# Last Mile Schools: Classroom Need and 2026 Allocation

Last Mile Schools more often lack classrooms (61.5% vs 52.5%) yet less often get SBP 2026 classrooms (9.9% vs 11.0%). Why the gap reverses for like schools.

This is the Markdown copy of [Last Mile Schools: Classroom Need and 2026 Allocation](https://nash.com.ph/blog/last-mile-schools-classroom-shortage), 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.

Last Mile Schools need classrooms more often than other public schools, but they are a little less likely to be on the 2026 building list. Of the 47,659 public schools in DepEd's 2023 classroom shortage, as published in the EDCOM II classroom construction dashboard, 8,820 (18.5%) are flagged as Last Mile Schools. Of these, 61.5% have a classroom shortage, against 52.5% of other schools. Yet 9.9% of them get classrooms under the School Building Program (SBP) 2026, against 11.0% of other schools.

The gap reverses when like is compared with like. Against schools with the same shortage, enrollment, urban or rural setting and region, Last Mile Schools have slightly higher odds of getting SBP classrooms (odds ratio 1.24, 95% interval 1.04 to 1.47). As a group they receive less because they are small schools with small shortages, the kind of school the 2026 list includes least often. Still, 4,793 Last Mile Schools with a shortage got no SBP classroom.

The data join, school by school, the 2023 shortage and facilities data, SY 2024-25 enrollment and class shifts, and the 2026 SBP masterlist. The post is written for school heads and teachers in small, remote schools, and for those who plan classroom building for them.

## Key findings

- Of the 47,659 public schools in the 2023 shortage table, 8,820 (18.5%) are on DepEd's Last Mile School list; they enroll 6.6% of learners, and the median one has 94 learners, against 267 at other schools.
- Last Mile Schools are more likely to have a classroom shortage (61.5% against 52.5%, risk ratio 1.17) and to hold classes in makeshift rooms (35.8% against 27.5%, risk ratio 1.30).
- Their shortage is larger for their size, 10.3 classrooms per 1,000 learners against 7.2, but their rooms are less crowded (median 21.0 learners per classroom, against 27.1), and only 0.7% run two or more shifts.
- They are less likely to get SBP 2026 classrooms (9.9% against 11.0%, risk ratio 0.90), but compared with schools of the same shortage, size, setting and region, they are slightly more likely (odds ratio 1.24, 95% interval 1.04 to 1.47).
- DepEd's own Last Mile School modality has 170 lines with 502 classrooms and PHP 2.98 billion, a median of PHP 5.57 million per classroom with furniture, solar power, water and toilets bundled in.
- In all, 2,364 SBP 2026 classrooms go to Last Mile Schools, but 4,793 Last Mile Schools with a shortage, short 13,152 classrooms between them, got none.
- CAR has the most Last Mile Schools, 1,171 or 63.5% of its schools, followed by Region VIII and NIR; BARMM has 20 and NCR none.

## Last Mile Schools compared with other public schools

EDCOM II's National Education Plan 2026–2035 describes Last Mile Schools as schools in geographically isolated, disadvantaged and conflict-affected areas (GIDCAs) and in hardship posts. Here, a school counts as one when DepEd's 2023 shortage table flags it. The 8,820 flagged schools enroll 1,477,131 learners in SY 2024-25, 6.6% of the total, and the median one has 94 learners, against 267 at other schools. Most are rural (88.4%, against 74.1% of other schools) and offer only elementary grades (91.3%, against 75.1%).

![Dot plot of the share of Last Mile Schools and other public schools with seven conditions, among them a classroom shortage, 61.5% against 52.5%; makeshift rooms, 35.8% against 27.5%; two or more shifts, 0.7% against 5.1%; and SBP 2026 classrooms, 9.9% against 11.0%.](https://nash.com.ph/blog/_astro/last-mile-schools-vs-other-schools.BEWDfNDZ_VzKIz.webp)

*Figure 1. Share of Last Mile Schools and of other public schools with each condition, with 95% Wilson intervals. Facilities are from 2023, shifts from SY 2024-25 and allocations from the SBP 2026 masterlist. Chart: © 2026 Mark Anthony Llego, NASH Reviewer. [Download the full-resolution chart (PNG)](https://nash.com.ph/blog/charts/deped-data/last-mile-schools-vs-other-schools.png).*

A risk ratio divides the share of Last Mile Schools with a condition by the share of other schools with it; 1 means no difference. Last Mile Schools are more likely to have a classroom shortage (risk ratio 1.17) and to hold classes in makeshift rooms (1.30). Temporary learning spaces are about as common in both groups (11.2% against 10.7%), and that ratio's interval, 0.98 to 1.12, includes 1.

