom, is the most crowded of the 10. Bulua National High School shares 10th place with Maramag Central Elementary School, also short 54; ties are broken by enrollment.

Across all schools, the shortage is less concentrated than the country’s. The 252 schools with the largest shortages, the top 10% of the region’s schools, hold 49.2% of it, against 66.0% nationally, and it takes 261 schools (10.4%) to account for half. The 263 schools short by 10 or more classrooms hold 50.3%, and the median school with a shortage lacks 3.0 classrooms. Philippine Classroom Shortage 2023: Where the Gap Is explains these measures.

SBP 2026 classrooms in Region X

The SBP 2026 list has 240 lines for Region X, 1,082 classrooms at 232 schools, all funded under the General Appropriations Act (GAA) 2026 with PHP 3.51 billion. That is 3.3% of the national list, for a region with 6.2% of the national shortage. Figure 2 sets each division’s 2023 shortage beside its 2026 classrooms.

The orange bars do not follow the blue ones. Bukidnon has 215 classrooms on the list, fewer than Cagayan de Oro City’s 221, for a shortage more than four times as large; Lanao del Norte has 133 for 1,481, and Malaybalay City 23 for 560.

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) builds a larger part of the region’s list than of the country’s: 442 classrooms, 40.9%, against 18.9% of the national list. Local governments implement 565 (52.2%) and DepEd 75 (6.9%). Region X has no PSIP III line, and PSIP III makes up half of the national list. Set against the GAA-funded classrooms alone, which equal 9.7% of the national shortage, Region X’s 10.5% is slightly above that national figure. DepEd School Building Program 2026 in Numbers explains who implements what, and at what cost.

Where the classrooms go is the region’s strongest point. School by school, 822 of them (76.0%) fall within the receiving school’s own 2023 shortage, against 53.0% nationally, and only 123 (11.4%) go to schools with no 2023 shortage, against 23.0% nationally. Of the 1,799 schools with a shortage, 200 (11.1%) receive a classroom, and of the 230 short by more than 10, 69 (30.0%). The list is still small: counted this way it meets 8.0% of the region’s shortage and leaves 9,510 classrooms unmet. Do 2026 Classrooms Go Where the Shortage Is? describes this school-by-school count.

Class shifts and crowded classrooms in Region X

Shifts are uncommon in Region X. In SY 2024-25, 64 of its 2,536 schools in the enrollment data (2.5%) held classes in two or more shifts, none of them in three, against 4.3% nationally. They enroll 133,047 learners, 11.7% of the region’s total. Almost all of them lack rooms: of the 63 in the shortage data, 90.5% had a shortage. Unusually, 27 of the 63 (42.9%) receive SBP 2026 classrooms, well above the 26.2% of shifting schools nationally.

Crowding shows up in elementary schools instead. The median school has 28.0 learners per classroom in elementary, against 24.9 nationally, while junior high (31.7) and senior high (30.7) are close to the national 32.1 and 30.6. At the far end, 348 schools are above 50 learners per classroom; they hold 24.4% of the learners counted, and at least 1,619 more classrooms would bring each of them down to 50. Class Shifts and Crowded Classrooms in DepEd Schools explains how crowding is measured.

The 2023 facilities data point to the condition of the buildings more than to the schedules. 1,201 schools (47.7%) report at least one building for condemnation or demolition, 3,540 buildings in all, against 28.9% of schools nationally, and 873 (34.6%) use makeshift rooms, against 29.0%. EDCOM II raised the same concern for the whole country in a February 2026 news release, EDCOM II: 51,000 classrooms likely to be condemned by 2028.

Last Mile Schools in Region X

Region X has 364 Last Mile Schools, 14.4% of its schools against 18.5% nationally: schools in geographically isolated, disadvantaged and conflict-affected areas and hardship posts. They hold 789 classrooms of shortage, 7.6% of the region’s. A shortage is about as common among them as among the region’s other schools, 73.9% against 70.9%, and both shares are above the national ones for Last Mile Schools and other schools, 61.5% and 52.5%.

Last Mile Schools in the region are slightly more likely to be on the 2026 list than other schools, 10.7% against 8.9%, with 109 classrooms between them. That leaves 237 Last Mile Schools with a shortage, 696 classrooms in all, with nothing on the list. DepEd’s Last Mile School modality, meant for such schools, accounts for 24 lines and 65 classrooms in the region. Last Mile Schools: Classroom Need and 2026 Allocation has the national comparison.

What this means for school heads in Region X

In Region X the shortage is concentrated in Bukidnon, buildings marked for condemnation add to it, and the SBP list, while well aimed, is small. Start with your own division and school.

