Republic of the Philippines

Schools Division Office of Quezon City

In 1991, the owners of the rented school site and building at Pat Senador street, Ms. Aguenda Beltran and Josefina Lagasca, died one after the other, leaving the ownership of the property, after the court battle, to their heirs.

The loss of its rented school site and building at pat senador street prompted the school administration to transfer the effected classes to the two fil chinese friendship building in lot 5 of the madrigal estate…

In anticipation of  the problem that will crop resulting from congested make-shift classrooms, the division office advised the parents to transfer their children in nearby public school…

On the other hand, the association of urban residents of the immediate vicinity of lot 7 where the school constructed makeshift classrooms resisted the transfer of the school, and was persisted to ease out the school from the estate.

Sinag-tala elementary school was opened in the 1950 with two (2) buildings consisting of six (6) classrooms that send on a rented site along pat senador st., San Francisco del monte, Quezon city as an annex of San Francisco Elementary School

In the late 1970, the campaign n to have a permanent school site was intensified. With the study and evaluation made by the city planning and development office (cpdo) completed in 1980, madrigal estate was bought in March 13,1984 for P1,825, 725.00.

However, squatters started to occupy the madrigal estate including lot 5 which hindered the construction of school buildings for at least three times…

At the opening of the school year 1996-1997, the temporary classrooms at the covered court was vacated due to the hostile attitude of urban poor community.

Addressing this problem, the city government and the association representing the urban poor residents of lot 5 entered into the memorandum of agreement (moa).

Finally, on December 17,1997, city ordinance 583, s.97 was passed by the city council allotting 305 square meter open space for Sinag-Tala Elementary School.

On September 10,1998, the DPWH ordered the NCR Chief Comptrollership and Management Division to release ₱2,391,200.00 for the initial construction.

In August 15, 2003 a three – story nine – classroom building on Capillan St. Barangay San Antonio, SFDM was finally constructed and turned – over for use.