Colegio San Agustin Makati is a leading Catholic integrated basic education school that provides young men and women high quality education in the Augustinian tradition.
The institution is a diverse school community that welcomes local and international students from a wide range of backgrounds. The unique presence of international students offers opportunities for global citizenship, mutual understanding, and lifelong friendship.
The nurturing, supportive, and safe community situated in a beautiful natural environment is committed to enhance learning through vibrant campus life.
Aside from a rich academic experience, learners have varied opportunities to hone their God-given talents and interests through the school’s comprehensive program in sports and performing arts – thus true to school’s motto: Virtue and Science.
HISTORY OF COLEGIO SAN AGUSTIN MAKATI
Colegio San Agustin Makati is a basic education school, run by the Order of St. Augustine (OSA), a religious order which traces its origins back to its illustrious founder, St. Augustine.
Called Augustinians, the members of this Order are in over forty countries today with the educational institutions around the world. Recognized pioneers of Christianity in the Philippines, the Augustinians under Fray Andres de Urdaneta first set foot in its shores in 1565 and are now engaged in parish, missionary, and educational work.
After over four hundred years of missionary and educational work, the Augustinians through their superior, Fr. Santos Abia, OSA, had a school constructed in Dasmariñas Village, Makati in 1969 to “impart religious instruction along with the official educational programs.” That was Colegio San Agustin Makati
THE BEGINNINGS
Auxiliary Bishop Bienvenido Lopez, D.D., blessed the cornerstone of the first CSA building on September 1 1968. Ten months later, on 7 July 1969, the school opened its doors to the first enrollees both male and female numbering 652. On 28 August 1969, Rufino Cardinal Santos blessed the first buildings constructed by well-known Architect Manuel Mañosa, Jr. — the Administration Building which served as the priests’ residence, and the Grade School Building, Phase 1, which temporarily housed kindergarten, preparatory, elementary, and high school levels.
At the start, only two priests, Frs. Angel Rodriquez, OSA and Horacio Rodriguez, OSA, ran the school with the help of twenty-four lady teachers. The levels offered then were kindergarten, preparatory, grades one to six, first and second year of high school. The addition of grade seven, third, and fourth year high school came in subsequent years. Today, there are nine Augustinian priests and nearly four hundred employees in CSA Makati. Classes from nursery to high school serve a clientele of more or less 5,600 students.
CSA TODAY
A globally-globally-attuned and progressive administration showing concern and service for all, a dedicated and innovative faculty and staff with a string commitment to serve, a dynamic and responsive student community with a heart for the poor and the needy and a mind for the constant pursuit of truth and justice, and a school community geared up to the challenges of the 21st century education— these make up Colegio San Agustin Makati, a school distinguished, not only by its drive towards academic excellence but also by its desire to reach out and evangelize others for God’s greater honor and glory.