Ricafort Elementary School together with its surrounding community belongs to the depressed, deprived, and underserved (DDUs) communities in the City of San Jose del Monte. There are five (5) distant-adjacent communities benefiting from Ricafort Elementary School namely Sitio Ricafort, Carmel Farms, Dalandanan, Turribio, and Bricks. The eight (8) kilometers away from former satellite school of Tungkong Mangga Elementary School is now a complete elementary School with an average 200 annual enrolment. The eight-kilometers distance between and/ or connecting the two sites is described having ninety percent (90%) very rough road course, either dusty or muddy during climate change. With shifty turns, the road lies mostly a top the hills and on hills and the rest on plain and meadow portions, which usual sites occupied by clustered residents/ dwellers. The Road is typified to be up-sloping and down-sloping in most areas.
No public vehicular trips is available only tricycle can be hired from Tungkong Mangga Terminal for Php 250.00 to Php. 300.00. The residents of Sitio Dalandanan need to trek inside the forested and pass along hilly areas in about one kilometer-distance just to be able to attend classes in Ricafort ES.
Residents of the catchment areas are commonly farmers tilling lands and/ or engaged in other agricultural enterprising such as fruits and vegetables vending/ selling; and farms caretaking and livestock raising, the farms of which owned and managed by known personalities in the business community. As such, residents meagerly earn, and most of the time, on seasonal basis, that they could hardly make ends meet.
In despites of this harsh condition, many residents believe that education is the only key to alleviate them from the bondage of ignorance and poverty in which is a collective responsibility of various partners and stakeholders.
This initiative of the local communities together with the local barangays and other stakeholders in maintaining, supporting and taking care of the Elementary School is a clear sign that they put premium in the future their children.