Carmel Alison Lam Primary School

School Classification

Finance Type: Aided

District & POA Net: Sha Tin (POA 88)

School Level: Primary

Student Gender: Co-educational

Religion: Protestantism / Christianity

Medium of Instruction: Chinese (including Putonghua) and English

School Picture

Outlook of Carmel Alison Lam Primary School

Note: This school has the most common type-and-gender profile among Hong Kong primary schools: it is aided and co-educational. Aided schools account for 416 of 533 schools (78%), while 505 schools (95%) are co-educational. It is Christian-affiliated; 176 primary schools (33%) have the same affiliation overall, including 146 of the 416 aided schools (35%). Click to view an illustration.

Primary One Admission

In Hong Kong, the Primary One Admission (POA) System is administered by the Education Bureau to allocate Primary One places in government and aided primary schools. It consists of two stages: Discretionary Places Admission and Central Allocation. At the Discretionary Places stage, parents may apply directly to one government or aided school without being restricted by school net, and each school generally reserves about half of its Primary One places for this stage. The remaining places are allocated centrally, with 10% available for unrestricted school choices and 90% restricted to schools within the applicant’s residential school net. The table below summarises past years’ allocation figures, including Discretionary Places (DP), Central Allocation (CA), and total places.

View an illustration of the Primary One Admission System

Year	Total	DP	CA
2019	100+16	50	49
2020	100+12	50	56
2021	100	50	50
2022	100	50	42
2023	100	50	50
2024	100	50	54
2025	100	50	51
2026	100	50	66

Note: The figures for Discretionary Places (DP) and provisional Central Allocation (CA) places are published by the Education Bureau, while the total number of Primary One places is estimated from these figures. Where DP is lower than CA, this generally indicates that some discretionary places were unfilled and transferred to Central Allocation, suggesting relatively lower demand at the DP stage. Where DP and CA are approximately equal, the available discretionary places were generally fully taken up, suggesting relatively strong demand at the DP stage. Where DP is higher than CA and DP + CA is less than the estimated total, this generally indicates that the number of must-admit applicants exceeded the places normally reserved for them, with additional places taken from the original CA quota. These figures should therefore be used only as a general indication of admission demand and not as a definitive measure of a school's popularity.

View illustration: How to understand DP, CA and total places in POA

School Fees

This is an aided school, the most common type of primary school in Hong Kong. Aided schools account for approximately 78% of all primary schools and receive government funding to provide free primary education. No school fee is charged. By comparison, government schools account for around 6%, DSS schools 4%, and private schools 12%. Only DSS and private schools generally charge school fees.

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School Mission & Governance

We aim to provide holistic education, including moral, intellectual, physical, social, aesthetics and spiritual, to the students in accordance to the Bible. With holistic, quality education, we enhance students’ learning abilities and maximize their potential. Our students will get to know God through the Bible’s teaching, and growing up surrounded by faith, hope and love, they will be self-disciplined people who care about their nation and community, bringing glory to God and honor to those around them.

Year of Commencement of Operation: 1986 · View School Emblem

School Motto

Self-discipline through the understanding of the Word, Service to Mankind through faithfulness to the Lord

Name of Sponsoring Body

Evangelical School Development Incorporation Ltd

Supervisor

Dr. Yung Yuk Yee

School Head

Ms. Yick Wai Yu

Class Structure & School Size

The table below presents the number of classes in each form from S1 to S6 in recent years. These figures provide a useful reference for understanding the school’s overall scale, form structure, and possible changes in enrolment trends.

Year	P1	P2	P3	P4	P5	P6	Total
2018	4	4	4	4	4	4	24
2019	4	4	4	4	4	4	24
2020	4	4	4	4	4	4	24
2021	4	4	4	4	4	4	24
2022	4	4	4	4	4	4	24
2023	4	4	4	4	4	4	24
2024	4	4	4	4	4	4	24
2025	4	4	4	4	4	4	24
2026	2	4	4	4	4	4	22

Note: Class-related figures were obtained from the CHSC Primary School Profiles in September of each year.

Teachers Statistics

The table below presents some teacher statistics in recent years. TC# denotes total number of teachers, AE# = Approved Establishment, SET = Special Education Training, E = numbers of years of experience (0-4 years, 5-9 yesrs, 10 years or above).

Year	AE#	TC#	SET	E:0-4	E:5-9	E:10+
2018	45	46	5%	9%	9%	82%
2019	46	47	33%	12%	6%	82%
2020	46	47	33%	8%	11%	81%
2021	46	47	33%	8%	10%	82%
2022	46	47	56%	7%	20%	73%
2023	47	47	56%	6%	21%	73%
2024	47	47	57%	12%	16%	72%
2025	46	49	60%	12%	18%	70%
2026	46	49	52%	6%	21%	73%

Note: Teacher statistics were obtained from the CHSC Primary School Profiles in September of each year.

School Facilities

The school has 24 classrooms, 1 school hall, 1 playground and 1 library, occupying an area of about 6,200 square metre.

Special Rooms: Music Room, Multi-Media Computer Room, Art Room, Library, STEAM Room, English room, Student Guidance room, Parent Resources Room, Conference Room etc.

Facilities for supporting students with Special Educational Needs: Ramp and Accessible lift.

Others: Each classroom equipped with computer, audio-visual equipment and Smartboard. Book Crossing Corner and water machines are present around school.

Area Occupied by the School

about 6,200 square metre

Number of Classrooms

School Location & Map

Carmel Alison Lam Primary School is located at Hin Keng Estate, Sha Tin, N.T.. Use the interactive map below to explore the surrounding area. Alternatively, use our School Map to view this school and explore nearby schools.

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