{"id":2300,"date":"2019-02-25T10:55:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T02:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2023-03-07T11:54:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:54:33","slug":"up-integrated-school-in-quezon-city-a-pioneer-integrated-school-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/2019\/02\/25\/up-integrated-school-in-quezon-city-a-pioneer-integrated-school-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"UP Integrated School: A Pioneer in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Updated as of March 7, 2023<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Established in <strong>1976<\/strong>, the <strong>University of the Philippines Integrated School (UPIS)<\/strong> is one of the pioneering integrated schools in the Philippines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2303\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/UPIS-FB4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>UPIS is located within the walls of the UP Diliman campus in Quezon City<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The school serves three main functions: as a laboratory school, as a service school, and as a feeder school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a laboratory school, UPIS is the practicum and research site of student teachers not just from UP College of Education, but from other colleges and UP units, as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2302\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/UPIS-FB3.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/UPIS-FB3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/UPIS-FB3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/UPIS-FB3-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Inside a classroom of UPIS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Admission to the school is pretty cutthroat as priority is given to the children of UP employees and staff. As a service school, UPIS has 60 of 100 kindergarten slots reserved to employees\u2019 children. Their tuition fees are also discounted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2304\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/UPIS-FB5.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/UPIS-FB5.jpg 960w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/UPIS-FB5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/UPIS-FB5-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>UPIS gymnasium<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UPIS also serves as a feeder school of the University of the Philippines. Most graduates of the school opt to pursue higher education in the university. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As mentioned, UPIS only accepts a limited number of students per school year. They accept 100 students per level at most. New students are only allowed for Kindergarten and Grade 7 levels, provided there are enough slots and that they passed the Kindergarten Admission Test (KAT) or the Grade 7 Admission Test (GAT). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>School Details: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Address: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A.Ma.Regidor cor. Quirino Ave., Diliman, Quezon City<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Contact Number: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">02-929-7797<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Website:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upis.upd.edu.ph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upis.upd.edu.ph<\/a><br \/>\n<b>Annual Tuition Fee:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Around Php 14,000 to Php 15,000<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Target Age Range: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 years old and above<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Levels Offered:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Kinder to Grade 12<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Class Hours: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Between 9 a.m. and 3:20 p.m.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Admission Requirements:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Kindergarten Admission Test (KAT) and Grade 7 Admission Test (GAT)<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Student Population: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1,500<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Offers Trial Classes:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> No<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Extracurricular Activities:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Sports, science activities<\/span><br \/>\n<b>School Bus Service: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Uniforms: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Allows Late or Mid-Term Enrollment:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> No<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This first appeared in Philippine Primer Japanese magazine&#8217;s February 2019 issue.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Images grabbed from UP Integrated School <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/OfficialUPIS\/photos\/?ref=page_internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of the Philippines Integrated School (UPIS), established in 1976, is one of the pioneering integrated schools in the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,133,503,504,20],"tags":[400,402,401,399,218,396,397,398],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quezon","category-academic-institution","category-feature-of-the-month","category-good-school-guide-2019","category-local-school","tag-diliman-quezon-city","tag-integrated-school","tag-integrated-school-in-the-philippines","tag-local-school-in-quezon-city","tag-quezon-city","tag-up-integrated-school","tag-up-integrated-school-quezon-city","tag-upis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3004,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/3004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}