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King's CollegeKing’s College

The purpose of the school is to promote holistic education, including moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic education. Comprehensively cater for the needs of students, assist students in exploring their diverse potentials and achieve balanced development; provide a learning environment with strict discipline, inducing learning and cultivating enterprising spirit.

King's College exterior photos

school location: Central and Western District› 63A Bonham Road, Western District, Hong Kong.school map.

School Category

Government, boys' school; located in Central and Western District

There are 31 government secondary schools in Hong Kong, accounting for about 7% of the total; there are 29 boys' secondary schools in Hong Kong, accounting for about 6% of the total; learn more:Middle school distribution chart.Detailed distribution of secondary schools in Hong Kong.

Founding history

Founded in 1926, school sponsoring organization: Hong Kong SAR Government

School motto: Think carefully and act diligently.school badge.

Teaching situation

The total number of teaching staff is 55; there are 4 classes in Form 1.

53 of them are within the approved establishment. The class numbers for Form 1 to Form 6 are: 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4. (Note: The following class structure refers to the number of classes that can be opened. Some schools will increase the original number of classes, but the number of students will remain unchanged.)

school year	Number of teaching staff		Class structure
school year	All teachers	Approved preparation	total	Secondary 1	Secondary 2	Secondary 3	Secondary 4	Secondary 5	Secondary 6
2016	54	53	24	4	4	4	4	4	4
2017	56	55	24	4	4	4	4	4	4
2018	56	54	24	4	4	4	4	4	4
2019	54	52	24	4	4	4	4	4	4
2020	54	52	24	4	4	4	4	4	4
2021	55	53	24	4	4	4	4	4	4

King's College Teacher Structure 2020/21 School Year 2021/22 School Year All Secondary Schools in Hong Kong Diploma in Teacher Education Bachelor's Degree and above Special Education Training Years 0-4 Years 5-9 Years 10+ Years 0255075100

Size comparison

The school has 24 classes and 55 teachers, with a class-teacher ratio of approximately 2.29

Compared with other 440 schools: the number of classes is more than that of 20% school, there are 62% schools similar to it, but it is less than that of 18% school; the number of teachers is more than that of 18% school, there are similar schools of 15%, but it is less than that of 67% school; the class-teacher ratio is more than that of 9% school , there are similar 14% schools, less than 77% schools. (Statistics are based on school data in the 2021/2022 school year.Class total statistics chart.Teacher population statistics chart. )

Note: The number of classes, number of teachers and class-teacher ratio are not directly related to school quality. School size comparisons are for reference only.

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medium of instruction

The school uses English as the main language of instruction

School-wide language policy: All subjects, except Chinese Language, Chinese History, Mandarin, Life and Society, Citizenship and Social Development, and General Education, use English as the medium of instruction.

learning and teaching strategies: Teaching and learning features: 1: Promote a "student-centered" teaching model, design different learning activities, and encourage students to learn interactively; 2: Emphasize the importance of reflective learning, and encourage students and teachers to reflect on learning and teaching. Develop corresponding improvement strategies; 3: Take care of student diversity by enhancing students' autonomous learning abilities; 4: Extensively implement teachers' joint lesson preparation, peer observation and open classes; 5: Plan and implement relevant measures at all levels and subjects activities to strengthen the training of learning skills and higher-order thinking skills; 6: Use different teaching strategies to take care of students’ learning differences; 7: Effectively use information technology for interactive learning and improve learning and teaching effectiveness; 8: Strengthen e-learning and make extensive use of it The e-learning platform promotes students’ independent learning; 9: Encourage students to share their learning experiences in interdisciplinary activity classes every week, and provide opportunities to train students’ speaking skills; 10: Use diversified strategies to cultivate students’ common abilities and values/ attitude to achieve the goal of lifelong learning; 11: Promote cooperative learning in different subjects, promote students to learn from each other, and build a learning community; 12: Promote STEM education, improve students’ spirit of scientific inquiry, and stimulate students’ curiosity about things; 13: Improve students’ language skills and expand their knowledge areas through different types of reading activities.

More information:Daexao website:Banding estimates of schools and details of high school medium of instruction ※ Band 1B ※

Secondary One Admissions

Schools must admit students in accordance with the "Secondary School Place Allocation Method" of the Education Bureau

In the "Central Allocation Part B", the school network belongs to the Central and Western District, but some places will be allocated to Wan Chai District, Hong Kong Eastern District, Hong Kong Southern District, and Islands District. According to information circulating in the public, some people estimate that the vast majority of students come from BAND 1 of Primary 6 graduates. For admission details, please see:Degree allocation method ,self-assigned degrees ,Centralized allocation of seats in middle schools.

The following is the distribution of school places at each stage in the 2022 high school placement allocation.Latest information:Distribution of places allocated for secondary school promotion in 2022.

Secondary One Degree	self-assign	Repeat degree	Unified Department A	Unified Part B	B area	Unreserved bits	contact degree
144	43	8	7	86	Central and Western District	53	11
					Wan Chai District	3	0
					Eastern District	3	0
					South area	2	12
					Islands District	2	0

Related primary schools

The school has associated primary schools: Li Sing Primary School, Bonham Road Government Primary School, Hong Kong Southern District Government Primary School, Island Road Government Primary School

In the centralized allocation of places in secondary schools, the linked secondary schools can reserve up to 25% places for their linked primary schools.Contact secondary school list.

Contact information

King's College
King’s College

address: No. 63A Bonham Road, Western District, Hong Kong.school map ⛳
Telephone: 25470310 fax:25406908
e-mail: kings@edb.gov.hk
URL: https://www.kings.edu.hk

headmaster：Mr. Deng Qize
school supervisor/Chairman of the School Management Committee: Ms. Ye Xiumei