• Look up your school by its ID. The school table on the EDCOM II classroom data page gives each school’s 2023 shortage, learners per classroom and any SBP 2026 lines.
• In Bukidnon, lead with the rate. A division short 12.0 classrooms per 1,000 learners, with 6.4% of its shortage on the 2026 list, has a case that the raw count alone does not make.
• Record the buildings you cannot use. Nearly half the region’s schools report a building for condemnation or demolition. Note each one, with its condition, in the school improvement plan, since a condemned building can turn into a new shortage.
• Follow up with whoever builds. The DPWH implements 40.9% of the region’s 2026 classrooms and local governments 52.2%, so the district engineering office or the LGU named on your school’s line is the office to ask about progress.
• Track the line until turnover. A line on the SBP 2026 list is a plan, not a building; carry it in the annual implementation plan until the classrooms are in use.

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 documents every table and cleaning rule.

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. Learners per classroom divide SY 2024-25 learners by 2023 instructional classrooms. A division’s coverage is its SBP 2026 classrooms divided by its 2023 shortage. Classrooms within a school’s shortage are counted up to the size of that shortage, and any beyond it are counted as beyond. Regions follow the PSGC: Region X here is Bukidnon, Camiguin, Lanao del Norte, Misamis Occidental and Misamis Oriental with the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, while Lanao del Sur is in BARMM. Divisions are DepEd’s schools divisions.

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

Limits

The sources span several years: the shortage and facilities are from 2023, enrollment and shifts from SY 2024-25, and the allocations from 2026, so a school’s figures may have changed since. The SBP list shows planned classrooms, not finished ones. The shortage is DepEd’s own estimate, and new, merged or renumbered schools may be missing or counted under a new ID. The count of buildings for condemnation or demolition is from 2023, and some may since have been repaired, replaced or torn down. 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 Region X?

Region X was short 10,333 classrooms in DepEd’s 2023 data, 6.2% of the national shortage of 165,443. That is 9.1 classrooms per 1,000 learners, against 7.4 nationally, the fourth highest rate of the 18 regions, and 71.4% of the region’s public schools have a shortage.

Which division in Region X has the biggest classroom shortage?

Bukidnon, the provincial division, both by count and by rate: it is short 3,379 classrooms, 32.7% of the region’s shortage, or 12.0 per 1,000 learners. Valencia City follows by rate, at 11.5, and Misamis Oriental by count, at 1,799.

How many classrooms will Region X get under the SBP 2026?

The SBP 2026 masterlist assigns Region X 1,082 classrooms on 240 lines at 232 schools, all funded under the GAA 2026 with PHP 3.51 billion and none under PSIP III. That is 10.5% of the region’s 2023 shortage, against 19.6% nationally. These are planned classrooms, not finished ones.

How big is the classroom shortage in Bukidnon?

Counted by the PSGC, Bukidnon province, with Valencia City and Malaybalay City, is short 4,522 classrooms, 43.8% of Region X’s shortage, or 11.8 per 1,000 learners. Its 289 SBP 2026 classrooms equal 6.4% of that shortage, the lowest coverage of the region’s provinces and cities.

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 for written permission first. How the EDCOM Classroom Data Was Cleaned explains every table and cleaning rule. The files are at data.nash.com.ph: start with the README, then the school table (Parquet, or CSV), the School Building Program lines (CSV), the city and municipality table (CSV), and every table for Stata and SPSS. Every regional figure in this report can be computed from the school table, filtered to Region X by deped_region.

Every file, with its rows, columns and checksum, is listed on the EDCOM II classroom data page. 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). Classroom shortage in Region X, 2023–2026: Bukidnon. NASH Reviewer Blog. https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-region-10-northern-mindanao

References

• 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
• Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II). (2026, February 9). EDCOM II: 51,000 classrooms likely to be condemned by 2028 [News release].

More in this series

• How the EDCOM Classroom Data Was Cleaned
• Philippine Classroom Shortage 2023: Where the Gap Is
• DepEd School Building Program 2026 in Numbers
• Do 2026 Classrooms Go Where the Shortage Is?
• Classroom Allocation by LGU Income Class, 2026
• Class Shifts and Crowded Classrooms in DepEd Schools
• Last Mile Schools: Classroom Need and 2026 Allocation
• Regional reports: NCR, CAR, Region I, Region II, Region III, Region IV-A, MIMAROPA, Region V, Region VI, NIR, Region VII, Region VIII, Region IX, Region X, Region XI, Region XII, Caraga, BARMM
• Rankings and deep dives: Congressional districts, Top 20 cities and municipalities, Rizal, Quezon City, City of Manila, Tawi-Tawi, Cavite, Cost of a classroom
• Explainers: PSIP III, Senior high shortage, Junior high shortage, Excess classrooms, Learning Continuity Spaces, How learners reach school
• For teachers and school heads: Action research and thesis topics
• Related: CRLA Results SY 2025-26 in Region X: Near the National Mark, DepEd Classroom and School Building Data, SY 2023-2024, DepEd School Improvement Plan (SIP): Steps, AIP and SRC

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.