Don Bosco School (Salesian Sisters), Inc. is one of the 4 basic education schools owned and administered by the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in the Philippines. It started its operations in the School Year 1989-1990.

Unlike other schools owned and operated by FMA, Don Bosco School (Salesian Sisters), Inc. had a very interesting beginning, It started its operations in time to accommodate temporarily the boys from the primary levels of Don Bosco Technical College (DBTC) – Mandaluyong City which belongs to the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) – Fathers and Brothers. DBTC – Mandaluyong gradually phased out their pre-schjool and primary levels in order to use the spaces and the resources allocated to the primary levels in pursuing their educational thrust of further strengthening the post-secondary, technical – industrial courses in Engineering, Technician and Manpower Skills Training and to maintain their Technical Secondary Program, DBTC Mandaluyong also temporarily transferred some of their faculty in the primary level to teach the boys who transferred campus in DBS. Sta. Mesa. The administration and policies applied to this agreement followed the DBTC – Manual for students, faculty and staff. The Salesian Sisters of DBS, Sta. Mesa and the Salesian Fathers from DBTC Mandaluyong worked in close collaboration until April 1993 when the last group of transferees had finished Grade Four and enrolled back at DBTC- Mandaluyong to complete their Intermediate and High School.

Faculty members who were temporarily transferred from DBTC- Mandaluyong were offered a choice as to their preferred employer, whether to continue their services with DBTC or to retire from DBTC and start at Year 1 (May 1993) at DBS. Sta. Mesa with the status of a regular employee of the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco.

In the School Year 1994 1995, fifty-nine girls became the school’s 1st Grade 5 students. This batch moved on to Grade 6 the following year, and became the 1st elementary graduates of Don Bosco School (Salesian Sisters), Inc. last March 1996.

The following school year, 1996-1997, DBS then saw the opening of its doors to the first batch of high school girls. Most of them were from the elementary department of the school. A few girls came in as new students. On March 2000, at the turn of the century and a jubilee year in the Catholic Church, Don Bosco School (Salesian Sisters). Inc. proudly awarded the high school diploma to sixty-two 4th Year High School all-female graduates.

Due to numerous requests from parents and past pupils, the school started allowing its male Grade 4 students to enroll in Grade 5. This started in the School Year 2004 -2005, and when the 1st Grade 5 boys were entering high school in the School Year 2006-2007, the high school department was finally opened to boys.

In the School Year 2010-2011, desirous of still reaching out to many other poor youth and adults in the area. Don Bosco School (Salesian Sisters), Inc. opened the R.E.A.C.H. Ed. ALS, an acronym referring to the Re-kindling A Child’s Hope Through Education Alternative Learning System. The school facilities were made available to the ALS learners, and the first teachers were Salesian Sisters, and volunteer parents, teachers and staff of the school. ALS learners were diligently prepared to obtain a high school diploma either for gainful employment or for the possibility for pursuing tertiary education. It also provided micro-credit and skills training to the learners for employment and livelihood purposes.

In 2013, it was given recognition by the Department of Education for being a Top Performing Alternative Learning System School in the entire National Capital Region for having consistently obtained the highest mean percentage score (MPS) of 96% vis-à-vis the Regional and National MPS of 24.32% and 31.72% respectively in the 2013 DepEd’s National ALS Accreditation and Equivalency (A and E) Test.

Also in the year 2013. Don Bosco School (Salesian Sisters). Inc. joined the ranks of Educational Service Contracting (ESC) certified private high schools in the country. As an ESC school, DBS started receiving government assistance for its high school students, thus making high school education in DBS more accessible to students from low-income families. Licensed high school teachers teaching ESC students also started enjoying a substantial yearly teacher salary subsidy from the government.

The Senior High School department formally opened on June 2016 with its 1st batch of forty-two students enrolled under the three academic tracks: Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS), Accountancy, Business and Marketing (ABM), Science, Technology. Engineering and Math (STEM).

In the School Year 2015-2016, DBS began its preparations for formal application for accreditation with the Philippine Association of Accredited Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU). The Institutional Self-Survey was completed the following school year. On February 13-14, 2017, the pre-accreditation visit took place. After a few months, the school received the approval of its application for PAASCU Accreditation Level 1.

On its 30th year, it was blessed to finally undertake the 1st formal PAASCU accreditation visit on March 18-19. 2019. Two months later, on May 24, 2019, the official results of the successful Level 1 accreditation of the school was joyfully received by the Educating Community.

Another milestone during the 30th year was the school’s 1st successful participation in the 45th Yale Model United Nations Conference held at Yale University, U.S.A. in January 2018. In that conference, 3 Senior High School Bosconians: Alyana Gean M. Jasareno, Mary Therese S. Necio and Jamie Madison P. Beboso, coached by Sr. Josephine R. Garza, FMA. School Principal, bagged the 45th YMUN’s Regional Scholarship for Asia which awarded the DBS delegation with financial assistance to fund their participation in the conference which gathers close to 2.000 young high school leaders from all over the world to discuss and to solve some of the world’s most prominent international issues.

In addition, Jasareno came home with a special award for photography she won at the “Global Citizen of the Arts” competition at YMUN XLV. On March 2018. Maria Laceste. another Grade 12 Bosconian, joined close to 300 students from 41 countries to attend the annual Honerwell Leadership Challenge Academy at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A.

The following school year, 6 more Senior High School Bosconians brought honor to DBS at the World’s Scholar’s Cup, starting from the Regional round and the Global round held in Manila, and at the Tournament of Champions held at Yale University in November 2019. John Derick Langcauon, Michael Joash P. Oliveros. Joshua Allen Ramos, Paolo Miguel Angeles, Ondrej Phylip Bandilla, and Jamie Madison P. Beboso took home a total of 88 medals for DBS which they won in debates, writing, and academic quiz contests.

Langcauon was also chosen to participate in the “Scholars’ Show” where he performed an original musical composition. In January 2020. 6 more Bosconians travelled to the United States to participate in the 46th YMUN and in the 67th Harvard MUN, at Yale and Harvard Universities, respectively. They are Danielle Marie A. Cecillano, Michael Reeno C. Ferrer, Mary Nicole P. Soberano, Julia Pia Y. Berdeguel, Ralph Mathew M. Calucer and Donato Miguel P. Salaya. At the 46th YMUN, the delegation from DBS won the 2nd Social Impact Challenge Award for their proposed Mental Health education project for the urban poor dwellers in Barangay 601 and 602 in Manila.

Salaya also won the “Global Citizen of the Arts Award for Music. Grade 10 Bosconian. Ma. Janiel L. Laceste, also spent a week at the USSRC last March 2020 for a training on real-world, hands-on challenges in coding, computer sciences and astronautics.

At present, although faced with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, DBS is committed to move forward, educating and evangelizing the Bosconians and their families through various distance education modes with its brand of excellent Catholic. Salesian, 21st century education delivered by qualified and committed FMA and lay Salesian educators, always striving for the holistic formation of the young in their care, and inspired by the spirit of St. John Bosco and St. Mary Domenica Mazzarello.