Open High School Program Handbook

The OHSP is an alternative mode of secondary education that uses distance learning. It caters to learners who are unable to attend the regular class program due to physical impairment, work, financial difficulties, distance of home to school, and other justifiable and legitimate reasons.

The program, therefore, is in consonance with the Education for All (EFA) goal of making every Filipino functionally literate by 2015. Its philosophy is based on the provision of Batasang Pangbansa (BP) 232 or the Education Act of 1982 "The state shall provide the right of every individual to relevant quality education regardless of sex, age, creed, socioeconomic status, physical and mental conditions, racial or ethnic origin, political and other affiliation."

Since distance learning is its mains feature, the program requires that the learner is capable of managing his/her learning.