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Public records, each kept as its publisher printed it, and what schools tell us themselves.
What each General Appropriations Act of the Bangsamoro, FY 2020 to FY 2026, gives the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education, and the programs it lists under it, read from the Budget workspace’s extraction of the Acts. An appropriation is money set aside, not money spent. The Acts still list the Division of Sulu, which left the region in 2024, and its lines are shown as printed.
2,470 schools, public and private, from the Department of Education’s Project Bukas files: its school-level enrolment for school years 2023–24, 2024–25, 2025–26, downloaded on 13 November 2026. The list is the latest year’s; each school carries its learners for every year. Credit for the data is DepEd’s, under its terms of use; DepEd has no part in this site. Sulu’s schools are left out, as the directory follows the region since 2024. The Special Geographic Area’s schools, which DepEd still files under their old North Cotabato towns, are placed in the SGA town their barangay is now in.
Where each school stands, the year it was founded and its pupils in 2012–13 and 2015–16 come from DepEd’s 2019 masterlist, as cleaned and published by the OpenStreetMap Philippines community as OSMaPaaralan (also on the Humanitarian Data Exchange), matched by school ID, or by name in the same town for a school DepEd has since renumbered. A school new since 2019 is shown at its town’s centre until someone maps it. 118 schools on the 2019 list are not on the latest one: closed, merged, or renumbered past matching.
What it cannot tell you: learners are formal schooling only, not the Alternative Learning System or community learning centres, and madaris outside the public schools are only those OpenStreetMap names. The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education publishes no list of its own; its figures, as it and the Parliament have stated them, are on the overview.
The whole list, as this site holds it, is yours to take: download it as a spreadsheet (CSV), one row a school with its ID, kind, town, district, pupils and coordinates. The districts and divisions the public schools answer to are set out on their own page.
DepEd’s list holds public schools only, and no list of the region’s private schools is published that we have found. So 63 more come from OpenStreetMap: the schools it names as private or religious, madaris and Islamic schools, and colleges and universities, that are not already on DepEd’s list. Its government schools are not added, so a public school written two ways is not counted twice. Campus buildings and offices it names are left out.
Whether a school is public or private is OpenStreetMap’s own tag where it has one. Otherwise a name decides it only where it leaves no doubt: a foundation or an incorporated school, or a Notre Dame or other church school, is private; a state university or college, or a school the education ministry funds by name, is public. The rest are marked “not stated”. Its kind (elementary, high school, college or university, madrasah) is read from OpenStreetMap and from the name. This is far from every private school, madrasah or college in the region: only those volunteers have mapped.
62 more are added from Wikipedia’s list of the country’s colleges and universities, its Bangsamoro section: the state college campuses and private colleges neither DepEd’s list nor OpenStreetMap has, each placed at its town, or where Wikidata records its coordinates. Whether one is public or private is the list’s own section. A few schools with a Wikipedia article of their own are added the same way (datasets/education/school-additions.json).
Photographs are freely licensed files on Wikimedia Commons, credited on each page; few schools in the region have one yet. 11 schools have a short history, written from the sources listed under it: the school’s own pages, the laws that created or converted it, government agencies and news reports.
989schools are pinned where they stand: by the coordinates on DepEd’s list where it has them, and otherwise by the one school of the same name in the same town on OpenStreetMap (map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License). The other 1,606are shown at their town’s centre, drawn as a ring rather than a dot, and their pages say so. The base map is CARTO’s.