This is a program to streamline the system of educating thousands of students in an unstructured academic environment according to their particular artistic inclination. The Special Program for the Arts catered to those who have artistic talents and therefore uses a curriculum that considers attitude, commitment, and interests as academic requirements for young artists.

The objectives of this program are to provide basic and advance knowledge, concepts and skills in the various fields of the arts which are: visual arts, theater, dance, music, and creative writing to be a venue of artistic expression of our cultural heritage as well as that of the world. So, the First Special Program for the Arts outside Luzon was initiated in 1997, providing training for the artistically-inclined while providing basic secondary education. At first the Department of Education would not approve this program considering that the school already has the Special Science Program. But I insisted again that many poor and artistically-inclined young Ilonggo students would need this special program for they could not afford to go to the National School for Arts in Makiling in Laguna.

The Special Program for the Arts produces a major cultural activity at the end of each year. The activity entitled SAMAYAAY (which means recomciliation) is a cultural harvest of the best creative outputs of students in all the five areas of the performing arts: theater, dance, music, visual arts, and creative writing. At the end of each term or after graduation; a child has to come up with a thesis – a research work of his/her production. And in creative writing we expect the child to have a published writing compilation.