Other conditions run the other way. Last Mile Schools are less likely to have a building for condemnation or demolition (22.2% against 30.4%) or one needing major repair (59.2% against 66.2%). These shares count schools, not buildings, so they may partly reflect size: a school with few buildings has fewer chances to have any one in a given condition. Almost none run shifts (0.7% against 5.1%), which is how crowded schools stretch their rooms ([Class Shifts and Crowded Classrooms in DepEd Schools](https://nash.com.ph/blog/class-shifting-crowded-classrooms)).

Each share carries a 95% Wilson score interval (Wilson, 1927), a range that stays reliable even near 0% or 100%. The data cover nearly every public school, so the intervals show how far a share could move by chance alone, not survey error; most are narrower than the dots.

| Indicator                                     | Last Mile Schools      | Other schools            | Risk ratio (95% interval)   |
|:----------------------------------------------|:-----------------------|:-------------------------|:----------------------------|
| Has a classroom shortage (2023)               | 61.5% (5,425 of 8,820) | 52.5% (20,398 of 38,839) | 1.17 (1.15 to 1.19)         |
| Uses makeshift rooms (2023)                   | 35.8% (3,155 of 8,808) | 27.5% (10,651 of 38,773) | 1.30 (1.26 to 1.35)         |
| Uses temporary learning spaces (2023)         | 11.2% (989 of 8,808)   | 10.7% (4,168 of 38,773)  | 1.04 (0.98 to 1.12)         |
| Has a building for condemnation or demolition | 22.2% (1,953 of 8,808) | 30.4% (11,797 of 38,772) | 0.73 (0.70 to 0.76)         |
| Has a building needing major repair           | 59.2% (5,210 of 8,808) | 66.2% (25,670 of 38,772) | 0.89 (0.88 to 0.91)         |
| Runs two or more shifts (SY 2024-25)          | 0.7% (62 of 8,794)     | 5.1% (1,959 of 38,730)   | 0.14 (0.11 to 0.18)         |
| Gets SBP 2026 classrooms                      | 9.9% (870 of 8,820)    | 11.0% (4,268 of 38,839)  | 0.90 (0.84 to 0.96)         |

Measured against learners, the need at Last Mile Schools is larger. They are short 15,245 classrooms, 9.2% of the national shortage, while enrolling 6.6% of learners: 10.3 classrooms per 1,000 learners, against 7.2 at other schools and 7.4 nationally ([Philippine Classroom Shortage 2023: Where the Gap Is](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-shortage-philippines-2023)). Yet the median Last Mile School has 21.0 learners per classroom, against 27.1, and among schools with a shortage the median is 2.0 classrooms short, against 3.0. Mann-Whitney tests (Mann & Whitney, 1947) find both differences statistically clear (p < 0.001), with rank-biserial correlations (Kerby, 2014) of −0.28 and −0.27, small to moderate. Both facts fit small schools: two missing rooms weigh far more per learner in a school of 94 than in a school of 267.

## Last Mile Schools by region

CAR has the most Last Mile Schools, 1,171, and they make up 63.5% of its schools. Region VIII follows with 1,059 (25.3%) and NIR with 883 (39.9%); the three hold 35.3% of all Last Mile Schools in these data. NCR has none and BARMM has 20, 0.9% of its schools. The list in these data barely covers BARMM schools, so this post's comparisons say little about BARMM. Sulu's schools are counted in Region IX, since its schools division moved to DepEd Region IX on 20 October 2026.

