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The Ateneo de Manila
High School is situated in the sprawling Loyola Heights campus
of the Ateneo de Manila University. Loyola Heights is a
residential and university community within Metro Manila, with a
commercial strip housing banks, offices, restaurants, stores,
and a church. The district is also home to two other large educational
institutions: the University
of the Philippines and Miriam
College.
The Ateneo de Manila
University Campus is located along Katipunan Avenue, a major
thoroughfare adjacent to the said commercial strip. The High
School campus itself is located along the University's Fr.
Masterson Drive. Like the rest of the University, the High
School campus bears the Ateneo's characteristic gentle, rolling
terrain of grassy fields and tall trees. This beautiful, serene
environment provides a favorable atmosphere for disciplined
inquiry, fruitful interaction, and quiet reflection.
The high school campus
features various facilities and amenities designed to give full
and value-added support to the rigorous learning environment of
the Ateneo. It is home to a library, which is meant to serve the
entire community by providing access to numerous collections and
materials -- local and foreign books, periodicals, as well as
educational CD-ROMs and other computer-based multimedia programs
that members of the community can use. The library also houses a
study hall for students who wish to find a quiet place to catch
up on their academics. The high school is also home to the ITC
(Instructional Technology Center), a school facility that houses
numerous audio and video materials, numerous pieces of technical
equipment that can be used, and two AV rooms for viewing. The
Ateneo is also home to the Tanghalang Onofre Pagsanghan where
the group Dulaang Sibol stages theatrical an musical productions. The Tanghalan
is one of the high school's two theatres, the other being Hayes
Hall located in the Third Year wing. The
school also has an enormous sports complex, housing over five
courts that can be converted for use in either basketball or
volleyball, or even large gatherings, as well as three soccer
fields and a track oval. Beside this sports complex is another
major sports facility of the University -- the Moro Lorenzo
Sports Complex, a huge, multi-level training facility which
houses a basketball court, a volleyball court, an indoor track
oval, numerous training rooms, a weights room, and other
facilities for athletics. In the high school there are also numerous buildings
and
classrooms that can accommodate the growing student population
and house the high school's many offices, centers, and
laboratories. There are also two cafeterias open to service all
those who might need refreshments or full meals.
The usual basic services are offered by an
infirmary, several cafeterias, photocopying services, numerous
phone booths, drinking fountains, and an Automated Teller
Machine (ATM). Other similar services may be found along the
commercial strip outside the University.
The Ateneo's campus sets the tone for a very
conducive learning environment-- one that provides a unique,
spirited, learning experience that instills and cultivates in a student the
best education.
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