The DepEd Mission:

To protect and promote the right of every Filipino to quality, equitable, culture based, and complete basic education where: students learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe and motivating environment; teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every learner; administrators and staff, as stewards of the institution, ensure an enabling and supportive environment for effective learning to happen; family, community, and other stakeholders are actively engaged and share responsibility for developing life-long learners.