TL;DR: St. Paul College of Makati is a Paulinian Catholic school in Poblacion offering Early Years through Grade 12, with STEM, ABM, HUMSS and GAS in senior high, and PAASCU Level II accreditation for Basic Education valid to May 2029. The catch: the school has no working website. Its domain returns a hosting suspension page, and the surviving old site has an empty admission page dated 2012. That means no published requirements, no published fees and no published enrollment calendar. Everything below separates what is verifiable from what you have to ask for.
Start with the honest problem
Most admission guides begin with a requirements checklist copied off the school's site. That is not possible here, and pretending otherwise would be the whole failure mode this guide exists to avoid.
Checked in September 2026:
| Source | Status |
|---|---|
| spcmakati.edu.ph | Resolves, then redirects to a hosting suspension page |
| sites.google.com/spcmakati.edu.ph | A PAASCU self-survey document site — school profile, area standards, ratings summary. No admissions content. |
| spcmakati.weebly.com | Online but frozen. Copyright 2012. The Admission page loads with no content on it at all. |
| Facebook page | Active, and the link PAASCU itself lists for the school |
So: the school exists, is operating, and holds a current accreditation. It simply has no public admissions channel on the open web. Practically, that means the landline and the Facebook page are your entry points, and it means you should treat every tuition figure you find on an aggregator site as unverified. Nobody is publishing those numbers.
What is actually confirmed
Who runs it. The Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres. The school opened in 1942 when three SPC sisters started a school near Saints Peter and Paul Parish Church at the parish priest's request, originally as Makati Catholic School. It became Saint Paul School of Makati in 1976 and St. Paul College of Makati in 2002.
What it offers. Early Years (kindergarten), grade school, junior high and senior high. Despite "College" in the name, there is no college division — a pattern shared by several Paulinian basic education schools. Senior high runs four academic strands: STEM, ABM, HUMSS and GAS.
Accreditation. PAASCU lists St. Paul College of Makati with Level II accreditation for Basic Education, first accredited May 2014, valid to May 2029. That is the single most useful verifiable quality signal available for this school, and it is worth understanding what it means before you weigh it.
Campus. Seven named buildings on the D.M. Rivera Street site, including science laboratories, two gymnasiums, a library, computer laboratories, a swimming pool, a speech laboratory, and the five-storey Our Lady of Chartres Building built for Grades 7 to 12.
What PAASCU Level II actually buys you
Parents often read accreditation as a marketing badge. It is more concrete than that.
A school with a bare DepEd permit has cleared the minimum legal requirement to operate. A PAASCU-accredited school has voluntarily gone through an external survey of its instruction, faculty, library, laboratories, student services and administration, and has been re-surveyed to keep the status. Level II means the school passed the formal survey and holds accreditation for a fixed term rather than a provisional one.
Two practical consequences. First, accredited private schools generally have smoother credential transfers when a family relocates. Second, the survey documents themselves are often the most detailed public description of a school's programme that exists, which is exactly the case here — the school's Google Sites presence is its PAASCU self-survey, organised into area standards covering leadership, quality assurance, resources, teaching and learning, student services, external relations, research and results.
If you want to compare that against other options in the city, our best private schools in Makati roundup and the full Makati school directory are the places to start.
Make sure you are looking at the right St. Paul
This trips people up more than it should, and with no website to anchor on it is easy to end up reading another school's requirements.
PAASCU's own member database lists at least thirteen Paulinian institutions in the Philippines, including St. Paul College Pasig, St. Paul College of Parañaque, St. Paul College of Bocaue, St. Paul College Balayan, St. Paul College of Ilocos Sur, St. Paul College Island Park, and the St. Paul universities in Manila, Quezon City, Dumaguete, Surigao and San Miguel. They share a congregation, a name pattern and a visual identity. They do not share fee schedules, entrance tests, calendars or grade levels.
Several of the others do run college divisions and do publish admission pages, which is precisely how a parent ends up planning around the wrong requirements. If a page you are reading talks about college programmes, a tertiary entrance exam or a campus in another city, you are on a sibling school's site. Check the address: the Makati school is on D.M. Rivera Street in Poblacion, and only that one.
What admission probably looks like, and why you should verify it
Since the school publishes nothing, the responsible thing is to describe the general shape of private Catholic school admission in Metro Manila and label it as exactly that — a starting point for your questions, not a checklist from SPCM.
Almost every private basic education school in NCR will ask for some combination of:
- PSA birth certificate, original and photocopy
- Certificate of baptism, for Catholic schools
- The latest report card (Form 138) and, on enrollment, the permanent record (Form 137)
- A certificate of good moral character from the previous school
- 2x2 ID photos
- An entrance or placement assessment, plus an interview for the student, and often for the parents
For Grade 11 applicants, the senior high voucher programme adds its own paperwork, which is worth reading up on in our senior high school scholarships guide before you apply, because it can change what you pay by tens of thousands of pesos a year.
None of that is sourced from St. Paul College of Makati. Treat it as the list of things to confirm on your first call.
The questions that actually matter here
Because so little is public, your first phone call has to do more work than it normally would. Ask for:
- The full fee schedule for your child's level, in writing. Tuition, miscellaneous, books, uniform, and any one-time entrance or reservation fee. Ask whether the figure is annual, per term, or a monthly plan, and what the early-payment discount is.
- Whether the strand you want is actually opening. A school running four academic strands does not necessarily run all four every year. Small strand cohorts get merged or dropped.
- This year's admission calendar. Testing dates, deadlines and the reservation cut-off. Do not plan around the April schedule on the old Weebly site.
- Whether the school accepts ESC grantees for junior high and voucher recipients for senior high. This is the single biggest lever on cost.
- Class size per level, and how it has moved over the last three years.
- Current DepEd government recognition per level, separate from the PAASCU status.
- How they will send you documents. With no website and no online portal on record, ask whether forms come by email or must be collected at the campus.
Who this school suits
An academic-track family. Four strands, all academic, no TVL or sports track, a campus built around laboratories and a speech lab, and a congregation with a long track record in girls' and coeducational Catholic schooling. If your child is heading to a university course, that is a fit.
It suits families less well if you need the convenience of an online enrollment portal, published fees you can budget against a year in advance, or a school with its own college division so the student never has to transfer at Grade 12. For the last of those, comparing against schools that publish more openly is worth the effort — Makati Hope Christian School is a useful contrast in the same city, and our guide to Catholic school tuition in Manila gives a sense of where fees in this segment tend to land.
Before you commit, walk the campus. With this little published, the visit is doing more of the work than usual: look at the labs, ask to see a class in session, and ask current parents in the car park what the year actually costs.
Sources
- PAASCU — St. Paul College of Makati member school record (paascu.org.ph/st-paul-college-of-makati/)
- PAASCU — Member Database (paascu.org.ph/member-database/)
- sites.google.com/spcmakati.edu.ph — St. Paul College of Makati PAASCU self-survey site
- spcmakati.weebly.com — archived school site, including the empty Admission page
- spcmakati.edu.ph — checked September 2026, returns a hosting suspension page
- SchoolFinderPH directory record for St. Paul College of Makati
