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School Classification

Finance Type: Aided

District & POA Net: Eastern (POA 16)

School Level: Primary

Student Gender: Co-educational

Religion: Catholicism

Medium of Instruction: Chinese (including Putonghua) and English

School Picture

Outlook of Salesian 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	75	38	47+8
2020	75	38	42+7
2021	75	38	54
2022	75	38	61
2023	75	38	66
2024	75	38	68
2025	75	38	46
2026	75	38	59

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 carries on the pedagogy of St. John Bosco, the founder of the Salesian Society, who has possessed the belief, conviction and experience to invite priests, educators, parents and the people concerned to join in the nurturing of young people as a family. They will recognise reason, loving kindness, and religion as inflexible need to make their presence felt, and cultivate them in different environment and activities. Each pupil shall feel they are guided and loved by knowledge and morality with equilibrium in personal growth as a member in God’s family.

Year of Commencement of Operation: 1951 · View School Emblem

School Motto

Keep the flame burning and light up the others.

Name of Sponsoring Body

Salesian Society of Don Bosco

Supervisor

Fr. Lam Chung Wai

School Head

Ms. Hsu Kim Yuen

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	3	4	3	2	3	3	18
2019	3	3	4	3	2	3	18
2020	3	3	3	4	3	2	18
2021	2	2	3	3	3	3	16
2022	1	2	2	2	3	3	13
2023	1	1	2	2	2	3	11
2024	1	1	1	2	2	2	9
2025	2	1	1	1	2	2	9
2026	1	2	1	1	1	2	8

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	32	39	44%	48%	12%	40%
2019	34	38	72%	19%	20%	61%
2020	36	38	24%	19%	20%	61%
2021	36	41	34%	24%	24%	52%
2022	33	36	23%	36%	22%	42%
2023	28	36	35%	35%	24%	41%
2024	25	30	53%	30%	27%	43%
2025	22	30	76%	21%	21%	58%
2026	22	27	81%	29%	15%	56%

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

School Facilities

The school has 18 classrooms, 1 school hall, 4 playgrounds and 1 library, occupying an area of about 5,800 square metre.

Special Rooms: Multi-purpose Zone, Computer Room, STEM Room, Library, Music Room, Art Room, English Room, PE Room, Sensory Integration Room, Religious Room and Counselling Room.

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

Others: Chapel, tuck shop and table football.

Area Occupied by the School

about 5,800 square metre

Number of Classrooms

School Location & Map

Salesian School is located at 16 Chai Wan Road, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong. 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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