[Archive] Supply and demand for Secondary One places

Date of sitting: 26 June 2002

Asked by: Hon YEUNG Yiu-chung

Replied by: SEM

Question:

Regarding the supply and demand for Secondary One places, will the Government inform this Council of :

1. the respective numbers of Secondary One school places in each secondary school net in the past two, the current and the next school years; and
   
   
2. the respective numbers of Primary Six school boys and girls in each secondary school net in the current school year?
   
   

Reply:

Madam President:

Under the Secondary School Places Allocation (SSPA) system, the whole territory of Hong Kong is divided into 18 school nets according to the administration districts. The school net to which a Primary Six student belongs is determined by the location of the primary school which he/she attends. In addition to the secondary schools in the district, a school net usually also includes places from secondary schools in other districts in order to meet the demand arising from the changing number of students and to provide parents with more choices.

1. The number of Secondary One school places (include both discretionary places and places for central allocation) provided by secondary schools in each district for the SSPA system in the 1999/2000, 2000/01, 2001/02 and 2002/03 school years are-
   
   

   District / No. of Places	1999/2000 School Year	2000/2001 School Year	2001/2002 School Year	2002/2003 School Year
   Central and Western	2 623	2 649	2 702	2 558
   Wan Chai	3 686	3 531	3 413	3 193
   Eastern	5 804	6 339	6 048	5 834
   Southern	2 444	2 584	2 498	2 548
   Yau Tsim Mong	2 693	3 367	3 140	3 150
   Sham Shui Po	3 149	4 069	4 112	4 102
   Kowloon City	6 114	6 465	6 273	6 628
   Wong Tai Sin	4 143	4 445	4 542	4 447
   Kwun Tong	5 309	6 551	6 478	6 398
   Kwai Tsing	5 890	6 561	6 260	6 230
   Tsuen Wan	2 492	2 726	2 512	2 512
   Tuen Mun	6 702	7 222	7 151	7 332
   Yuen Long	5 407	6 004	6 611	7 497
   North	4 048	4 473	4 522	4 531
   Tai Po	4 729	4 904	4 778	4 911
   Sha Tin	7 559	8 265	8 055	8 166
   Sai Kung	3 354	4 202	3 955	3 813
   Islands	722	828	1 016	1 370

   
   
2. The number of Primary Six students participating in the SSPA system in each district in the 2001/02 school year are-
   
   

   District	No. of Boys	No. of Girls	Total
   Central and Western	1 590	1 404	2 994
   Wan Chai	1 366	1 486	2 852
   Eastern	2 722	2 369	5 091
   Southern	1 113	1 017	2 130
   Yau Tsim Mong	2 322	2 121	4 443
   Sham Shui Po	2 366	2 110	4 476
   Kowloon City	3 495	3 315	6 810
   Wong Tai Sin	2 326	2 433	4 759
   Kwun Tong	3 101	2 739	5 840
   Kwai Tsing	2 564	2 418	4 982
   Tsuen Wan	1 847	1 674	3 521
   Tuen Mun	3 674	3 329	7 003
   Yuen Long	3 464	3 389	6 853
   North	2 340	2 256	4 596
   Tai Po	2 385	2 237	4 622
   Sha Tin	3 356	3 117	6 473
   Sai Kung	1 698	1 680	3 378
   Islands	496	510	1 006