HKUGA Primary School

It was founded by the Hong Kong University Graduates Association in 2002.^[1] According to the Hong Kong Economic Times, the HKUGA Primary School is "one of the most sought-after DSS schools".^[2] Every year, the school receives roughly 6,000 admittance applications for 120 spots.^[3] Applicants go through three rounds of interviews.^[3] The interviews test group activities, reading, logical questions, conversations, and how familiar parents are with the school.^[1]

It is a Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) school.^[3] It is a through-train school (Chinese: 一條龍學校) in which the primary school students proceed directly to the linked secondary school Hong Kong University Graduate Association College without going through the central allocation process.^[3] Author Ian Tsang cautioned parents to consider the considerable distance between the two schools: the primary school was in the Eastern District, while the secondary school was in the Southern District.^[1] The school emphasises reading and independent learning.^[4] Unlike the typical school which would have teachers teach different subjects, HKUGA Primary School follows the approach of having teachers each teach a single subject. The aim is to have the teachers specialise and become experts in their subject.^[1] It follows the biliteracy and trilingualism [zh] pedagogical approach in which students are taught how to read in English and Chinese and how to speak in Cantonese, English, and Mandarin.^[1] To reduce student stress, the school does not hold exams for students in the first and second grades.^[1]

• Education in Hong Kong
• List of primary schools in Hong Kong