![Horizontal bar chart of Last Mile Schools by region with their share of the region's schools: CAR 1,171 (63.5%), Region VIII 1,059 (25.3%), NIR 883 (39.9%), Region IX 629 (21.1%) and CARAGA 627 (29.9%) lead; BARMM has 20 (0.9%) and NCR none.](https://nash.com.ph/blog/_astro/last-mile-schools-by-region.Bc4FkZ0T_1FvRvA.webp)

*Figure 2. Last Mile Schools by region in the 2023 classroom shortage table, with their share of the region's public schools. Chart: © 2026 Mark Anthony Llego, NASH Reviewer. [Download the full-resolution chart (PNG)](https://nash.com.ph/blog/charts/deped-data/last-mile-schools-by-region.png).*

The table adds each region's Last Mile shortage and SBP 2026 classrooms. Region VIII's Last Mile Schools have the largest shortage, 1,812 classrooms, and 167 SBP classrooms. CAR's have 1,636 classrooms of shortage and 444 SBP classrooms, the most of any region. Region XII's are short 946 and have 75; BARMM's 20 are short 94 and have none.

| Region      |   Schools |   Last Mile Schools |   Share of the region's schools |   Classroom shortage at LMS |   SBP 2026 classrooms at LMS |
|:------------|----------:|--------------------:|--------------------------------:|----------------------------:|-----------------------------:|
| CAR         |     1,844 |               1,171 |                           63.5% |                       1,636 |                          444 |
| Region VIII |     4,188 |               1,059 |                           25.3% |                       1,812 |                          167 |
| NIR         |     2,211 |                 883 |                           39.9% |                       1,596 |                          275 |
| Region IX   |     2,985 |                 629 |                           21.1% |                       1,429 |                          168 |
| CARAGA      |     2,096 |                 627 |                           29.9% |                       1,142 |                          104 |
| Region V    |     3,852 |                 625 |                           16.2% |                         917 |                          144 |
| MIMAROPA    |     2,377 |                 588 |                           24.7% |                         932 |                          105 |
| Region VII  |     2,782 |                 534 |                           19.2% |                         930 |                          156 |
| Region II   |     2,535 |                 430 |                           17.0% |                         468 |                          141 |
| Region VI   |     2,829 |                 395 |                           14.0% |                         459 |                           74 |
| Region X    |     2,521 |                 364 |                           14.4% |                         789 |                          109 |
| Region I    |     2,860 |                 355 |                           12.4% |                         206 |                          100 |
| Region III  |     3,705 |                 342 |                            9.2% |                         526 |                          147 |
| Region IV-A |     3,552 |                 311 |                            8.8% |                         545 |                           65 |
| Region XII  |     2,139 |                 258 |                           12.1% |                         946 |                           75 |
| Region XI   |     2,206 |                 229 |                           10.4% |                         820 |                           90 |
| BARMM       |     2,150 |                  20 |                            0.9% |                          94 |                            0 |
| NCR         |       827 |                   0 |                            0.0% |                           0 |                            0 |

## Do Last Mile Schools get SBP 2026 classrooms?

Counted simply, Last Mile Schools are less likely to be on the 2026 list: 9.9% get at least one SBP classroom, against 11.0% of other schools (risk ratio 0.90, 0.84 to 0.96). Their 2,364 SBP classrooms equal 15.5% of their shortage, against 19.7% for other schools. Counting at each school only the classrooms up to its own shortage, 8.2% of the Last Mile shortage is met, against 10.6%.

A simple count mixes Last Mile status with what comes with it, and the chance of getting SBP classrooms rises with a school's shortage and enrollment ([Do 2026 Classrooms Go Where the Shortage Is?](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-allocation-vs-shortage-2026)). To compare like with like, a logistic regression (Hosmer et al., 2013) estimated the chance that a school gets any SBP classroom from its Last Mile status, shortage, enrollment, urban or rural setting and region, with standard errors clustered by division (Cameron & Miller, 2015), because schools in the same division tend to be alike.

The model reports odds ratios. The odds are the chance of getting classrooms divided by the chance of not getting them, and the odds ratio divides the odds of Last Mile Schools by those of other schools: below 1 is less likely, above 1 more likely. With only about one school in ten getting SBP classrooms, it reads close to a risk ratio. With Last Mile status alone, the odds ratio is 0.89 (0.75 to 1.05, p = 0.161). With the other factors held equal, it is 1.24 (1.04 to 1.47, p = 0.016). The model covers 47,495 schools in 227 divisions.

Both answers are true. Small schools with small shortages are the ones least often on the list, and Last Mile Schools tend to be such schools, which pulls their simple rate down. Against a school of the same size and shortage in the same region, a Last Mile School has odds about one and a quarter times as high. Statisticians call this confounding: a third factor hides or reverses a link. It is an association on paper, not proof that the label caused any allocation.

The simple risk ratio's interval treats schools as independent. The model's interval for the same comparison, 0.75 to 1.05, allows for schools in a division being alike and includes 1, so the simple shortfall is not firmly established.

