The Salvation Army Lam Butt Chung Memorial School

School Classification

Finance Type: Aided

District & POA Net: Islands (POA 98)

School Level: Primary

Student Gender: Co-educational

Religion: Protestantism / Christianity

Medium of Instruction: Chinese

School Picture

Outlook of The Salvation Army Lam Butt Chung Memorial 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.

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Year	Total	DP	CA
2019	125	63	58
2020	125	63	40
2021	125	63	50
2022	125	63	59
2023	125	63	53
2024	125	63	49
2025	125	63	61
2026	125	63	55

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

Our School community, in sharing the love and truth of Jesus Christ, will grow in knowledge, maturity and care for others, especially those with greatest needs.

Year of Commencement of Operation: 2001 · View School Emblem

School Motto

Dignity, Faith, Love, Diligence

Name of Sponsoring Body

Salvation Army

Supervisor

Supervisor Chan Kwok Wai

School Head

Mr. Ma Kai Lung

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	5	4	4	4	4	3	24
2019	5	6	5	5	5	4	30
2020	5	5	6	5	5	5	31
2021	5	5	5	6	5	5	31
2022	5	5	5	5	6	5	31
2023	5	5	5	5	5	6	31
2024	5	5	5	5	5	5	30
2025	5	5	5	5	5	5	30
2026	5	5	5	5	5	5	30

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	43	47	52%	13%	37%	50%
2019	47	47	52%	25%	2%	73%
2020	54	62	38%	34%	8%	58%
2021	56	65	34%	34%	8%	58%
2022	57	65	34%	34%	8%	58%
2023	57	61	36%	24%	18%	58%
2024	57	61	50%	24%	18%	58%
2025	56	59	50%	24%	18%	58%
2026	56	59	80%	14%	23%	63%

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

School Facilities

The school has 30 classrooms, 1 school hall, 3 playgrounds and 1 library, occupying an area of about 10,000 square metre.

Special Rooms: 5 Piano Rooms, some special rooms including dancing room, canteen, computer Room, Dream Lab, library, language Room, Science room, 2 music rooms, counselling room, Game corner, hand bell room, hand chime room, brass band room, art and craft room and School Campus TV.

Facilities for supporting students with Special Educational Needs: Ramp, Accessible lift, Accessible toilet, Tactile guide path, Accessible public information / service counter and Visual fire alarm system.

Others: Escalator, washrooms for the disabled, outdoor café, outdoor climbing walls, table football, capsule station and claw machine.

Area Occupied by the School

about 10,000 square metre

Number of Classrooms

School Location & Map

The Salvation Army Lam Butt Chung Memorial School is located at Yat Tung Estate, Tung Chung, Lantau Island, 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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