La Salle Green Hills

Also known as: LSGH

Definition

La Salle Green Hills (abbreviation LSGH) is a private Catholic Lasallian school at 343 Ortigas Avenue, Mandaluyong City, in the Greenhills district of Metro Manila, founded in 1959 by the De La Salle Brothers under Brother H. Gabriel Connon FSC primarily to relieve the admission queues at the De La Salle primary school on Taft Avenue, and opened in July 1959 on a six-hectare lot the Brothers had bought in the early 1950s to relocate their novitiate from Baguio. Established first as a grade school — incorporated as a non-stock, non-profit corporation on August 24, 1960 — it added its high school in August 1964 and became, from 1968 when De La Salle High School in Manila closed, the de facto high school of De La Salle University until De La Salle Zobel opened in 1978. (Wikipedia — LSGH, LSGH official website)

Historically an all-boys school, LSGH admitted girls to its senior high school in 2020 and to all levels in 2021, and today operates as an integrated school from pre-nursery through Grade 12 under one principal — including a tuition-free Adult Night High School dating to the mid-1970s and the Alternative Learning System — with an enrollment of about 4,807 students as of July 2025. An authorized International Baccalaureate World School since May 16, 2024, it offers the IB Diploma Programme from school year 2024–2025 and carries Level III PAASCU accreditation; its junior athletic teams, the La Salle Greenies, compete in the NCAA (Philippines) juniors division as the high-school representative of De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde. (Wikipedia — LSGH, LSGH official website, Wikipedia — Benilde, Wikipedia — NCAA)

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Wikipedia	La Salle Green Hills	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Salle_Green_Hills
Wikidata	La Salle Green Hills (Q6465112)	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6465112
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Also Known As

LSGH

Examples and Analogies

A school built to relieve a queue: LSGH exists because mid-century families wanted the De La Salle primary education on Taft more than the campus could hold — the Greenhills school opened in 1959 expressly “to provide more slots,” a founding fact that made expansion its habit from the first grade-school sections onward. (Wikipedia — LSGH)
The novitiate lot that became a campus: the six-hectare Ortigas Avenue property was bought in the early 1950s to move the Brothers’ novitiate down from Baguio; the school grew around the Brothers’ Central House, the first 1959 building — the institution literally raised around its founders’ residence. (Wikipedia — LSGH)
The dome that counts votes: the St. Benilde Gym — the domed 1967 structure by architect Gines Rivera — has served since 1986 as a NAMFREL quick-count venue, a school gym doubling as one of the republic’s instruments of electoral credibility. (Wikipedia — LSGH)
One juniors team, two colleges: the Greenies have carried two institutions’ banners in one league — the junior team of the DLSU Green Archers in the NCAA from 1968 to 1981, then, after a hiatus, the juniors representative of Benilde from 1998 — accumulating twelve NCAA juniors general championships across both eras. (Wikipedia — LSGH, Wikipedia — NCAA)
Verified institutional data:
Founded: 1959, by the De La Salle Brothers led by Brother H. Gabriel Connon FSC; opened July 1959; first Brother-Director Brother Alphonsus Bloemen FSC; incorporated August 24, 1960 (Wikipedia — LSGH)
High school: added August 1964; served as DLSU’s high school 1968–1978, after De La Salle High School Manila closed in 1968 (Wikipedia — LSGH)
Levels today: integrated school, pre-nursery to Grade 12 under one principal; Adult Night High School and Alternative Learning System included (LSGH official website)
Authorization: IB World School status granted May 16, 2024; IB Diploma Programme since SY 2024–2025 (LSGH official website)
Enrollment: about 4,807 students as of July 19, 2025; about 900 faculty (Wikipedia — LSGH)
Athletics: La Salle Greenies (formerly the LSGH Rangers), Green Archer mascot; NCAA juniors membership 1968–1981 and since 1998; twelve juniors general championships (Wikipedia — LSGH, Wikipedia — NCAA)

Usage Scenarios

1. Tracing the Lasallian Network

Education historians use LSGH’s dates to map the Lasallian structure this wiki’s entries on De La Salle University and De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde document: the 1959 founding that extended the Brothers’ basic education beyond Taft, the 1968 transfer of the high school to Greenhills, the 1978 relief when Zobel opened, and the 2006 De La Salle Philippines network that now binds the schools. (Wikipedia — LSGH, Wikipedia — Benilde)

2. Choosing Basic-Education Pathways

Families comparing Philippine basic-education options encounter LSGH as a case of programme stacking: the K-12 structure (grade school, junior high, senior high), the IB Diploma Programme alongside the national curriculum from SY 2024–2025, dual learning modalities for Grades 7–10, and a satellite preschool — BLOCKS — at Greenhills Shopping Center. (LSGH official website)

3. Following School Athletics

Sports writers follow the Greenies in the NCAA (Philippines) juniors division — the league record noting LSGH’s first membership from 1968, withdrawal in 1981, and return in 1998 as Benilde’s high-school representative — the arrangement under which the school’s teams compete as the Benilde–LSGH Greenies. (Wikipedia — NCAA, Wikipedia — Benilde)

4. Studying Schools in Civic Life

Researchers of civic institutions cite two documented episodes: the St. Benilde Gym’s service since 1986 as a NAMFREL election quick-count venue, and the 2008 sheltering of ZTE scandal witness Jun Lozada, who held his press conference at the school’s Chapel of the Divine Child while under the Brothers’ protection. (Wikipedia — LSGH)

