The most apt adage for this story is this: “Don’t judge a book by its cover.”
“Public schools in Makati City have bested private schools in this year’s National Achievement Test (NAT) taken by Grade Six and Fourth Year high school students based on the results released by the Department of Education National Education Testing and Research Center (DepEd-NTERC),” reports Anna Liza Villas in the Manila Bulletin.
DepEd-Makati officer-in-charge Dr. Dominico Idanan revealed that Makati public schools got a higher mean percentage score (MPS) average in the elementary level, 64.30% compared to 55.35% for private schools.
In the high school level, the city’s public schools got 63.06% while private schools posted 54.87%. Makati Science High School (MSHS) topped the high school level, posting the highest MPS average of 82.07%.
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