1. Per DECS Order No. 26, s. 1994, public and private schools are authorized to evaluate the school records of transferees from foreign schools or Philippine schools abroad for purposes of placement in the appropriate grade or year level.
   
   
2. It is expected that only those students transferring from Philippine schools abroad operating under DECS permit shall be accepted on equal terms as those students from the DECS-recognized schools in the country. The list of Philippine schools abroad operating under DECS permit is in the inclosure to this Order.
   
   
3. It is reiterated that per DECS Order No. 19, s. 1996, transferees from non-DECS recognized Philippine schools must take a validating examination to be administered by the National Educational Testing and Research Center (NETRC), this Department, for grade/year level placement before they can be admitted in any school in the country.
   
   
4. Immediate dissemination of and strict compliance with this Order is directed.

Adopted: 12 April 1999

(SGD.) ANDREW GONZALEZ, FSC
Secretary
PHILIPPINE SCHOOLS ABROAD OPERATING UNDER DECS PERMIT
Saudi Arabia
1. International Philippine School in Riyadh
2. International Philippine School in Jeddah
3. International Philippine School in Alkhobar
4. Philippine Community School in Alkhobar

Bahrain
5. Philippine School in Bahrain

United Arab Emirates
6. PISCO Private School
7. Pioneers Modern School
8. United International Private School
9. Pioneers International Private School
10. Philippine National School
11. The New Filipino Private School

Oman
12. Philippine School in Oman

Qatar
13. Philippine School in Doha

Libya
14. Philippine Community School in Tripoli

China
15. Manila Xiamen International School