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Assumption Iloilo is a Catholic and a college preparatory school in General Luna St., Iloilo City, Philippines. It was founded by the Sisters of the Assumption in 1910. It offers preschool, grade school, and high school education for males and females.HistoryThe Sisters of the Religious of the Assumption first came to the Philippines in 1892 at the request of Queen Maria Cristina of Spain. They established the Superior Normal School for Women Teachers in 1893, one of the first schools for women in the Philippines. However, with the end of the Spanish colonial rule over the Philippines in 1898, the school eventually closed and the Sisters returned to Spain.In 1904, the Sisters returned to the Philippines at the request of the Apostolic Delegate to the Philippines to Pope Pius X. They reestablished several schools, among them was the Assumption College of Makati and Assumption Iloilo in 1910. It was established at General Hughes Street, Iloilo City at the request of the then Bishop of Jaro, Cardinal Dennis Joseph Dougherty. It was moved to its current location three years later.In 1946, the Bureau of Private Schools accorded full recognition to the secondary and elementary education offered by the school, after it had re-applied for the Bureau accreditation at the end of the war.