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Private school in Metro Manila, Philippines

La Salle Green Hills ("LSGH") is a private Catholic school run by the Philippine District of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Ortigas Avenue, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. It was established in 1959 by the De La Salle Brothers led by Brother H. Gabriel Connon, FSC primarily to provide more slots to students wishing to avail of the then very popular De La Salle primary education offered in Taft Avenue, Manila. La Salle Green Hills offers primary and secondary education. It is a member of the De La Salle Philippines, the association of all Lasallian institutions in the Philippines, namely De La Salle University in Manila (1911), De La Salle Araneta University in Malabon (1946), University of St. La Salle in Bacolod (1952), and the La Salle Academy in Iligan (1958). La Salle Green Hills was given a clean seven year accreditation by the PAASCU in 1991 and 1998, thus making it the first high school institution in the Philippines with this distinction. Both Grade School and High School departments of La Salle Green Hills were awarded Level III accreditation—the highest possible level—by the PAASCU and FAAP.

In the Early 1950s, the Brothers of De La Salle College Manila led by Brother H. Gabriel Connon FSC, acquired a six hectare lot on Ortigas Avenue in Mandaluyong to relocate the De La Salle Novitiate from Baguio and to accommodate increasing requests for admission to the then De La Salle Grade School on Taft Avenue, Manila.) opened its door to two preschool level sections and one section each for elementary school units one and two. Its first Brother Director was Brother Alphonsus Bloemen FSC who first came to teach in De La Salle College in Manila in 1940. On August 24, 1960, La Salle Green Hills, Inc. was registered as non stock, non profit corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In August 1964, the high school was established. In 1968, when the De La Salle High School – Manila was made defunct, graduates of the De La Salle Grade School were transferred to the La Salle Green Hills High School, making La Salle Green Hills the high school of De La Salle University – Manila, until the establishment of the co educational De La Salle Santiago Zobel School in 1978. The De La Salle Grade School – Manila was phased out in 1984, after which its grade school graduates were given an option to study either at LSGH (for northern and central Metro Manila residents) or at De La Salle Zobel in Ayala Alabang Village (for southern Metro Manila residents). La Salle Green Hills was first accredited by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities or PAASCU in 1971 and was given a three year accrediting grant. La Salle Green Hills received three year accreditations again in by 1974 and 1977. After which, La Salle Green Hills was given a better five year grant in 1982 and 1987 after two accrediting visits. Accrediting visits in 1991 and 1998 were given seven year accreditations making it the first and only high school in the Philippines to be granted two seven year accreditations. In June 2008, the La Salle Green Hills Grade School was granted a Level III accreditation by PAASCU, making it the first and only school in the Philippines certified as such. And in late 2008, the High School was granted Level III accreditation from the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines, the highest accreditation given to any basic education institution in the Philippines. On June 8, 2009, La Salle Green Hills celebrated its golden jubilee, and in 2011 celebrated together with the rest of the De La Salle schools in the Philippines the centennial celebration of the De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines. In March 2021, the school announced that it will begin admitting female students for all levels.

The La Salle Green Hills Grade School (LSGH GS) is a Catholic elementary school. It offers education for students from the kindergarten level to the seventh grade. Its facilities and classrooms are located within the St. Joseph the Worker Building (Kindergarten and Grade 1), St. Brother Miguel Febres Cordero FSC building (Grade 2 to Grade 5), and the St. La Salle building (Grade 6). The Grade School shares the athletic facilities with the High School. The Grade School has the distinction of being the first grade school in the country to receive a Level III accreditation from the PAASCU.

The La Salle Green Hills High School (LSGH HS) is a Catholic secondary school that is divided into the Junior High School (Grades 7–10) and the Senior High School (Grades 11 and 12). Its Junior High School is located within the St. Brother Mutien Marie FSC building aside from the Arts and Technology classrooms which are located at the St. Benilde Gym's mezzanine, and the top floors of the St. Joseph the Worker building and Central House. Its Senior High School is located within the St. Brother Arnold Reche FSC and also houses related facilities. Previously an exclusive all boys' school, its Senior High School opened to female students in 2020, then eventually to all levels in 2021. The majority of graduates from the LSGH HS move on to study college at De La Salle University Manila, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde also in Manila, University of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomas, and Ateneo de Manila University.

The school is situated on a six hectare campus fronting Ortigas Avenue, across from Wack Wack Village and golf course.

