Published by Department of Education(DepEd) on April 14, 2021.
Requested from DepEd by R. Rr&A-Quezon City at 07:49 PM on
April 14, 2021.
Purpose: Research Purposes
Date of Coverage: 04/14/2021 - 04/14/2021
Tracking no: #DepEd-846765007566
J.GONZALES
April 14, 2021, 7:49 p.m.
Hello officer! I would like to humbly ask if you can help me gather the following data:
1.) Nationwide location data of primary and secondary schools (both private and public) as of 2021 (or earlier of updated list is not available). Location data could be in the form of coordinates (latitude and longitude) or simply their addresses (if coordinates are not available).
2.) Level of education being offered for each school (primary, secondary, or both)
3.) If available, please include capacity (target number of students) per school.
I hope you could help me gather these data.
Thank you :)
B.BERAME
April 18, 2021, 10:22 a.m.
April 18, 2021
Dear Jonathan,
Thank you for your request dated Apr 14, 2021 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Location Data of Nationwide Public and Private Schools (Primary and Secondary).
We received your request on Apr 14, 2021 and will respond on or before May 05, 2021 07:49:02 PM, in accordance with the Executive Order's implementing rules and regulations.
Should you have any questions regarding your request, kindly contact me using the reply function on the eFOI portal at https://foi.gov.ph/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHwsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEkRlcEVkLTg0Njc2NTAwNzU2Ngw, for request with ticket number #DepEd-846765007566.
Thank you.
Respectfully,
Beverly Berame
FOI Receiving Officer
P.ACTION CENTER
April 18, 2021, 10:39 a.m.
April 18, 2021
Dear Jonathan Gonzales,
I refer to my letter of Apr 14, 2021 07:49:02 PM about your request under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Location Data of Nationwide Public and Private Schools (Primary and Secondary).
In order for us to work further on your request, we need more information from you regarding your query. In particular, it would be helpful to send us a formal request letter that outlines the specific information you need and the purpose of your study, a SHORT ABSTRACT as well as the intended output of your project (a paper, video, radio production, or whatever you have.
You may use the reply function on the eFOI portal at https://pcoomaster10262017200000-dot-efoi-ph.appspot.com/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHwsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEkRlcEVkLTg0Njc2NTAwNzU2Ngw, for request with ticket number #DepEd-846765007566, to respond.
During the period of us awaiting your reply, your request will be put on hold. If we do not receive a reply on or before Jul 09, 2021 02:38:55 AM, your request will be closed.
We hope to hear from you at the soonest possible time.
Thank you.
Respectfully,
Public Assistance Action Center
FOI Receiving Office
J.GONZALES
April 18, 2021, 3:02 p.m.
Greetings FOI Officers!
I am Jonathan Gonzales, an individual who intends to explore and study educational provision capabilities of schools in the Philippines.
I intend to study the topic using location data (geospatial data) of schools together with the projected population of per area in the following years. This might help us proactively pinpoint areas foreseen to lack sufficient capacity to accommodate students. In this research I will be using GIS tools to prepare the data, and programming to carefully study the cleaned data.
I formally request the following data for this research:
1.) Nationwide location data of primary and secondary schools as of 2021. Location data could be in the form of coordinates (latitude and longitude) or their complete addresses.
DepEd has already published its masterlist of schools, however, addresses of significant number of schools are either truncated or not available.
2.) Level of education being offered for each school (primary, secondary, or both)
This is intended to be used in aggregation of data in the research, comparing the capacities for each category.
3.) Capacity of schools (number of students the school is capable of accommodating).
This will be the key data as this will strongly influence the output of the research.
I intend to publish the research on the GitHub platform (https://github.com/) in the form of coding notebook.
I am hoping this project would materialize with your help.
Thank you.
P.ACTION CENTER
April 25, 2021, 1:49 p.m.
April 25, 2021
Dear Jonathan Gonzales,
Thank you for your response dated April,14, 2021, with regard to my letter regarding clarifying your request on Location Data of Nationwide Public and Private Schools (Primary and Secondary), dated Apr 18, 2021 10:39 AM.
We would still need to request you to further clarify your request. Please provide us a short abstract of your study.
You may use the reply function on the eFOI portal at https://foi.gov.ph/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHwsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEkRlcEVkLTg0Njc2NTAwNzU2Ngw, for request with ticket number #DepEd-846765007566, to respond.
You would still have until Jul 16, 2021 05:49:10 AM to provide the information.
We hope to hear from you at the soonest possible time.
Thank you.
Respectfully,
Public Assistance Action Center
FOI Receiving Office
J.GONZALES
April 25, 2021, 4:05 p.m.
Thank you for your response.
I would like to inquire what are the specific points that I need to clarify before I write an abstract. This will help me clarify details that you require.
P.ACTION CENTER
July 9, 2021, 11:35 a.m.
Jul 09, 2021
Dear Jonathan,
I refer to my letter of Apr 18, 2021 about your request under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Location Data of Nationwide Public and Private Schools (Primary and Secondary). In particular, I had requested specific information for you to clarify upon in order for us to proceed with the request.
As we have not received a reply within the 60-day working period since the letter requesting for clarification was sent out, we regret to inform you that this request will be closed as of Jul 09, 2021.
You may wish to submit a new request describing the specific information you are looking for, and we will be able to consider it under the guidelines as stated in Executive Order No. 2.
Your right to request a review
If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to or visiting our central office. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.
If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).
Thank you.
Respectfully,
Public Assistance
FOI Officer
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