Strategies

Use the school’s own channels for current structure: the integrated-school arrangement, IB authorization, and admissions calendar are documented on the official school website, the primary source for present-day facts. (LSGH official website)
Write “formerly all-boys” precisely: the school was all-boys for six decades but has admitted girls at all levels since 2021 — describe co-education as the current state, not a proposal. (Wikipedia — LSGH)
Place the athletics in the right era: the Greenies’ DLSU era (1968–1981) and Benilde era (since 1998) are separate NCAA chapters separated by a seventeen-year gap — do not run them together. (Wikipedia — NCAA)
Contextualize within De La Salle Philippines: LSGH is one district school within the national Lasallian network created in 2006, alongside DLSU and Benilde — institutional statements that treat the three as one hierarchy should follow the network’s actual structure. (Wikipedia — Benilde, Wikipedia — LSGH)

Security and Safety Measures

Accreditation as the accountability instrument: Level III PAASCU/FAAP status — first granted to a Philippine high school for two consecutive seven-year terms, with the grade school the first to reach Level III in 2008 — is the formal quality-assurance mechanism that stands in for external audit in Philippine basic education. (Wikipedia — LSGH)
Civic verification at the gym: the gym’s NAMFREL quick-count role since 1986 reflects the value of neutral, institutionally protected venues for parallel vote tabulation. (Wikipedia — LSGH)
Online and onsite learning tracks: the school’s published dual modalities for Grades 7–10 — onsite and Home-Based Online Learning — formalize continuity planning for basic-education delivery. (LSGH official website)
Verify admissions through official channels: admissions information (the SY 2027–2028 cycle opened October 5, 2026) circulates through the school’s official site and channels, the safe path in a market crowded with recruitment intermediaries. (LSGH official website)
Protecting a shelter tradition: the 2008 Lozada episode — the Brothers sheltering a whistleblower and hosting his press conference in the chapel — documents the school’s stated role as sanctuary, a tradition with its own security implications for institutions that hold it. (Wikipedia — LSGH)

Historical Context

The Brothers bought the Ortigas Avenue land in the early 1950s for their novitiate; the school followed the demand. Opened in July 1959 with two preschool sections and one section each of the first elementary units, under Brother-Director Alphonsus Bloemen, the school was incorporated in 1960 and added its high school in August 1964. The decisive year was 1968, when De La Salle High School on Taft closed and its function moved to Greenhills — the consolidation this wiki’s De La Salle University entry records — making LSGH the university’s effective high school until De La Salle Zobel opened in 1978. The campus acquired its landmarks through the same decades: the Central House of 1959, the domed St. Benilde Gym of 1967, and later the Br. Rafael Donato FSC Center for the Performing Arts, the chapels including the Chapel of the Divine Child, and the Adult Night High School for working students from the mid-1970s. (Wikipedia — LSGH)

The athletics record parallels the institutional one. The Greenies — renamed from the LSGH Rangers — entered the NCAA juniors in 1968 as the DLSU Green Archers’ high-school team, withdrew with DLSU’s NCAA exit era in 1981, and returned in 1998 when the NCAA accepted Benilde’s membership with LSGH’s athletes as its high-school representatives, the Benilde–LSGH Greenies arrangement that continues; the school counts twelve NCAA juniors general championships across both eras, and its AirForce streetdance squad has won multiple national dance titles. (Wikipedia — LSGH, Wikipedia — NCAA, Wikipedia — Benilde)

The recent record is one of programme expansion: the golden jubilee of 2009 and the Lasallian centennial participation of 2011; the PAASCU Level III accreditations; co-education, with girls admitted to senior high in 2020 and to all levels in 2021; IB World School authorization on May 16, 2024 and the Diploma Programme from SY 2024–2025; the BLOCKS satellite preschool at Greenhills Shopping Center; and a planned senior high, IB, and performing-arts building. The alumni roll spans public life — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. among its grade-school graduates of 1970, alongside the broadcaster Mike Enriquez, tycoon Enrique Razon Jr., bowler Paeng Nepomuceno, lawyer Chel Diokno, and the musicians Gary Valenciano and Ogie Alcasid. (Wikipedia — LSGH, LSGH official website)

Challenges and Controversies

From All-Boys to Co-Education

The 2020–2021 admission of girls ended six decades of a single-sex identity — a transition debated among alumni communities as such transitions generally are, and now simply the school’s documented state; the university it seeded, DLSU, had made the same move in 1973. (Wikipedia — LSGH)

The Juniors-Team Arrangement

The NCAA record notes a fine point of the LSGH–Benilde relationship: the two schools are not directly connected — both are administered by the Lasallian Brothers, which is why Benilde’s jerseys read “St. Benilde” rather than “La Salle.” The Greenies therefore serve as Benilde’s juniors representative by network kinship rather than institutional ownership — an arrangement fans periodically re-explain. (Wikipedia — NCAA)

The School in a Political Storm

The 2008 Lozada episode — the Brothers sheltering the ZTE scandal witness and hosting his press conference at the Chapel of the Divine Child — placed the school inside a national political controversy; it is documented as the school’s most consequential civic intervention, undertaken as institutional sanctuary rather than as partisanship. (Wikipedia — LSGH)