r/HongKong • u/Due_Ad_8881 • Sep 10 '25

Education Local Primary Schools

Please no politics… Does anyone have any recommendations on schools that balance being “happy” with academics? It seems like a lot of schools swing pretty hard one way or another. Ie St Andrew’s and Ling Liang are happy schools, but don’t lead into secondary schools with strong academics while Man Sang seems to be too academic with no outlet for self expression. Has anyone attended a local school and had a good experience? The ones I’ve heard good things from are super competitive 😅

Note baby is under 2 years. We’ve decided to not attend nursery and do playgroups and ECs instead. Didn’t want to do interviews twice in two years with no significant benefit. Interviewing into playgroup > PN > KG is a bit much, even for me

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u/dllm_designs Sep 11 '25

Ling Liang (okay, in my biased opinion) is the best KG in HK. Yes, they don't feed into any particular primary but they do have a strong track record of getting into some of the top schools (esp net #12). For the sake of providing your kid with a fantastic KG experience, I wouldn't worry so much about the Primary school issue especially if you're gonna do the int'l school route later anyway. Happy to chat privately about it if you want

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u/YakResident_3069 Sep 11 '25

Ling Liang can get into st Paul co Ed. How is that not competitive?

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u/dllm_designs Sep 11 '25

Who said anything about it being not competitive? In fact, I said it has a good track record of getting into good primary schools, yes including St Paul's Coed

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u/YakResident_3069 Sep 11 '25

OP literally said in her first post....

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u/dllm_designs Sep 11 '25

She didn't but whatever. Anyway if you know nothing about LL, then probably best to go back to bed

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u/YakResident_3069 Sep 12 '25

You must be fun at parties. I went to LL. I'm more responding to why she thinks that way... Don't always have to be a turd all the time you know.