Central Philippine University Junior High School, also referred to as CPU Junior High School or CPU JHS, is a private high school located in Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines, constituting as one of the
CPU Junior High School Building
The CPU Junior High School canteen and lounge.
The Junior High School Science Building completed in 2005.
Central Philippine University is a private Protestant research university in Iloilo City, Philippines. Established in 1905 through a grant from the American industrialist and philanthropist John D. Ro
Central Philippine University Junior High School
…as CPU Junior High School or CPU JHS, is a private high school located in Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines, constituting as one of the academic units of Central Philippine University. Central Philippine Junior High School at present maintains its Level III accreditation status, the first high school in the Western Visayas to attain…
John D. Rockefeller, an American industrialist, philanthropist, and devout Baptist is Central's main benefactor. His benevolent grant to the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society for the purpose of establishing schools that will train ministers and other Christian workers and for boys in the Philippines, resulted to the founding of Central Philippine University.
The Jaro Evangelical Church was founded in 1900 by American Baptist Missionaries as "the first Baptist church in the Philippines" and the "first Protestant church outside Manila". It has been closely associated with Central, acting as a catalyst for its founding in 1905. Before the creation of the CPU Church, the early students of the university would go to this church every Sunday to worship.
The Reverend William Valentine, the founder and first president of Central.
The Central Philippine University–Iloilo Mission Hospital Main Hall in its new location in 1931 in the City of Jaro (now a present district of Iloilo City). Founded in 1901 by Presbyterian missionary doctor Joseph Andrew Hall, it is the first American and Protestant hospital in the Philippines.