St. Paul's College (Traditional Chinese: 聖保羅書院) is an Anglican day school for boys in Mid Levels, Hong Kong and is located adjacent to University of Hong Kong. Established in 1851, it is the oldest secondary school there. The college has an all-boys primary school section (Primary 1-6) and only becomes co-educational in the secondary section from Form 6 and beyond. Its school council enjoys a special status in Hong Kong, in that it is a statutory...
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St. Paul's College (Traditional Chinese: 聖保羅書院) is an Anglican day school for boys in Mid Levels, Hong Kong and is located adjacent to University of Hong Kong. Established in 1851, it is the oldest secondary school there. The college has an all-boys primary school section (Primary 1-6) and only becomes co-educational in the secondary section from Form 6 and beyond. Its school council enjoys a special status in Hong Kong, in that it is a statutory body incorporated by a local ordinance, the St. Paul's College Council Ordinance. The aim of the school is, according to the Ordinance, to "provide education to Chinese youths in the English language upon Christian principles".
The school opened with one tutor and nine pupils. Today, the school has 1163 pupils in the secondary section and around 500 in the primary section.
St. Paul's College receives special attention from historians as the world's first Anglo-Chinese school. Its founder, the Revd Vincent John Stanton, is also the first...
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