SSCR-Manila was established with the OAR three-fold mission in mind.The college was established in 1941 with around 80 students.It assumed hiatus from 1942 to 1945 when World War II broke out.It formally re-opened after the war in 1946.The school year 1946-47 is generally considered to be the first regular year of uninterrupted presence of SSCR- Manila in the vast field of Philippine education.The past 52 years bear witness to how the vision evolved into a sprawling campus with a marked neo-gothic architecture, offering quality instructions with facilities aimed at developing successful students and citizens in a diverse, pluralistic and working society. SSCR-Manila situated in the heart of Manila was named after a Roman centurion turned martyr – San SebastianThe college had a relatively humble beginning.Its first functional lone building in 1946 was an old convent: a two- storey Hispanic edifice made of stone and wood with capiz shell windows.The building served as classrooms of the first batch of 200 elementary and high school enrollees.SSCR-Manila was then an exclusive school for boys. The Recollects’ desire to respond to the needs of the times triggered a string of physical metamorphosis that now characterize the spirit, the architecture and the educational ambience of the college. (^
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