Project SMURF is an initiative of the Planning and Research Section (PRS) to uplift the performance of the Schools Division of Calapan City in research. Accordingly, this action research tested the effectiveness of the project and investigates further its possible contributions in attaining DepEd Goals. Underneath the quantitative research method, the descriptive and comparative design was used to answer the posited questions of this research. Hard data sets from the PRS office were utilized through matrices and forms for chi-square and simple linear regression test statistics. The study revealed that the Schools Division performed poorly having only an average of 13 researches from the years 2018-2020. Meanwhile, in the year 2021, 61 pieces of research were produced resulting in a very good performance of the Office. Furthermore, the study proved that project SMURF was effective gaining a p-value of 0.0013 which is way less than 0.05, and rejecting H[subscript o]. Correspondingly, a positive variance and a slope of 7.2 showed a direct and positive trend towards an increasing performance of the Schools Division in the years to come. Based on the result of the study, it is recommended that the Schools Division continuously implement project SMURF since it is proven effective and can increase research production with quality for the upcoming years.