The Parents for Education Foundation, Inc. (PAREF) has been constituted as a foundation that provides basic services to schools associated with it. The parents who have gathered together under the umbrella of PAREF share basic beliefs. These are as follows:

Parents have the primary responsibility of educating their children.

Total formation has to include virtues and values inspired by Christian ideals that are actively and continuously pursued.

Freedom and responsibility must go hand in hand in a life of dedicated service to God and others, especially the less privileged.

PAREF has a specific approach to education in that parents are the primary movers in the education of their children and the teachers collaborate with and have a supportive role towards the parents as inspired by the teachings of St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei. This is best carried out through the home-school collaboration approach to education.In the PAREF System, parents participate in parent formation activities and all levels of school management receive personal formation. This is to ensure synergistic relationships in educating the students. The PAREF System adopts a personalized and individualized approach to education.

	Features of PAREF FORMATION: • To foster moral formation founded on the principles of natural law and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church with a delicate respect for the freedom of consciences. • To foster the formation of one's own judgement and the responsible use of personal freedom. • To achieve a wholistic and humanistic and cultural formation appropriate to the personal circumstances of each student through a demanding academic and personal formation program. • To cultivate the spirit of solidarity by encouraging the development of civic virtue, with emphasis on service and respect for the opinions of others. • To foster personal maturity and concern for human values, such as generosity, respect for others, sincerity, hard work, sportive spirit and care for details. • To demand through the different activities the necessary effort to achieve perfection in one's work in a way that each one may yield the maximum output allowed by his own capacity. • To pay particular attention to the values and other relevant manifestations of the Filipino culture.

The vinta, a sturdy Filipino boat, is the PAREF symbol. It stands for the educational philosophy shared by all the schools that belong to the PAREF system.

The stars above the vinta represent the three (3) sectors that comprise the PAREF school community. For the success of the PAREF SYSTEM with its underlying philosophy, there must be a wholesome interaction among the parents, teachers and students. For formation to be effective, the parents and teachers must themselves be such that they can lead the students by word and deed.