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Welcome to Ingenium School

Ingenium School is dedicated solely to the quality basic education of the young.

From its buildings and facilities to its curriculum, policies, and programs, the focus is the student. It’s a personal mission of the founders who are hands-on to guide the school to its vision and mission: nation-building for a better Philippines.

Our Mission

The formation of authentic leaders who will make positive contributions to the institutions they become part of, and thereby help transform society.

Our Vision

A better Philippines.

Core Values

Civitas - Ingenium School Core Value

Civitas

Citizenship

Each person is responsible for the society
Sapientia - Ingenium School Core Value

Sapientia

Wisdom

Wise choice and action are founded on truth.

Caritas

Love and Compassion

Leave no one behind. The model for the living out of the core values: The Man, Jesus.

Our Founders

The co-founders of Ingenium School, Fr. Edmundo M. Martinez and Dr. Salve B. Borlagdan, have dedicated their lives to education. Because Ingenium School is born of the lives’ work and training of Fr. Ed and Dr. Salve, both actively engage every day in guiding the school toward its mission of “For a better Philippines, one student at a time.”

Fr. Edmundo Martinez

Co-Founder

Fr. Edmundo Martinez has spent practically his whole life int he work of educational formation, whether as a student or as a teacher or as an educational leader. Graduating as valedictorian of his high school class and with First Honors in College in the Ateneo de Manila University, his long academic graduate training spanned the best universities in Europe and North America and focused on one central issue: how does a human person know, or put in educational terms, how does a person learn? This academic training was strongly complemented not only by periods of classroom teaching but, as importantly, by over 40 years of top level school administration in the Ateneo de Manila and the Ateneo de Davao Universities, capped by a mid-career MPA degree as Mason Fellow in Harvard University. In 2006, he joined Ingenium School to help it grow to where it is today.

Dr. Salve Borlagdan

Co-Founder

Dr. Salve Borlagdan has a similarly strong academic formation. She experienced American education first-hand as an AFS exchange student in Missouri, graduated as Salutatorian of her class at St. Agnes Academy in Legaspi City, and completed her MA in Psychology at the Ateneo de Manila University. She then moved on to earn her Ph.D. in Community Development that included research in the East-West Center in Hawaii, her success marked by scholarships and academic honors. This academic focus on psychology and community development was matched by years of actual engagement in development work that took her to the less developed regions of the country. This community development work made her realize the importance of educational formation and, coupled with her conviction of the critical role of early formation in bringing up her own child, led her to found the Ingenium School in 2000.

Our Teachers

High quality education requires high quality faculty, which is why we select our teachers based not only on their professional qualifications but also on their love for children and their commitment to a student’s success. We provide continuous training and mentoring to ensure that our teachers are always up-to-date with teaching methods and polishing their craft.

Our Facilities

Main Building

4-story building for our Grade School and Junior High School students.

Early Education Building

Where our youngest learners blossom in joy!

The 8 Facets of Ingenium School

One student at a time. Our outlook towards providing quality basic education requires dedicated focus to each student as a learner. At Ingenium, class sizes are strictly enforced to maintain 1 faculty to 7.5 student ratio.

Grade School and High School classes are limited to 30 students per class. Preschool classes are limited to 12 students, with two dedicated teachers.

Aside from our faculty, the school community consists of other full-time employees dedicated to our students:

  • ● Guidance Counsellor
  • ● Nurses
  • ● Librarians
  • ● Information Technology Personnel
  • ● Janitors
  • ● Maintenance Crew
  • ● Drivers
  • ● Security


The focus: quality formation of each student.

Adequate physical facilities, equipment, and educational resources are needed to carry out our educational task. Their level of quality is one measure of the seriousness and capacity of the school to provide quality education. The quality and care of a school’s physical facilities are indicators of the pride the school has in its work and the respect it has for its students.

Campus life at Ingenium thrives in two multi-storey buildings, designed with our students in mind. Each proudly features first class facilities and equipment for each and every student to enjoy.

Click here to learn more about the two multi-storey buildings at Ingenium School.

As a progressive school, Ingenium taps into the various teaching methodologies, both traditional and modern, as called for:

  • ● Integrated and Literature-based Learning
  • ● Project Approach and Enquiry method/Experiential Learning
  • ● Montessori Techniques
  • ● Mindfulness
  • ● Brain-based Learning
  • ● Social-Emotional Learning


The Objectives: For each student to be curious and enquiring, develop skills and habits of independent sourcing of information, grow in critical understanding, learn from mistakes, and cooperate and support one another in learning.

A particularly strong feature of Ingenium—founded on deep theoretical understanding, and validated in professional experience.

Among its educational principles:

  • ● The early years of the child are the most critical and effective intervention years in his/her life’s development.
  • ● The learner is the student. Teachers are midwives to inspire, stimulate, guide, facilitate, correct, encourage the students’ learning effort.
  • ● Love, rather than fear is the more effective lasting motivation for learning.
  • ● Learning is a cumulative developmental process: later stages build upon earlier stages. Hence, the goal is the mastery of the basic skills.
  • ● Learning is a life-long process. Hence, the importance of forming the habit and love of learning.
  • ● Learning thrives in a happy and stimulating environment.


The Challenge: To continually discover and innovate methods, tools, and techniques in order to imbed these principles in every aspect of Ingenium’s institutional culture.

Ingenium Faculty undergo continual training and formation, both professionally and in terms of personal development, with special consultants and other resource persons.

The Focus: to guide each student, not only academically, but also in their personal development and social-emotional growth.

Each class has a Class Advisor.

All faculty receive added support from:

  • ● The Academic Coordinator
  • ● Subject Area Heads
  • ● Student Activity Coordinator
  • ● Faculty Development Coordinator
  • ● Reading Specialist

The Vision: For a Better Philippines.

Human society is made up of institutions, of which the family is the most basic, Institutions are human creations, competent and motivated for service, the Ingenium graduate can change society for the better as he/she engages life through the institutions of the Philippine society.

The formation goals that will propel such change agents for the better are captured in Ingenium’s Core Values:

CIVITAS (Citizenship) — Each person is responsible for the society.

SAPIENTA (Wisdom) — Wise choice and action are founded on truth.

CARITAS (Love and Compassion) — Leave no one behind.

The model for the living out of these core values: The protector and loved shepherd of Ingenium School, Jesus.

The leadership challenge for an institution with a vision has always been execution: can that vision, so well expressed in words on paper, be actualized in the day-to-day operations of the institution?

The mission of Ingenium is the personal mission of its co-founders. Thus, hands-on management by the founders characterizes the administration of the school, and ensures the faithful pursuit of its vision and mission.

There is joy in learning, there is joy in sharing, there is joy in learning and sharing together with others. Such joy is the fertile soil of excellence.

The institutional culture of Ingenium is captured by the preschool tagline:“Where God’s-given talents blossom in joy.”

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Experience what it’s like to be a student at Ingenium School! Parents and children are welcome to explore our classrooms, labs, libraries, and other facilities firsthand.

Call 0917 153 1941 or 0917 160 3920 to schedule a school tour.

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