## The SBP 2026 lines for Last Mile Schools

The SBP 2026 masterlist has its own modality for Last Mile Schools, "DEPED - LMS": 170 lines with 502 classrooms at 169 schools, for PHP 2.98 billion. The median cost is PHP 5.57 million per classroom, against PHP 3.03 million for all new classroom buildings with a budget ([DepEd School Building Program 2026 in Numbers](https://nash.com.ph/blog/deped-school-building-program-2026)). The two are not like for like: the scope texts bundle the rooms with school furniture, a solar power system, a rainwater collector or water system and a common toilet. Of the 170 lines, 120 (70.6%) are at schools flagged as Last Mile Schools in the 2023 shortage table; the list may have changed since.

Most SBP classrooms at Last Mile Schools come through other agencies. Of the 2,364, local government units (LGUs) build 988 (41.8%) and DPWH 710 (30.0%). DepEd's own Last Mile School and Learning Continuity Space lines account for 623 (26.4%). The third Public-Private Partnership for School Infrastructure Project (PSIP III), still for bidding with construction expected from March 2027 to July 2028, accounts for 43 (1.8%), although it holds 50.3% of all SBP 2026 classrooms. Of the Last Mile Schools with a shortage, 4,793 got no SBP classroom; they are short 13,152 of the 15,245 classrooms missing at Last Mile Schools.

EDCOM II's National Education Plan sets a target of 9,542 Last Mile School classrooms (DepEd, 2025), with 1,590 a year in 2026, 2027 and 2028. EDCOM II also reported on 20 October 2026 that the FY 2027 budget proposal, with DepEd's additional request, covers 69 Last Mile School buildings. These targets should not be set against the 2,364 classrooms here, which count every SBP 2026 classroom, under any agency, at a school on the 2023 list ([National Education Plan 2026-2035: Guide for School Heads](https://nash.com.ph/blog/national-education-plan-2026-2035) explains the plan's targets).

## What this means for school heads and teachers

- **Check your school in the data first.** Find your school ID in the school table (download below) and read `last_mile_school`, `shortage_total`, `sbp_classrooms` and the facilities columns; a masterlist line shows the agency and scope ([How to Read DepEd Data: A Guide for Aspiring School Heads](https://nash.com.ph/blog/how-to-read-deped-data)).
- **Document need beyond the classroom count.** The shortage counts rooms. A remote school's case also rests on makeshift rooms, unsafe buildings, how workers and materials reach the site (by boat, habal-habal or footpath), and hazards such as landslides. Keep that record, with photos and dates, in the [School Improvement Plan and Annual Implementation Plan](https://nash.com.ph/blog/deped-school-improvement-plan), and report it in the facilities inventory so it reaches DepEd's data.
- **Make multigrade realities visible.** Small elementary schools often combine grades in one class. State in the SIP which room each class uses and what a separate room would change; a count of classrooms short does not show two grades sharing one makeshift room.
- **Work with the division and the LGU together.** LGU lines carry the largest share of SBP classrooms at Last Mile Schools, 988 of 2,364. Bring the documented need to the Local School Board and the municipal or provincial engineer as well as the division ([Classroom Allocation by LGU Income Class, 2026](https://nash.com.ph/blog/classroom-allocation-lgu-income-class); [PPSSH Domain 2: Managing School Operations With DepEd Data](https://nash.com.ph/blog/ppssh-domain-2-managing-school-operations)).
- **Use Brigada Eskwela for what it can fix.** Volunteers can repair minor damage and keep makeshift rooms safe, but not replace a building. Record what was repaired, and treat a line on the 2026 list as a plan until the building is turned over.

## How these numbers were made

The base is the 47,659 public schools in DepEd's 2023 classroom shortage table, as published in the EDCOM II classroom construction dashboard and cleaned for this series ([How the EDCOM Classroom Data Was Cleaned](https://nash.com.ph/blog/edcom-classroom-data-cleaned)). Each school is joined on its current ID to the 2023 facilities data, SY 2024-25 enrollment and shifts, and the SBP 2026 masterlist. The cleaned data reproduce the dashboard's totals: 165,443 classrooms short at 25,823 schools, and 32,419 SBP classrooms.