Probably the most well known building on the school grounds, construction of the dome shaped structure began in 1967. Mr. Gines Rivera is the building's architect. It houses the main basketball courts on the second floor and the cafeteria on the ground floor. The mezzanine houses most of the Computer and Arts & Technology, Drafting and Culinary Arts classrooms of the La Salle Green Hills High School. Aside from sports, the main gym area is also used for graduations, community masses, concerts, and other events. Since 1986, it has been used as the venue for the presidential election ballot counting by NAMFREL. Students under Grade 7 are not allowed to enter during recess or lunch.

St. Benilde Gym

The St. Benilde Gymnasium, although called a gym, does not house an actual gym (unlike the one in the Father Martinez Activity Center, or FMAC), Taekwondo room, and a wall climbing facility. Lower Football Field (Br. Gilbert Cotter Field)

La Salle Green Hills also has a full sized football field, named after Brother Gilbert Cotter FSC, an American De La Salle Brother who used to handle LSGH and was closely tied to football. This is where football matches are held (mostly by the school's varsity team) as well as field demonstrations in school festivities. Enrique K. Razon, Jr. and Batch 1978 Activity Center

The Enrique Razon Activity Center (ERAC) is situated at the upper field. It is designed to suit a wide range of sports activities (e. g., basketball, volleyball, tennis, etc.) and other co curricular activities/assemblies. Other facilities situated in the Upper Field include the Track Oval, Baseball Diamond, Lawn Tennis Court, Swimming pool, Wall climbing facility, Table Tennis room and a Golf Driving Cage.

The Retreat House is situated behind the Kinder One building. It can house two simultaneous class recollections. The two story building has identical facilities on both floors: Conference room which can be converted to a chapel, dining hall, kitchen, dormitory, showers, and lavatories. The dormitories are furnished with bunk beds which can accommodate a class of about 55 (full) and is air conditioned.

LSGH holds plays, concerts and activity days in each grade level (where students recite short stories and poems, and give speeches in English and Filipino). Most of these events are held at the now Bro. Rafael Donato Center for the Performing Arts, or in the old St. Joseph's Auditorium (the name of the Bro. Donato Center before renovation). La Salle Green Hills has clubs for those who want to partake in plays, the Junior Actor's Guild (JAG) in the Grade School and the Cue Drama Club in High School. These clubs hold about 3 plays per year and are held in the Bro. Donato Center.

The school is also home to The Kundirana, which is a music ministry composed of about 8–15 high school students in their junior or senior year. The Kundirana name is a combination of 2 forms of traditional Filipino music the Kundiman, and the Harana. The LSGH Kundirana has performed several renowned concerts since its establishment in the 1970s. The Kundirana is the most famous high school singing group in the Philippines. Notable alumni include award winning Filipino musical artists such as notable Lasallians Gary Valenciano, Ogie Alcasid, Randy Santiago, Dingdong Avanzado, Rannie Raymundo, Juan Miguel Salvador, Louie Ocampo, Mel Villena, Tats Faustino, Mikoy Morales, and several notable music industry personalities of the Philippines. The group performs several concerts aiming to raise funds to contribute to various Philippine charities such as the Bahay Pag Asa, and several other charities spearheaded by the De La Salle Christian Brothers. The group celebrated its 40th anniversary in November 2011 with a grand reunion concert held at CCP led by Ogie Alcasid entitled: KUNDIRANA KWARENTA NA: the men, the music, the ministry featuring several alumni, and the then current batch, Kundirana 2012.

LSGH Airforce is the school's representatives for the field of Streetdance. Airforce consists of students from the LSGH High School, selected through tryouts. They reached and placed first in the finals of the Skechers Streetdance Battle Year 6 and Year 8. Airforce won championships in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, in the National Dance Championship "Senior Mixed Hip Hop Division", becoming the first team to do so.

