The study attempts to establish a baseline quantitative data on the Grade 9 students’ level of oral English. To achieve the purpose, 91 Grade 9 students were selected from a whole population pool of 118 based on the result of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) and the researcher-made questionnaire in terms of Philippine curriculum competencies, namely: linguistic and discourse. It was found out that the students are less proficient and less competent in oral communication. Pearson-Product Moment Correlation was used to determine the relationship between the TOEIC level of proficiency and level of competence based on the Philippine curriculum. The result indicated that there was a significant relationship between the oral proficiency of the students in terms of the TOEIC evaluation criteria and the level of competence based on the competencies of the Philippine curriculum.