St. Scholastica's College

We are a Catholic Benedictine educational institution for young women committed to providing a holistic formation anchored on academic excellence to mold our students into critically aware and socially responsible agents of change towards transforming to a just and equitable society.
We envision self-fulfilled Scholastica women and men of character and integrity, imbued with Filipino, Christian, and Benedictine values, living out ora et labora, with a passion for service and commitment truth and justice to transform society.
"The Grade School Program, though the Small Group Prescribed Instruction with Individual Pacing (SGPIIP), impresses upon the pupils' spiritual and communication development critical thinking decision-making skills and, love for literature and the arts. Likewise, the Program endeavors to mold them into socially aware members of the community as well as building in them the ache to help and serve the country." Remaining committed to its thrust of Education for Justice and Social Transformation, the school offers academic scholarships, merit scholarships, sports scholarships, as well as financial assistance. The qualified student enjoys the scholarship or financial assistance for the duration of her/his course [maximum of four (4)/five (5) years only] unless terminated voluntarily by the student or by the school after due process due to failure to comply with one or more of the maintenance requirements.
The chapel was built in 1922, but the Romanesque architecture that inspired it dates back to about 1000 AD. It is typical of medieval European Romanesque abbeys with a magnificent rose window on the west end and a grand ceiling framed by trusses with ascending brown arches. The chapel is a wooden statue of Our Lady, to whom many Scholastican brides have offered their bouquets. A massive pipe organ is played on extraordinary occasions. At the chapel's east end in the sisters' choir section and high above the altar is a new addition, circa December 2005. Each eleven feet tall and six feet wide, three stained glass windows depict the Trinity, St. Benedict, and St. Scholastica. Three interlocking circles that symbolize the Trinity are set above three mounts associated with each Person: Mt. Sinai, the Father Mt. Calvary, he Son Mt. Sion, the Holy Spirit. The designer, Don Amorsolo, a grandson of the master, Fernando Amorsolo, achieved a "painterly" effect by instructing Kraut Art Glass, which executed his design, to paint in the glass fire it instead of using prepared glass in standard colors.
Found within the St. Cecilia Building is the St. Cecilia's Hall, which has witnessed musicians since the early forties. St. Cecilia's Hall has been the venue of the annual St. Cecilia's concert, graduation recital of the School of Music's graduates, and visiting artists' performances. It is also used as a venue for the programs/activities sponsored by the different student organizations for theater productions, programs, and other activities sponsored by students. It has a seating capacity of 995. It likewise can accommodate at any one time two (2) grand pianos, one (1) baby grand, a full orchestra, and a 100-voice choir. Located on the first floor of Annex A of the St. Mechtild Building, the Sr. Caridad Barrion Hall is used as a venue for meetings, conferences, seminars, and social functions. The fully airconditioned hall can seat about 120 people and, when necessary, can be converted into three small classrooms.
The Sr. Odiliana Rohrwaseer Hall Hall is located on the third floor of the new wing of the St. Mechtild Building. It is a venue for Instructional multi-media presentations, stage productions, presentations, piano performances, viewing/projection room, and is used as a Conference Room. Newly renovated in 2013, it is creatively designed for a small audience (limited to 60 only) to accommodate presentations that need interactive responses. The first five German Sisters: M. Ferdinanda Hoelzer, Sr. Petronilla Keller, Sr. Crescentia Verser, Sr. Winfrieda Mueller, and Novice Alexia Ruedenauer arrived on Philippine soil on September 14, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. The first school in a windowless wagon-shed along Moriones Street, Tondo opened for the first three grades on December 3. The first enrolment was eight children (2 boys and six girls) from well-to-do families and 50 boys and girls in the "Free School." Construction of the new building started on a more oversized church lot in Singalong offered by Archbishop Harty. At early dawn on the day before Christmas, the Sisters, together with some student boarders, moved to the new address 1532 Pennsylvania Avenue. The Educational Survey Commission and the Board of Education Survey named St. Scholastica's College one of the two schools maintaining the "highest standards concerning the physical plant, equipment, teaching personnel, and methods of instruction." On February 13, an incendiary bomb set St. Cecilia's Conservatory of Music on fire. The other buildings were also razed to the ground. All the buildings were gone except the small wooden structures: the free school, the old home economics building, and kindergarten. The School of Music was named a Center of Excellence in Music Education by the Commission on Higher Education. Two College graduates ranked fifth and 8th in the Licensure Examination for Teachers.