Mary of Providence Primary School

School Classification

Finance Type: Aided

District & POA Net: Tsuen Wan (POA 62)

School Level: Primary

Student Gender: Co-educational

Religion: Catholicism

Medium of Instruction: Chinese

School Picture

Outlook of Mary of Providence 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.

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Year	Total	DP	CA
2019	60	30	29
2020	60	30	27
2021	60	30	29
2022	60	30	22
2023	60	30	29
2024	50	25	24
2025	50	25	15
2026	50	25	32

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

Guiding principles of Christian faith are upheld in pursuit of Christian educational goals: To provide a cordial and jovial nurturing environment to pupils with love and enthusiasm. To provide pupils with quality education, developing in them independent thinking skills in concurrence with a heightened sense of citizenship and nationality. To foster all-round spiritual, moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic development of pupils.

Year of Commencement of Operation: 1960 · View School Emblem

School Motto

Please refer to the Chinese version.

Name of Sponsoring Body

Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong

Supervisor

Ms. Chiu Koon See

School Head

Mr. Lee Hei Sum Lawrence

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	2	2	2	2	2	2	12
2019	2	2	2	2	2	2	12
2020	2	2	2	2	2	2	12
2021	2	2	2	2	2	2	12
2022	2	2	2	2	2	2	12
2023	2	2	2	2	2	2	12
2024	2	2	2	2	2	2	12
2025	2	2	2	2	2	2	12
2026	1	2	2	2	2	2	11

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	26	26	46%	15%	12%	73%
2019	26	26	46%	12%	12%	76%
2020	28	26	46%	12%	12%	76%
2021	28	28	46%	12%	12%	76%
2022	28	28	54%	29%	21%	50%
2023	28	28	54%	25%	21%	54%
2024	28	28	63%	29%	14%	57%
2025	28	28	63%	29%	14%	57%
2026	28	28	63%	29%	14%	57%

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

School Facilities

The school has 12 classrooms, 1 school hall, 1 playground and 1 library, occupying an area of about 2,120 square metre.

Special Rooms: 9 (Multipurpose Room, Language Laboratory, Music Room, Interview Room, Counselling Room, Activity Room, Server Room, Prayer Room & English Corner, STREAM Studio).

Facilities for supporting students with Special Educational Needs: Ramp.

Area Occupied by the School

about 2,120 square metre

Number of Classrooms

School Location & Map

Mary of Providence Primary School is located at 68 Ho Pui Street, Tsuen Wan, 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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