page_title: Ormoc
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Ormoc / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Entrance of Eastern Visayas State University Ormoc campus.
context_page_description: Ormoc, officially the City of Ormoc, is a 1st class independent component city in the province of Leyte in the region of Eastern Visayas of the Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 215,031 inhabitants, making it the second most-populous city in the province after the provincial capital of Tacloban. Ormoc is the economic, cultural, commercial and transportation hub of western Leyte.
  Ormoc is an independent component city, not subject to regulation from the Provincial Government of Leyte. However, the city is part of the 4th Congressional District of Leyte together with Albuera, Kananga, Merida, Palompon and Isabel, and statistically grouped under the province by the Philippine Statistics Authority. On November 8, 2013, the city was extensively damaged by Super Typhoon Yolanda, having previously suffered severe destruction and loss of life in 1991 from torrential flooding during Tropical Storm Thelma.
  The city's name is derived from ogmok, an archaic Visayan term for "lowland" or "depressed plain".
context_section_description: Ormoc is the educational center for western Leyte. It has a range of primary and secondary schools, both public and private. Tertiary education was originally offered by St. Peter's College of Ormoc, a Benedictine-run Catholic college and the oldest, followed by Western Leyte College of Ormoc City, Inc., a private non-sectarian college. In the 1990s, the city saw the establishment of Santo Niño College of Ormoc, St. Paul's School of Ormoc Foundation, Inc. and the STI College - Ormoc. In the 2000s, tertiary institutions founded were ACLC College of Ormoc, San Lorenzo Ruiz College of Ormoc, Ormoc City Institute of Technology (OCIT) and the Ormoc campus of the Eastern Visayas State University.
  Ormoc also has their own Chinese school which is Ormoc Se San School.
caption: Eastern Visayas State University - Ormoc Campus
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