Secondary School Places Allocation (SSPA) System
2014/2016 Cycle
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Being a Hong Kong resident
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Please refer to EDB Circular No. 13/2015 on “Entry of
Non-local Children and Children Holding a Form of
Recognizance to Schools in Hong Kong” and verify that all participating students are eligible for receiving education in the public sector schools in Hong Kong.
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Studying in a primary school participating in the SSPA System
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Never been allocated a Secondary 1 (S1) place
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Discretionary Places (DP)
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Central Allocation (CA)
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Repeater
Places
About
5 %
30%
Discretionary
Places
Central Allocation
About
65%
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Parents
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If to apply, not more than two participating secondary schools, otherwise the chance of acquiring a
DP will be forfeited
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Application is not subject to restriction on districts
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Secondary Schools
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Schools admit students according to their own admission criteria and weightings
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Criteria should be fair, just, open and educationally sound
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Schools may arrange interviews, but no written tests should be conducted
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Application Form for S1 Discretionary Place (Sample)
Two Application Forms to each student ( Only applicable to application to participating secondary schools; Not applicable to application to non-participating secondary schools)
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Each Application Form is divided into four parts. Students’ particulars are pre-printed in all parts
Lui Kee School Lui Kee School Lui Kee School
Lui Kee School
EDB’s
Copy
School’s
Copy
Parent’s
Copy
Order of
School
Preference
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Parents should write the name of the school they wish to apply to according to their order of preference in all parts of the Application Form
Method of submission: Must be submitted in person within the application period
(Submission by mail not accepted)
Parents should tear off the part containing the order of preference before submitting the application (There is no need for parents to indicate their order of preference to the school)
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Parents should submit the remaining three parts of the Application Form intact with the documents required to the school directly. They should bring along the original of their children’s identity document for checking by the secondary school
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If the information provided is in order, the school would enter the school name, school code and school chop in all parts of the Application Form
Parents will be given the Parent’s Copy as acknowledgement
Lui Kee School
0 0 1
呂 祺 中 學
LUI KEE SCHOOL
Lui Kee School Lui Kee School
LK
School
0 0 1
呂 祺 中 學
LUI KEE SCHOOL
LK
School
0 0 1
呂 祺 中 學
LUI KEE SCHOOL
LK
School
Once submitted, the Application Form cannot be retrieved or cancelled and no change can be made to the order of school preference 9

Parent
ONE School Choice
(Order of School Preference 1)
OR
TWO School Choices
(Order of School Preference 1 & 2)
School
Successful and
Reserve
Lists
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EDB
Matching of the parent’s preference against the school’s
Successful and
Reserve lists
Allocation will be based on the parent’s order of preference
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After the deduction of repeater and discretionary places, the remaining places in a secondary school are used for CA:
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10% for Part A Unrestricted School Choices
(choose one to three schools from any school nets, including the student’s own net)
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90% for Part B Restricted School Choices
(choose a maximum of 30 schools from the student’s own net)
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Demarcation of School Nets
The Victoria Park and Tin Hau District Councils constituency areas will be transferred to the
Wan Chai District with effect from 1 Jan 2016.
In line with the administrative districts, the whole territory is divided into 18 school nets for the allocation of places in Part B (Restricted School Choices) of CA.
The school net to which a student belongs is determined by the physical location of the primary school he/she attends.
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To ensure all the nets have sufficient places to meet the demand for CA, each school net comprises:
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 all participating secondary schools located in their own district ; and a number of participating secondary schools in other districts *
* the number of secondary schools and school places provided from other districts may vary from year to year according to the demand and supply situation
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Secondary One Choice of Schools Form (Sample)
Part A - Unrestricted
School Choices
(Refer to the
Handbook for
Unrestricted School
Choices, choose a maximum of 3 schools)
Part B - Restricted
School Choices
(Refer to the
Secondary School
List of the student’s own net, choose a maximum of 30 schools)
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Should complete and submit the Secondary
One Choice of Schools
Form to EDB in early
May through the primary school irrespective of whether application for DP has been made
CAN repeat the same school choice in both
Part A and Part B if it is in the student’s own net
DO NOT repeat the choices in the same part
DO NOT choose only a few favourite schools in
Part B. This will not increase the chance of the student being allocated to the school
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Part A
Unrestricted School
Choices
Part B
Restricted School
Choices
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Student’s Allocation Band*
(Territory Band)
Parental Choice of Schools
(a maximum of 3)
Random Number #
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Student’s Allocation Band*
(Net Band)
Parental Choice of Schools
(a maximum of 30)
Random Number #
#
∗ Allocation Band: Under the allocation process of SSPA, students’ standardised internal assessment results at the end of P5, and both in mid-year and at the end of P6 are scaled, then divided equally into 3 allocation bands with a view to determining the order of allocation
Random Number: It is used to determine the order of allocation within the same allocation band. If the demand for school places of a certain secondary school exceeds the supply, the student possessing a smaller random number will be allocated a place first 15

 A random number is first assigned to each student by the computer. It is used to determine the order of allocation within the same allocation band.
 The Unrestricted School Choices in
Part A will be processed first, to be followed by the Restricted School
Choices in Part B.
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 The computer will first process the school choices of students in Territory Band 1 ,
 then the choices of students in Territory
Band 2 , and
 finally the choices of Territory Band 3 students.
 Only after the computer has finished processing the choices of all the students in Part A will the unallocated students ’ choices in Part B be processed.
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After all the students in Net Band 1 have been allocated school places, the computer will follow the same procedure to allocate places to students in Net Band 2 , and finally allocate places to students in Net
Band 3
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Committee on Home-School Co-operation
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Secondary School Profiles
(Distributed in early December 2015)
Education Bureau
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Handbook for Application for Secondary 1 Discretionary Places
(Distributed in early December 2015)
Secondary School Lists and Handbook for Unrestricted School
Choices
(Distributed in mid April 2016)
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2014/2016 Schedule
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Late Oct 2015
Early Dec 2015
4 to 20 Jan 2016
March/April 2016
Distribution of Information Leaflet and
DVD
Distribution of Application Form for S1
Discretionary Place and related documents
All participating secondary schools accept DP applications within the same period
Some secondary schools may conduct interviews for selection of students
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Mid April 2016
Early May 2016
5 July 2016
Distribution of Secondary One Choice of Schools Form and related documents
All participating primary schools submit parents’ duly completed Secondary One
Choice of Schools Form
Release of allocation results
7 and 8 July 2016
12 July 2016
Students register with the secondary schools allocated
Pre-Secondary One Hong Kong
Attainment Test
Note: The date for primary schools to collect the allocation results is 4 July. If EDB has announced the closure of schools in the morning on that day owing to the issuing of the Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal Pre-No.8/No. 8 or above, the collection of allocation results will be postponed to 5 July. The announcement of allocation results will be postponed from 5 July to 6 July accordingly.
If in the morning on the day of the announcement of allocation results (i.e. 5 July), EDB has announced the closure of schools owing to the issuing of the Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal Pre-No.8/No. 8 or above or Red or Black Rainstorm
Warning Signal, the announcement of allocation results will be postponed to the next school day.
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Website
Education Bureau ( www.edb.gov.hk
): Home >
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Allocation (SSPA) System
Telephone
General Enquiries 2832 7740 / 2832 7700
Address
Office 2, 2/F, Manulife Financial Centre,
223 Wai Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon
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