The Central Luzon State University Laboratory High School in Bibiclat, Aliaga, Nueva Ecija was one of the three formerly known Barrio Development Schools (BDS). The concept of BDS began in 1974 during the administration of CLSU President Amado C. Campos and jointly financed by the university and the Education Development Project Implementing Task Force (EDFITAT).
BDS was an educational program at the secondary level designed for rural youth who had decided to live and work in the barrio and who desired to develop proficiency in farming or homemaking and related occupations. Also, it was mainly a training program for self-employment and not for preparation for college.
Three barangays in the province of Nueva Ecija were selected as the pilot areas for BDS program namely: Bibiclat, Aliaga; Palusapis, Muñoz; and Porais, in which later transferred to Pinili, San Jose City.
However, due to the changing needs and aspiration of the barangay people in the said sites, the terminal occupation concept curriculum was changed to a college preparatory curriculum-general secondary curriculum. It was approved by the CLSU Board of Regents on April 26, 1979 under Board Resolution No. 1870 & 1979. The new curriculum was implemented on June 1, 1979 and the schools were called CLSU Secondary Schools (CSS).
In 1981, the schools were transferred from the Department of Extension to the Technology Dissemination and Utilization System (TDUS) of the University’s Research and Development Center (RDC). Then the schools were renamed CLSU Outreach Schools (COS) to give more meaning not only in their functions in instruction but as show windows and arms of the university in extension and research works.
In June 1993, the schools were transferred to the College of Education to go with the dynamic changes of the university’s thrusts programs. They became fully laboratory school in practice teaching of college students taking Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Education (BSAEd), Bachelor of Secondary Education (BSEd) and Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Extension Education (BSAExtEd).
Presently, the schools are with the Department of Laboratory Schools of the College of Education, the name ULHS was used initially in 1994.
