TL;DR — Darwin International School's website is offline — the domain returns a hosting suspension notice, not the school. So there is no publicly documented admission process, no calendar and no fee schedule right now. Everything runs through (044) 815 8055 or a campus visit. This guide covers what is actually verifiable, the multi-campus question that decides your commute, and the one thing about the school's name that is worth clarifying before you apply.
Darwin International School is a private basic education school in Malolos, Bulacan, established in 2003. It runs preschool through senior high school and operates from several campuses around the city, including one in Longos. Contacts and location are on our Darwin International School listing, and the rest of the city is on our Malolos schools page.
The website situation
We checked darwininternationalschool.org.ph on both http and https, with and without the www prefix, using a normal browser user agent. Every request returns a hosting account suspension notice rather than the school's site. That was the state as of the start of September 2026.
A suspension is almost always a billing or hosting-account issue, and it says nothing about whether the school is operating. But the practical consequence for a parent is real: there is no published admission requirement list, no application form, no calendar and no fee schedule to work from. The school has a social media presence, and there are third-party directory pages carrying its name, but we do not treat directory listings as sources for requirements or fees — they go stale and nobody at the school is accountable for them.
So this guide does two things: it states what is verifiable, and it gives you the framework and the question list to run a single productive phone call instead of three vague ones.
Contact
- Phone: (044) 815 8055
- Location: Malolos, Bulacan, with campuses around the city including Longos
Call before you travel. With a multi-campus school, the office handling admission for preschool is often not the office handling senior high, and turning up at the wrong gate costs a morning.
One practical knock-on: if the school ran email on that same domain, those addresses are likely down too. Assume the phone number is the only reliable channel until someone at the school tells you otherwise, and do not send documents to an address you found on a directory site and cannot confirm.
The one thing to clarify about the name
Our record has Darwin International School running the DepEd K to 12 curriculum, not the International Baccalaureate, not a British curriculum and not an American one.
This is a common and entirely legitimate naming pattern among Philippine private schools — "international" signals an internationally oriented outlook, English-medium instruction and university-preparation ambitions, rather than a foreign curriculum and foreign accreditation. But the two things cost very different amounts and lead to different places, and families sometimes assume the second when a school means the first.
If what you actually need is a foreign curriculum — because of an overseas posting, a planned move, or a specific university system — read our guide to international schools in the Philippines to see what that category really involves, and confirm Darwin's curriculum in writing before you commit.
What is claimed, and what we could verify
Our record notes a reputation built on National Achievement Test and National Career Assessment Examination results, with the school regularly placing among the top-performing schools in Bulacan and Region III, and reporting that nearly all of its senior high graduates go on to universities like UP, Ateneo de Manila, De La Salle, UST and Mapua.
Treat that as the school's own positioning. We could not verify it against a working official source, because there is no working official source at the moment. If those results are your reason for applying, ask for them directly and specifically: which year, which cohort, what the placement rate is based on, and whether "goes on to" means admitted or enrolled. A school confident in its numbers will hand them over.
Documents to prepare
Since nothing is published, prepare the set every DepEd-recognised private school in the Philippines asks for. Having it ready turns a two-visit process into one.
- Form 138 (report card) for the most recent school year completed
- Form 137 (permanent record), requested from the previous school
- PSA birth certificate, original plus photocopies
- Certificate of Good Moral Character, typically required from around Grade 4 upward
- ID photos, usually 1x1 or 2x2 with a white background, two to four copies
- Learner Reference Number (LRN), which appears on the report card
- For Grade 11 applicants: the Junior High School Completion Certificate, plus any ESC certificate or QVR voucher certificate you hold
Our guide to private school enrolment requirements walks through how each document is used and which one usually causes the delay.
The questions that decide the application
Which campus, for which level? This is first because it determines the commute for the next several years. Ask which levels run at which campus, whether that allocation changes between years, and whether a child who starts at one campus moves to another as they progress.
Money, in full. The tuition figure, the miscellaneous fees, and the other fees as separate lines for the level you are applying to. Whether there is an instalment scheme and how many payments. What is charged at reservation and whether it is deductible. What sits outside the assessment entirely — books, uniforms, ID, PE uniform, field trips, graduation fees. Ask for the whole picture, because the tuition line alone routinely understates a private school year by a wide margin.
The ESC and the voucher. Does the school hold ESC slots for junior high in the year you are applying, and how many remain? For Grade 11, does it accept the SHS voucher, and what is the balance after the voucher applies? These two programmes are the difference between affordable and not for a large share of families — see our ESC grant guide and SHS voucher program guide.
Senior high strands. Which strands actually open this year, as opposed to which the school is authorised to offer? A strand can be listed and still not run if enrolment is thin, and that is the most common late surprise for Grade 11 families.
The process itself. Is there an entrance or placement test, and when? Is there a parent interview? What is the application fee and is it refundable? When do applications open and close?
The classroom. Average class size per level, number of sections per grade, and whether the school runs a single shift.
Verify the permits yourself
When a school's own site is unreachable, the government paperwork is the substitute, and you are entitled to see it.
Ask for the DepEd government permit or recognition number for each level you are applying to — preschool, elementary, junior high and senior high are permitted separately, and a school can be recognised for one and only permitted for another. Ask for the DepEd school ID, the six-digit number every recognised school carries in the Basic Education Information System. For senior high, ask which strands the permit actually covers, since that is issued strand by strand.
A school with its paperwork in order will produce these without hesitation, usually as framed certificates on an office wall. Our record does not carry a DepEd permit number for Darwin, which is a gap in our data rather than a finding about the school — but it does mean the question is worth asking directly rather than assuming.
Who it suits
On what is verifiable, Darwin International School is a mid-priced, academically ambitious private school serving Malolos and the surrounding parts of Bulacan, running the national curriculum from preschool through Grade 12 across multiple sites in one city. Families who want a full K to 12 ladder without changing institutions, and who value test-result track record, are the natural fit.
Families who need everything documented before committing will find this a difficult school to evaluate from a distance while the site is down. That is not a verdict on the teaching — a website has never taught anyone — but it does mean the campus visit is not optional here. Go, ask the list above, and get the fee assessment in writing.
Sources
- SchoolFinderPH directory record for Darwin International School, Malolos
- Checked and found unavailable: https://darwininternationalschool.org.ph/ returns a hosting account suspension notice (verified on http and https, with and without www, using a standard browser user agent, September 2026)
