About Us
About The Beacon School
In 2001, Beacon was founded by educators and other professionals, all lifelong-learners and dedicated parents, inspired to build a K to 8 school for their own children. They created The Beacon School to engage students in a rigorous and progressive programme of study, while nurturing them within a close-knit community. They envisioned a school that would cultivate leaders for the 21st century.
The Beacon School motto is Veritas et Lumen – the Truth and the Light – the fundamental principles that guide the educational philosophy and practice of the school.
Our Vision
Beacon strives to foster a learning community that will inspire its students to be lifelong learners and agents of change who are guided by compassion and integrity.
Our Mission
The Beacon School provides students with a global education that is both rigorous and balanced, that nurtures and inspires them toward their individual potential. The learning community encourages students to integrate a deep appreciation for Filipino culture with a respect for diversity, understanding the complexity of our world. They are challenged to become independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged citizens committed to act in service of society.
The Beacon Story
We started with a vision 22 years ago, to bring about a change that would help shape a better Philippines. We saw rich possibilities in today’s children; they can be the agents of change. Thus was born the Beacon School, now a thriving and sustainable institution.
A school that would help shape our country’s future by fostering a love and ability to learn in children who in turn would give back to society now and in the future.
A school that would develop an effective blueprint for progressive education and share it with all other schools across the country.
We believe that together, we can transform our nation.
Beacon strives to deliver a different type of education.
Its methods are predicated on values that we feel are crucial to national development –
Of honesty and integrity, tolerance, critical and imaginative thought.
Beacon’s Milestones
2001The Beacon School begins operations
2005IB Primary Years Programme was authorized (K to Grade 5) in January 2005
2006First batch of Grade 8 graduates
2007- IB Middle Years Programme is authorized (Grades 6 to 8) on November 19 2007.
- The Beacon School became the first IB World School in the Philippines.
2008The fundraising campaign for a high school begins. The campaign is called “Imagine A School.” Parents from The Beacon School support fundraising efforts through pledges and donations
2009The Beacon Academy raises start up funds, becomes a reality and begins operations at The Beacon School campus.
2010- The Beacon Academy begins the school year in its newly built campus in Binan, Laguna with 48 students and 15 faculty. - The Beacon School was named top-performing IB school when it ranked #1 in this year’s International Schools’ Assessment.
2011The Beacon School starts its expansion plans, opens a new kindergarten section that will add one new section to each grade with each successive year. The Beacon Academy also expands and its IB Diploma Programme is officially authorized.
2023The One Beacon fundraising campaign is officially launched.