The Philippine SchoolPrincipal & Leadership Team

The Philippine School is led by Principal Jesus S. Ostos Jr., who joined the school in August 2021. His welcome message to the 2024–2025 school year reflects a leadership style built on resilience, community trust, and a clear commitment to holistic student development — values that align with the school's founding mission of affordable, God-centred education. While no vice-principal or senior leadership team is named in available sources, the principal's direct communication with parents through the school website and social channels signals an accessible, community-facing approach to school leadership.

ADEK's most recent inspection, conducted in May 2022, rated leadership effectiveness as Acceptable — the minimum performance threshold — with self-evaluation and improvement, and management, also rated at the same level. Governance, however, was rated Good, reflecting the positive role of the School Governing Board (SGB), which collaborates with leadership on academic performance, community involvement, and stakeholder engagement. Partnerships with parents were likewise rated Good, supported by regular advisories via the school website, student diary, and social media channels. These are genuine strengths in an otherwise modest leadership picture.

The school's 24 teachers serve 556 students, producing a student-to-teacher ratio of 1:23 — notably higher than the Abu Dhabi private school average. Among the only two Philippine curriculum schools in Abu Dhabi, direct ratio benchmarking is limited, but the gap relative to the broader city average warrants parental attention, particularly across a full KG1–Grade 12 span. All teachers hold Filipino nationality, providing strong cultural and linguistic continuity for the school's exclusively Filipino student body — a deliberate and valued feature of the TPS model. [MISSING: staff qualification levels, percentage holding degrees or postgraduate qualifications]

On trajectory, the school has made measurable progress since its first inspection in 2014–2015, when 71% of standards were rated Weak. By 2021–2022, no standards were rated Weak or Very Weak, and the proportion rated Good rose from 12% in 2018–2019 to 24% in 2021–2022. This is a school moving in the right direction, albeit from a low base and still rated Acceptable overall — a rating shared by both Philippine curriculum schools in Abu Dhabi. Staff retention data is not published, but the consistency of the school's culture and the principal's community-focused messaging suggest reasonable stability. Students have earned recognition through participation in the World Scholars Cup and Philippine School Overseas-sponsored competitions, reflecting a leadership team willing to extend learning beyond the classroom.