General Information on Secondary School Places Allocation (SSPA) System
Admission to Secondary 1 (S1) in September 2024
Applicable to Students Participating in SSPA
(Students studying Primary 6 in schools participating in SSPA)
General Information
Discretionary Places (DP)
- Application to government, aided and caput schools as well as Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) secondary schools participating in SSPA
- [Application period from 2 January to 16 January 2024]
- Application to non-participating Direct Subsidy Scheme (NDSS) secondary schools
- [Application period at the schools' discretion]
Arrangements for Notifying Successful DP Applicants- Secondary schools participating in SSPA will notify parents of successful DP applicants of their children's inclusion in the Successful Lists for Discretionary Places on 27 March 2024
- EDB Circular No. 18/2019
Central Allocation (CA)
- Choice-making period from early April to early May in 2024
Announcement of Allocation Results and Completion of Admission Registration Procedure- Release of DP and CA results on 9 July 2024
- S1 registration on 11 and 12 July 2024
Pre-Secondary One Hong Kong Attainment Test
- For more information, please click here
Applicable to Students NOT participating in SSPA
(including newly-arrived children and students studying Primary 6 in schools NOT participating in SSPA)
Schedule
- Application to government, aided and caput schools as well as DSS secondary schools participating in SSPA*
- [Application period from 2 January to 16 January 2024]
- Visit the School Places Allocation (SPA) Section of the EDB during office hours from 5 December 2023 to 16 January 2024, bringing along the originals of student applicants' identity documents. Eligible applicants will be issued with the Application Form for Secondary One Discretionary Place and the activation code of the SSPA e-Platform
- Submit the Application Form for Secondary One Discretionary Place and documents required to the school direct from 2 January to 16 January 2024. For parents registered as SSPA e-Platform users and bound their account with “iAM Smart+”, apart from the paper Application Form, they may submit DP applications via the SSPA e-Platform
- Secondary schools participating in SSPA will notify parents of successful DP applicants of their children's inclusion in the Successful Lists for Discretionary Places on 27 March 2024
- If student applicants are admitted by participating secondary schools or Jockey Club Ti-I College at DP stage, the secondary school concerned will call the parents to inform them of the application results and the related arrangements on 9 July 2024, i.e. the date of announcement of the allocation results
- Application to NDSS secondary schools
- [Application period at the schools' discretion]
- Application for a subsidised S1 place for 2024/25 school year*
- [To be allocated by the EDB]
- Applicants may apply for a subsidised S1 place from May to August 2024. Places available after CA will be allocated to eligible applicants by the EDB. Applicants may choose to submit their applications by visiting the SPA Section in person or by email
- The results of the first batch of applications will be announced in early July 2024, the second batch by the end of July 2024, the third batch in mid-August 2024, and thereafter students will be informed individually
[*Eligibility for application: Applicants must be a Hong Kong resident, have never been allocated an S1 place through SSPA and have never studied in government, aided, caput and DSS secondary schools.]
Digitalisation of S1 Admission
School Places Allocation Section of the Education BureauAddress : Office 2, 2/F, Manulife Financial Centre, 223 Wai Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon
Telephone : 2832 7740, 2832 7700
Office hours : Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 1:00pm and 2:00pm to 6:00pm; closed on Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays.
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