Hong Kong
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Sir Ellis Kadoorie (S) Primary School is located at 9 Eastern Hospital Road, Sookunpo (So Kon Po), Wan Chai District, Hong Kong. The school sits in an urban setting near Causeway Bay with convenient access to public transport; its address places it close to local bus routes and tram services. The site comprises multiple facilities on a compact campus that has served the primary school since the secondary section moved out in 1999.
The school provides primary education from Primary 1 to Primary 6. It operates as a whole-day, single-primary-school campus and supports a diverse student body. Graduates historically feed into Sir Ellis Kadoorie Secondary School (West Kowloon) as the designated secondary option.
The school is a government (官立) primary school and is co-educational. It operates as a full-day program and does not offer boarding facilities. The governing framework is the Hong Kong Education Bureau system for government primary schools.
The school provides extensive support for Additional Learning Needs (SEN) with a dedicated SENCO and SENST, access to speech therapy, occupational therapy, and social skills training, and teaching assistants for SEN students. An educational psychologist visits regularly to design Individual Education Plans for students requiring extra support.
There is no official country affiliation for the school; it is a government primary school within Hong Kong.
The school has no religious affiliation. It is not linked to a specific faith.
The school day typically begins at 8:25 a.m. and ends at 3:00 p.m., with a lunch break from 12:30 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. There are ten 30-minute periods in a school day, and in many years the last period on Monday to Thursday is a home-class session.
A school bus service is provided with published routes for the current term (2025–26). Route details and stops are published on SEKPS's bus information page.
Application fees
- There is no application fee charged for admission to the school. Application forms are available in person at the school office. The admissions process includes submission of documents, a selection test and, if required, an interview.
Tuition fees by year group (per term / per year)
- The school does not charge tuition fees for any primary year group (Primary 1 through Primary 6). There are no per-term or per-year tuition charges for enrolled pupils.
Billing schedule and payment terms
- Because there are no tuition fees, there is no tuition billing schedule or termly tuition payment requirement for Primary 1–6 students. For other chargeable items recorded by the school authority, published annual charges show no standard non‑tuition items except the Parent–Teacher Association levy listed below. Detailed billing schedules and payment dates for any occasional activity charges are not published in the school's publicly listed annual charges.
Boarding fees
- Boarding is not applicable. The school operates as a whole‑day day school and does not charge boarding fees.
Other costs or fees (uniforms, PTA, excursions, etc.)
- Parent–Teacher Association (PTA) fee: HKD 65 (annual), as listed in the school's published annual charges for 2025/2026.
- School‑based management or other approved non‑standard item charges: no standard charge is published in the 2025/2026 annual charges.
- Lunch: the school's lunchtime arrangement notes a designated supplier and indicates that lunch is arranged by parents (either provided by the supplier or brought from home); lunch costs are therefore payable by parents directly and are not itemised as a school tuition charge.
- School bus: the school provides a school bus service; any bus fees are arranged separately (parents pay the bus service/operator) and are not part of the school tuition charge certificate.
- Uniforms, textbooks, stationery, extra‑curricular activity fees, musical instrument hire/tuition and optional excursion charges may incur separate costs payable by parents. No standard amounts for these items are published in the school's listed annual charges.
Refund information
- No tuition fees are charged, so tuition refunds are not applicable. The school's published annual charges do not include a general schoolwide refund policy for PTA levies or ad hoc activity charges in the publicly listed summary of annual charges. Specific refund terms for voluntary payments or activity fees are not published in the available school charge summary.
Fee payment options
- The school's publicly listed annual charges and the application/admissions information do not specify standard payment methods (for example, bank transfer, cheque, autopay or credit card) for PTA levies, bus fees or other incidental charges. Parents should note that such payments (where applicable) are typically arranged directly with the PTA, activity organisers or service providers; the school's published summaries do not list standard payment channels.
The school was founded in 1891 by Ellis Kadoorie as the Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians. The Primary School has occupied the original premises since the secondary section moved to West Kowloon in 1999. The campus serves Primary 1–6 in a whole-day English-medium program.