This report examines the results of a student background survey and reading assessment conducted between September 3rd and 14th, 2012 as part of Save the Children’s (SC)’s Literacy Boost program. The survey and reading assessment covered 261 grade 2 students throughout 14 sections of Cielito Zamora Memorial Elementary School in the Caloocan district of Manila in the Philippines. The 14 sections were split into seven intervention sections and seven comparison sections. The skills tested in this assessment include concepts about print (CAP), letter awareness, single word reading of most used words (MUW), reading fluency, reading accuracy, reading comprehension, and listening comprehension.