Top 15 Best Public Secondary Schools in Hong Kong 2026

La Salle College has been run by the De La Salle Brothers since its founding in 1932. It operates as a Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) boys' school in Hong Kong.

St. Paul's Co-educational College (SPCC), founded in 1915 by the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (the Anglican Church), is a Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) school located in the Mid-Levels on Hong Kong Island. It is co-educational and operates under Anglican, not Catholic, sponsorship.

Diocesan Girls' School (DGS), founded in 1860, is located at 1 Jordan Road in Kowloon, making it one of Hong Kong's oldest girls' schools.

Wah Yan College, Kowloon was established in 1924 as the Kowloon branch of Wah Yan College, whose original Hong Kong Island campus dates to 1919. Since 1946 it has been run by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) under the Ignatian Pedagogy tradition. As a government-aided school, it is tuition-free for local students.

St. Stephen's Girls' College, founded in 1906, is an Anglican girls' school affiliated with the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. As a grant school, it is government-funded and tuition-free for local students. Notable alumnae include Rita Fan, the first President of Hong Kong's Legislative Council, and Ellen Li, the first female member of the Legislative Council.

Marymount Secondary School was founded in 1927 and has been located on Blue Pool Road in Happy Valley since 1957. Originally established by the Maryknoll Sisters, its sponsorship passed to the Columban Sisters in the late 1970s and later to the Christian Life Community in the mid-1990s. It is a Catholic girls' school with a long history in Hong Kong education.

St. Joseph's College, established by the De La Salle Brothers in 1875, is Hong Kong's first Catholic all-boys secondary school. Located at 7 Kennedy Road in Central, it is a government-funded, tuition-free school for local students. Its most notable alumnus is Charles K. Kao, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work on fibre optics.

St. Paul's College, founded in 1851, is the oldest continuously operated school in Hong Kong. It is an English-medium Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) school located on Bonham Road in Mid-Levels West and charges tuition as part of its DSS status. Notable alumni in law and politics include Wu Tingfang, Wang Chonghui, and former Legislative Council President Jasper Tsang.

Pui Ching Middle School traces its origins to Pui Ching Academy, founded in Guangzhou in 1889. Its Hong Kong branch was established in 1933 and formally took its current name in 1950. It is a Chinese-medium Baptist school with its campus at 20 Pui Ching Road in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon.

Tang Shiu Kin Victoria Government Secondary School is a government-run secondary school in Hong Kong that has been co-educational since 1979, when girls were first admitted. As a government school, it follows the standard SSPA admission system with a discretionary-place quota.

St. Francis Canossian College was founded by the Canossian Sisters in Wan Chai in 1869, making it one of Hong Kong's longest-established Catholic girls' schools. It is a government-aided school — one of a small number of aided English-medium secondary schools in Hong Kong — and the majority of its admitted students are Band 1.

Raimondi College opened in 1958, named in memory of Bishop Timoteo Raimondi. Founded as a boys' school, it became a fully aided (subsidized) school in 1978 and began admitting girls into Secondary 1 in 2008. The school is located at No. 2 Robinson Road in the Mid-Levels, Central and Western District.