St. Mary of the Woods School was founded in 1971, by Mrs. Josefina Pabalan Soriano as a pre-school learning center for children of working mothers. Through the years, due to insistent demands from parents, the school expanded its offerings from pre-school through the different levels of Grade School
and High School. In 1984, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, now called Department of Education, granted full recognition to the school’s grade school department. Later in 1993, the High School department obtained government recognition and it held its first high school graduation in 1994.