King Lam Catholic Primary School

School Classification

Finance Type: Aided

District & POA Net: Sai Kung (POA 95)

School Level: Primary

Student Gender: Co-educational

Religion: Catholicism

Medium of Instruction: Chinese (including Putonghua) and English

School Picture

Outlook of King Lam Catholic 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 Catholic-affiliated; 105 primary schools (20%) have the same affiliation overall, including 93 of the 416 aided schools (22%). 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	50	86
2020	100	50	80
2021	100	50	80
2022	100	50	89
2023	100	50	88
2024	100	50	92
2025	100	50	93
2026	100	50	100

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.

Aided schools are free banner

School Mission & Governance

We are committed to provide whole-person education to our students with an emphasis on the school’s vision and missions and core values; develop in our students’ moral, intellectual, physical, social, aesthetic and spiritual balance; inculcate Christian values for our students to build righteous values in life; foster a positive and healthy learning environment for our students to grow; encourage our students to pursue excellence; stimulate our students to develop awareness of the importance of righteousness; train our students to be caring, responsible and contributory individuals of the society.

Year of Commencement of Operation: 1990 · View School Emblem

School Motto

Immaculate Heart

Name of Sponsoring Body

Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Scheut Mission Hong Kong Limited

Supervisor

Mr. Tse Kam Ming

School Head

Ms. Ho Wing Yee Catherine

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	3	4	4	3	3	21
2019	3	4	3	4	4	3	21
2020	3	3	4	3	4	4	21
2021	3	3	3	4	3	4	20
2022	1	2	3	3	4	3	16
2023	1	1	2	3	3	4	14
2024	1	1	1	2	3	3	11
2025	1	1	1	1	2	3	9
2026	-	1	1	1	1	2	6

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	35	39	16%	64%	15%	21%
2019	38	40	28%	50%	16%	34%
2020	40	40	28%	55%	5%	40%
2021	40	46	25%	43%	32%	25%
2022	38	42	17%	45%	24%	31%
2023	32	37	19%	47%	23%	30%
2024	29	31	52%	30%	37%	33%
2025	24	24	50%	41%	21%	38%
2026	21	24	46%	25%	17%	58%

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, 2 playgrounds and 1 library, occupying an area of about 4,520 square metre.

Special Rooms: Flight Simulator Room, Chinese Culture Room (e-calligraphy table), English Learning Centre, Library, STEAM LAB, Science Laboratory, Art Room, Music Room, Activity Room, Counselling Room, Prayer Room and Dance Studio.

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

Others: Positive Values Paradise, Reading Eggs (reading corner), Pottery Studio, Gym Room, Running Track, Chinese Orchestra Room and Play Therapy Room.

Area Occupied by the School

about 4,520 square metre

Number of Classrooms

School Location & Map

King Lam Catholic Primary School is located at King Lam Estate, Tseung Kwan O, 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.

You can also view this school’s location on the Hong Kong Government GeoInfo Map (opens in a new tab) . Click to view the map preview .