Hong Kong
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The school is located at 140 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. This places it on Hong Kong Island in the Wan Chai District. The campus sits in an urban Causeway Bay area that hosts a range of amenities and transport options.
The Secondary Section serves Form 1 to Form 6 for girls aged about 11 to 18. It operates as the secondary arm of St. Paul's Convent School, which also includes a Primary Section (P1–P6) and other early years divisions. Students in the secondary program follow the HKDSE pathway.
St. Paul's Convent School is a Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) school. It is a single-sex, girls-only Catholic school run by the Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres.
Additional Learning Needs (SEN) support is provided. A dedicated SEN team works with form teachers, subject teachers, parents, and social workers to support students.
No formal country affiliation is stated beyond its Catholic identity.
Catholic, administered by the Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres in Hong Kong.
The secondary school day runs from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm on weekdays.
The school does not operate a dedicated school bus service.
Application fees
- No separate application or registration fee is published for the Secondary Section. The public school profile for the Secondary Section lists no ‘Other Charges / Fees' or application fee for secondary applicants.
Tuition fees (by year group)
- School-wide published chargeable (tuition) fees are stated as annual amounts as follows:
- Form 1 (S1): HKD 30,000 per year.
- Form 2 (S2): HKD 30,000 per year.
- Form 3 (S3): HKD 30,000 per year.
- Form 4 (S4): HKD 32,000 per year.
- Form 5 (S5): HKD 32,000 per year.
- Form 6 (S6): HKD 32,000 per year.
- The published figures appear as annual school fees; no per-term fee amounts are published publicly for the Secondary Section. The public school profile shows the annual chargeable fees but does not provide a published breakdown by term.
Billing schedule and payment terms
- The school's public materials list the annual chargeable fees but do not publish a standard billing schedule or detailed payment terms for tuition (for example, per-term or instalment deadlines and surcharges are not published in the materials available online). The fee remission and scholarship pages describe how remissions and scholarships are administered, but a standard tuition invoicing timetable and payment-terms document is not published in the public pages.
- Scholarship payments (where scholarships are awarded) are paid in two equal instalments by direct credit to the parent's designated bank account; the school issues scholarship offer letters and the payments are scheduled in November and March. (This applies to scholarship disbursement only, not to general tuition invoicing.)
Boarding fees
- The Secondary Section does not publish any boarding or hostel facilities or boarding fees. No boarding/hostel charge is listed in the school profile for the Secondary Section. The school is listed as a day secondary school (no boarding fees published).
Other costs and fees (uniforms, books, activities, association fees, etc.)
- Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) fee: HKD 500 per year is listed as an annual charge.
- The school's public profile does not publish fixed amounts for uniforms, textbooks, field trips, uniform purchase, student ID replacement, extracurricular charges or other ‘non-standard' items for the Secondary Section; the profile shows ‘Approved Charges for Non-standard Items' and ‘Other Charges / Fees' as blank for the Secondary Section. This indicates no standard published amounts for those items in the public profile. Individual items (textbooks, camps, trips, instrument tuition, extra-curricular camps or overseas trips) are commonly charged separately by most schools, but no specific standard figures for those items are published for the Secondary Section.
Refund information
- The school maintains a formal Fee Remission Scheme and may grant fee remission up to 100% in cases of proven financial hardship or emergency circumstances; fee remissions and scholarships are awarded annually and the school provides a self-assessment platform and application procedures for fee remission. The fee remission policy and the availability of emergency assistance are published in the school's fee-remission documentation.
Fee payment options
- The school's publicly listed pages and school profile provide the chargeable amounts and fee-remission/scholarship procedures but do not publish a comprehensive list of accepted payment methods (for example: bank transfer details, FPS/PayMe/PPS, in-person cheque, or credit-card gateway information) in the public profile. No standard payment-method text (credit card / bank account number / online payment gateway) is published in the public pages inspected.
St. Paul's Convent School (Secondary Section) is a historic, single‑sex Catholic DSS secondary school for girls located at 140 Leighton Road in Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island. It was founded in 1854 and moved to its current site in 1914; the present building was completed in 1981. The campus includes separate buildings for Secondary, Primary and Pre‑school sections, and facilities such as an indoor heated swimming pool, a library, a Studio/Media Lab, and the Smart Oasis green building. The school offers HKDSE and GCE A‑Levels, and supports a broad programme of arts, languages and STEM through specialist facilities and programmes. Fee remission and scholarships are available, with policies in place to provide financial assistance and academic/non‑academic awards to qualifying students. Open days and anniversary events continue to celebrate the school's long history and community.