Three Schools, Twenty Classrooms on the Drawing Board
OZAMIZ CITY - The August procurement notices cover three separate school projects in Ozamiz City. Sangay Integrated School in Purok-2, Sangay Daku is listed for a one-storey, four-classroom building, while Domingo A. Barloa Integrated School in Purok-3, Molicay is included in a much larger three-storey, 12-classroom building project. Cogon Integrated School is also included, with a two-storey, four-classroom building for Phase I, together with bundled school furniture. Taken together, the three projects represent 20 planned classrooms. The notices identify the Province of Misamis Occidental as the procuring entity and were published on August 17, 2026.
The Numbers Tell a Useful Story
Twenty classrooms may sound like a simple figure, but the projects differ considerably in scale. Barloa Integrated School accounts for the largest portion with 12 classrooms spread across three storeys. Sangay Integrated School has a four-classroom one-storey project, while Cogon Integrated School’s Phase I calls for four classrooms in a two-storey structure and includes bundled furniture. The procurement listings show September 8 as the submission deadline for the Sangay, Barloa, and Cogon projects. That distinction matters: these are procurement opportunities, not completed buildings. The positive development is that the projects have reached the public-bidding stage, creating a documented pathway toward additional school facilities.
A Practical Investment in School Capacity
New classrooms can provide schools with more physical space to organize instruction, although the actual effect will depend on the eventual completion and use of each project. For Cogon Integrated School, the inclusion of bundled furniture is particularly notable because the procurement is not limited to constructing the structure itself. Meanwhile, the larger Barloa project indicates a substantial planned addition at a single school. None of the available August notices states when construction will begin or when the buildings will open, so those details should not be assumed. What can be confirmed is more straightforward: three Ozamiz schools entered the procurement pipeline in August for projects totaling 20 classrooms, creating a tangible infrastructure story for the city’s public education system.
