Don Bosco Academy, Pampanga
High School Building
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| Motto | Luctor Et Emergo (I Struggle, I Win) |
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| Type | Private, Salesian |
| Established | 1956 (Bacolor) 1996 (Mabalacat City) |
| Rector | Fr. Ramon G. Borja, SDB |
| Principal | Fr. Rusty Dizon, SDB |
| Students | Approx. 1,400 |
| Location | Mabalacat, Pampanga, Philippines |
| Campus | Urban |
| Accreditation | PAASCU Level II |
| Colors | Gray, Blue and White |
| Nickname | Bosconians, Busko, Salesians |
| Mascot | Grigio |
| Affiliations | MILO Best Pasarelle, SBP, TCPEIA, CEAP, CBCP |
| Website | www.dbapampanga.net |
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Don Bosco Academy (also called "Don Bosco Pampanga" or simply "DBA") is a private Catholic educational institution for boys run by the Salesians of Don Bosco in the Philippines. Its campus is located in Mabalacat City, Pampanga, Philippines.
This school was named after St. John Bosco whom the Catholic Church has proclaimed as the "Father and Teacher of Youth." St. John Bosco dedicated his life to education of the youth. To continue this work, he founded a religious congregation of priests and brothers - the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB).
The presence of Don Bosco in the Philippines began in 1912 when two Salesian priests arrived in the Parish of Nuestra de los Remedios in Malate, Manila. Ten years later, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. William Piani,SDB and Rev. Louis Morrow,SDB were appointed Delegate and Secretary respectively. The Salesian mission in the Philippines took a more definite shape with the designation of Rev. Fr. Charles Braga, SDB as the first Provincial Superior. He paved the way for the establishment of a permanent Salesian Society in the country.
The first Salesian educational institution, St. John Bosco Academy, was founded in 1951 in Tarlac, Tarlac. A second institution was established in 1952 at Victorias, Negros Occidental, and was followed by other schools in Mandaluyong in 1953, in Cebu and in Makati in 1954 and eventually Pampanga in 1956.
The years that followed saw an ever-increasing enrollment of students that paved the way for the construction of more buildings and facilities inside the DBA campus.
The grade school curriculum offering expanded to add Grades 3 to 4.
In 1963, a fourth edifice was added. This was the two-story Juniorate or Salesian School for Minor Seminarians, a seedbed for many future Salesian priests and lay brothers in the Philippines. A large multi-purpose gymnasium was also built on the same year to house the sports and cultural facilities of the school.
As DBA's fame grew, it saw a continuous expansion of its campus facilities and a significant increase in student population to a point that the school had to regulate enrollment admissions in the form of entrance exams and interviews. In less than a decade, a young school exclusively for boys, seminarians and out-of-school youth flourished rapidly to meet the growing interest in the charism of Don Bosco.
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