- **Last Mile School:** flagged in the 2023 shortage table; a school with no flag counts as not one.
- **Indicators:** a shortage above zero; any makeshift room or temporary learning space (elementary plus high school); any building for condemnation or demolition, or needing major repair; two or more shifts at any level in SY 2024-25; any SBP classroom. Facility shares count only schools in the facilities data.
- **Shares and risk ratios:** schools with the condition divided by schools with data, with Wilson score intervals; the risk ratio is the Last Mile share over the other share, with a Katz log interval (Katz et al., 1978).
- **Shortage per 1,000 learners:** total shortage over total SY 2024-25 enrollment, times 1,000, for schools with learners. **Learners per classroom:** the dashboard's overall ratio, SY 2024-25 learners over 2023 instructional classrooms.
- **Coverage:** SBP classrooms over the shortage. Shortage met within schools adds, school by school, the smaller of SBP classrooms and shortage, over the shortage.
- **Group comparisons:** two-sided Mann-Whitney U tests; the rank-biserial correlation runs from −1 to 1 and is negative when Last Mile Schools tend lower.
- **Model:** logistic regression of getting any SBP classroom on Last Mile status, the logarithm of one plus the shortage, the base-2 logarithm of enrollment, an urban indicator and region indicators, with division-clustered standard errors, for schools with learners and an urban or rural code; the unadjusted model has Last Mile status alone.
- **Last Mile School modality:** masterlist lines marked "DEPED - LMS"; cost per classroom is budget over the classroom column, for new classroom buildings.

The analysis was done in Python with pandas, statsmodels and SciPy.

## Limits

The years differ: the shortage, facilities and Last Mile flag are from 2023, enrollment and shifts from SY 2024-25, and allocations from 2026. The flag may have changed since 2023. Allocations are plans, not buildings, and PSIP III is still for bidding.

The shortage is DepEd's own estimate, a count of rooms that may miss access, hazards or combined classes. The flag barely covers BARMM schools. On 25 Last Mile School lines, the classroom column counts fewer rooms than the scope text names, which may overstate their cost per classroom. The masterlist's 103 duplicate lines are all PSIP III and touch Last Mile Schools little.

Facility indicators cover 8,808 of the 8,820 Last Mile Schools. And these are associations: factors the model leaves out, such as site conditions, may explain part of the result.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is a Last Mile School in the Philippines?

EDCOM II's National Education Plan 2026–2035 describes Last Mile Schools as schools in geographically isolated, disadvantaged and conflict-affected areas and in hardship posts; DepEd keeps the list. In DepEd's 2023 classroom shortage table, 8,820 of 47,659 public schools (18.5%) are flagged. Most are small, rural elementary schools.

### Which regions have the most Last Mile Schools?

In the 2023 shortage table, CAR has the most, 1,171 (63.5% of its schools), followed by Region VIII (1,059) and NIR (883); BARMM has 20 and NCR none.

### Do Last Mile Schools get classrooms under the 2026 School Building Program?

Some do: 9.9% get SBP 2026 classrooms, 2,364 in all, against 11.0% of other schools. Against schools of the same shortage, size, setting and region, they are slightly more likely to get them (odds ratio 1.24). But 4,793 Last Mile Schools with a shortage got none.

### Why do Last Mile Schools have fewer learners per classroom but a larger shortage per learner?

Because they are small. The median Last Mile School has 94 learners and 21.0 learners per classroom, but a missing room or two weighs heavily against so few learners: 10.3 classrooms per 1,000 learners, against 7.2 at other schools.

## 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 quoted in this series, with the data behind each chart, is in [analysis_tables.zip](https://data.nash.com.ph/edcom-classroom-data/v1.1/analysis_tables.zip).

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). *Last Mile Schools: Classroom need and 2026 allocation*. NASH Reviewer Blog. https://nash.com.ph/blog/last-mile-schools-classroom-shortage

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## 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: [DepEd Classroom and School Building Data, SY 2023-2024](https://nash.com.ph/blog/deped-classroom-school-building-data-sy-2023-2024), [National Education Plan 2026-2035: Guide for School Heads](https://nash.com.ph/blog/national-education-plan-2026-2035), [EDCOM II Final Report: Guide for Aspiring School Heads](https://nash.com.ph/blog/edcom-ii-final-report), [DepEd School Improvement Plan (SIP): Steps, AIP and SRC](https://nash.com.ph/blog/deped-school-improvement-plan), [PPSSH Domain 2: Managing School Operations With DepEd Data](https://nash.com.ph/blog/ppssh-domain-2-managing-school-operations), [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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