Ateneo Grade School is the school of the Ateneo de Manila educational system that provides elementary education (Kinder and Grades 1 to 6). Its immediate aim is to provide learning tools, skills, habits, attitudes and values that will be needed by the students in pursuing studies in Junior and Senior High School and in the tertiary levels, and beyond.

 

Ateneo provides a well-balanced program of activities and experiences to develop academic competence and a commitment to Christian values. It strives to form its students into young Catholic Christian men who will become leaders in the service of God and mankind.

 

Its first rector was Fr. Jose Fernandez Cuevas, then Superior of the Society of Jesus in the Philippine Province.

Grade School News

Miguel Targarda wins silver in PH round of Thailand Math Olympiad

Ateneo de Manila Grade School mathletes Miguel Tagarda (2-Yakal) and Koko Dela Cruz (4-Lapu-Lapu) earned medal awards during the Philippines Heat Round of the Thailand...

Miguel Tagarda wins gold in BBB math Olympiad PH heat round

Ateneo de Manila Grade School mathlete Miguel Tagarda (2-Yakal) won a 1st prize/gold award in the primary 2 division of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Area...

Fr Bobby Yap's Christmas message to the Ateneo community (Dec 2021)

It is said that the first ever Christmas was celebrated in Rome on December 25th. This coincided with the Roman celebration of the winter solstice - that time of the year when the night was at its longest and darkest, when the northern hemisphere has tilted farthest away from the sun.

Paco Javier wins silver for PH in Math tilt's Autumn Round

Ateneo de Manila Grade School mathletes Paco Javier (5-Ati) and AJ Capito (6-Pignatelli) won medal awards in the Mathematics Without Borders (MWB) Autumn Round 2021...

Youth ambassador Sylar Alcantara awarded back-to-back silver in World Virtual Sports Festival

Ateneo de Manila Grade School student athlete Sylar Alcantara (4-Dagohoy) has again won a silver medal for the Philippines in the United Through Sports (UTS)...

Ateneo de Manila to return to campus starting January 2022

After almost two years, Ateneo de Manila University will gradually return to onsite classes starting January 2022. The January pilot run return to face-to-face classes...