In the 1980s, the LSGH HS dissolved its Debate and Argumentation elective. Hence, there came increasing demand for students interested in the field. Therefore, the school established the Debate Club and the Forensics Guild. The two organizations were independent from each other and used different rooms for training. The Forensics Guild used the then Saint Joseph's Auditorium while the Debate Club used the High School's Maria Pilapil Hall. Both competed in various competitions in Metro Manila, sometimes meeting each other. Most prominent during this period was the Volvo Voice of Democracy. (This was the stage where LSGH alumnus, Hilarion "Ronnie" Henares III, won the prestigious competition in 1967 and where another alumnus, Christian Earl Castañeda, was second runner up in 2009) However, since SY 2008–2009, LSGH's Student Affairs Central Body took over participation in this contest. After 2004, the school felt a need to merge both organizations. This was because the members were at a decline and they both had the same objectives and purpose. So they established Club Rhetorique. At the same time they created the Rhetoric elective for sophomore students. Feeling the need for a more competitive debate institution, LSGH HS's English Department and students from De La Salle College of Saint Benilde established the La Salle Debate Team (LSDT) in the SY 2005–2006. The team has autonomy from rules of normal clubs and societies in LSGH and is officially under the Principal's Office, rather than under the Student Activities Coordinator. The LSDT trained under members of the DLS CSB debate society from 2005 to 2007 and then under members of the De La Salle University debate society from 2008 to today. The LSDT has gone on to be Quarter finalists at the 2008 National Asians High School Debate Championship won the Ana Alano Cup at the 2008 and 2012 Philippine Schools Debate Championship and semi finalist in the same tournament in 2009 and 2010, and quarter finalist in 2011 as well as advanced to the semi finals of the Asian Schools Debate Championship

The LSGH Adult Night High School (ANHS) has a history dating back to the mid 1970s when it was established by the Christian Brothers to provide tuition free, quality Lasallian education to the marginalized.

+NameBatchKnown forGerardo Ablaza Jr. DLSC GS 1967, LSGH HS 1971Entrepreneur, former CEO of Globe Telecom, CEO of Manila Water CompanyEnrique Razon JrLSGH GS 1974, LSGH HS 78Multi Billionaire Tycoon, CEO of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. Gary Valenciano LSGH GS 1978, LSGH HS 82dancer, record artist, songwriter, TV host, Movie actorGabriel Valencianosongwriter, singer, dancer, TV host, actorOgie Alcasid LSGH GS 81, LSGH HS 85songwriter, singer, TV host, Movie comedian Paeng NepomucenoLSGH HS 77The only Filipino Guinness Book Record Holder in Bowling in 3 categories, World Champion BowlerRobert Ace BarberspoliticianFrancis "Kiko" Pangilinan LSGH HS 81politician, senatorRico Hizon LSGH GS 1980, LSGH HS 1984BBC World News Multi awarded Business Analyst and Anchor Francis Zamora LSGH GS 1991, LSGH HS 1995Mayor of San Juan, Metro Manila and Former UAAP champion of the DLSU Green ArcherEmilio Ramon Ejercito LSGH GS 78, LSGH HS 81former Governor of Laguna Province and movie actorJustin Marc S. B. ChipecoLSGH HS 1992former Congressman of the 2nd District of Laguna, incumbent mayor of CalambaMike EnriquezDLS GS 1964, LSGH HS 1968multi awarded newscaster/ news show host, Vice President of GMA NetworkChel Diokno LSGH GS 1974, LSGH HS 1978lawyer, law professor, Dean of the DLSU College of LawDingdong Avanzado LSGH GS 1981, LSGH HS 1985singer, songwriter, actor, TV hostGian MagdangalLSGH HS 1999singerEdu ManzanoLSGH DLSU 1979Former Vice Mayor of Makati City, Multi awarded movie actor, TV talk show host, comedian, commercial endorser, and fashion brand modelBongbong MarcosLSGH GS 1970 The first La Salle alumnus President of the Philippines17th President of the Philippines, former Senator, former Congressman, and former GovernorLouie Ocampo LSGH HS 1977Notable composer, musical director, jingle writerRaymart Santiagoactor, TV host, movie directorRalph Recto LSGH HS 82politician/senatorRandy Santiago LSGH HS 79actor, comedian, singer, songwriter, television hostMark LevisteLSGH HS 1995politician, Vice Governor of BatangasAJ PerezLSGH GS 2007, LSGH HS 2011 actorAlbie CasiñoLSGH GS 2007, LSGH HS 2011actorNix Nolledo LSGH GS 1990, LSGH HS 1994Chairman and President of Xurpas Inc. Stephen FernandezLSGH GS 1981, LSGH HS 1985Olympic Medalist (Taekwondo) Champion and DLS CSB Sports Director Enzo Pinedadancer, actor, TV host, singerKobe ParasFormer LSGH basketball player and ad modelAndre Parasad model, actor, comedian, TV host, and LSGH basketball player