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City of PasaySOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE5.1.2 NutritionBased on the nutritional status of children from 1996-2000 in the city, it appearedthat the city has less incidence of malnourishment compared tp the country ingeneral (Table 5.7). The latter has 9.2% prevalence rate compared to the city’srate of less than 2% in the said period. This shows a generally healthypopulation of schoolchildren and infants.Table 5.7Nutritional Status of Children, 1996-2000YearPrevalence Rate of Severely and ModeratelyUnderweight Children1996 1.1%1997 0.9%1998 0.8%1999 0.7%2000 0.6%Source: City Health Office and Department of Health5.1.3 SanitationTotal garbage generated per the latest data (circa 1998) revealed that the cityproduced a total of 1,600 cubic meters daily while the amount collected is about1,280 m³ daily. Collection is about 2 trips a day. Thus, there is a shortfall incurrent garbage collection by about 320 cubic meters.5.2 Education, Culture and SportsThere are 19 public elementary schools (ES) in the city (Table 5.8). They aredivided into 4 districts, the biggest of which is the South district with about 44% ofthe total enrollment for the year 2000-2001. The biggest elementary school interms of enrollment is the Villamor Air Base ES with about 6,600 students,followed by the Kalayaan ES, both of which are in the South District. In terms ofadequacy of teachers only Maricaban ES and Kalayaan ES exhibits criticalshortage since their ratios are way above the standard of 1:40. Overall, the city’sdivision of city school office projects a total of 107 teachers needed in both publicand private ES. On number of classrooms, per the report of the said office, thereis no need for additional classrooms since current ratio is way below the standardrequirements. On the other hand, there are about 17 private schools in PasayCity offering elementary education (Table 5.9). The largest of these privateelementary schools is St. Mary’s Academy with 34% of the total private ESenrolment.There are about 4 public secondary schools and 1 annex (Table 5.10) in the citywith about 16,600 enrolments. The biggest of which is the Pasay City South inVillamor Air Base. There are 15 schools offering private secondary education(Table 5.11). The largest of them is Jose Abad Santos HS with 21% of theenrolment followed by St. Mary’s, Sta. Clara and Southeastern College. So farbased on the report of the division of city schools, there are about 49 teachersneeded for high school, both in the public and private schools. There are noshortages in classrooms as they remain better than the accepted standard ratioof 1:40.City Planning and Development Office 4The Official Website of Pasay Citywww.pasay.gov.ph