Tutoring in Islands: 25 Primary and 16 Secondary Schools, Transport and Study Resources

2026-10-28

Tutoring by district · Islands

Islands has 129 schools: 25 primary and 16 secondary, a shortfall of 9 (-36.0%), the second steepest in the city after Central and Western, and the fewest secondary schools of any district. Private schools reach 97, or 75.2%, the highest share in the city, against only 26 aided schools (20.2%), 1 government school and no ESF school at all.

1. The school structure of Islands

The table below lists every school in Islands from the EDB school location data of October 2026, split by type. Hong Kong had 3496 schools at the same date, so this district accounts for 3.7%.

Item	Number	Note
All schools	129	primary, secondary and kindergarten combined
Primary schools	25	19.4% of the district
Secondary schools	16	12.4% of the district
Kindergartens	63	48.8% of the district
Aided schools	26	20.2% of the district
Direct-subsidy schools	2	own curriculum and fee scale
Government schools	1	run directly by the EDB
ESF schools	0	English as the main medium
Private (incl. kindergartens)	97	75.2% of the district
Private independent schools	3	private international curriculum

2. Primary schools in the district

Islands has 25 primary schools. The first 12 are listed below, ordered by school type; all names come from the EDB open data.

School	Type	Religion	Gender
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN CHINA TAI O PRIMARY SCHOOL	Aided	Christian	Co-ed
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN CHINA CHEUNG CHAU CHURCH KAM KONG PRIMARY SCHOOL	Aided	Christian	Co-ed
HONG CHI SHIU PONG MORNINGHOPE SCHOOL(PRIMARY SECTION)	Aided	None	Co-ed
NORTHERN LAMMA SCHOOL	Aided	None	Co-ed
HO YU COLLEGE AND PRIMARY SCHOOL (SPONSORED BY SIK SIK YUEN)	Aided	Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist	Co-ed
KWOK MAN SCHOOL	Aided	None	Co-ed
PO ON COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION WAN HO KAN PRIMARY SCHOOL	Aided	None	Co-ed
THE SALVATION ARMY LAM BUTT CHUNG MEMORIAL SCHOOL	Aided	Christian	Co-ed
BUI O PUBLIC SCHOOL	Aided	None	Co-ed
TUNG CHUNG CATHOLIC SCHOOL	Aided	Catholic	Co-ed
MUI WO SCHOOL	Aided	None	Co-ed
S.K.H. WEI LUN PRIMARY SCHOOL	Aided	Christian	Co-ed

3. Secondary schools in the district

Islands has 16 secondary schools; the first 12 are listed here in the same order.

School	Type	Religion	Gender
PO LEUNG KUK MRS MA KAM MING-CHEUNG FOOK SIEN COLLEGE	Aided	None	Co-ed
HONG CHI SHIU PONG MORNINGHOPE SCHOOL(SECONDARY SECTION)	Aided	None	Co-ed
HO YU COLLEGE AND PRIMARY SCHOOL (SPONSORED BY SIK SIK YUEN)	Aided	Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist	Co-ed
CARITAS WU CHENG-CHUNG COLLEGE	Aided	Catholic	Co-ed
CARITAS CHAN CHUN HA FIELD STUDIES CENTRE	Aided	Catholic	Co-ed
CARITAS CHAN CHUN HA FIELD STUDIES CENTRE	Aided	Catholic	Co-ed
TUNG CHUNG CATHOLIC SCHOOL	Aided	Catholic	Co-ed
LING LIANG CHURCH E WUN SECONDARY SCHOOL	Aided	Christian	Co-ed
HKFEW WONG CHO BAU SECONDARY SCHOOL	Aided	None	Co-ed
BUDDHIST FAT HO MEMORIAL COLLEGE	Direct subsidy	Buddhist	Co-ed
YMCA OF HONG KONG CHRISTIAN COLLEGE	Direct subsidy	Christian	Co-ed
CHEUNG CHAU GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOL	Government	None	Co-ed

4. Three things the numbers say

Sixteen secondary schools is the lowest count in Hong Kong and 9 fewer than the 25 primary schools (-36.0%); outside Tung Chung, Cheung Chau has 3 schools, Tai O 2, Mui Wo 2 and Lamma 1, so the ferry route is the school net.
Private schools reach 97 (75.2%), the highest of the 18 districts, but 63 are kindergartens; all 3 private independent schools belong to Discovery College in Discovery Bay, which together with Discovery Bay International and Montessori forms a second private cluster outside Tung Chung.
Aided schools are 26 (20.2%), government 1 (Cheung Chau Government Secondary), direct-subsidy 2 (Buddhist Fat Ho Memorial and YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College); with no ESF school in the district, international curricula mean the private route.

Religion and gender: None 68, Christian 32, Catholic 16, Buddhist 7. Boys-only schools 0, girls-only 0, co-educational 129. Single-gender schools are few, yet this is the first column most families ask about.

5. Getting around the district

Main MTR stations: Tung Chung and Sunny Bay stations, ferries from Central to Cheung Chau, Mui Wo and Yung Shue Wan, and buses for Tai O. Door-to-door travel between a school and a lesson usually stays under half an hour; when a timetable leaves only one free hour, an online lesson beats crossing stations.

Fix the school station first, then the tutor station, and only then look at travel time: inside one district the difference between stations can reach twenty minutes.

6. Lesson-prep guides that match

Tutoring does not start from nothing. Each guide below names the prior knowledge, a 45 or 60 minute lesson flow, a read-aloud script and an exit check, so tutor and parent can follow one process.

Resource	What it covers
Lesson-prep guides, full index	one page per chapter, with a read-aloud script
Primary maths guides	20 chapters: fractions, area, rate, percentages
Primary English guides	12 chapters: grammar, reading, writing
Primary Chinese guides	12 chapters: comprehension, punctuation, rhetoric
Primary general studies guides	8 chapters: health, environment, science
Secondary (DSE) guides	ten subjects, 60-minute chapters mapped to DSE
IB guides	maths AA, biology and economics: method and evaluation

7. Common questions

How many primary and secondary schools are there in Islands?

The EDB data of October 2026 lists 25 primary schools, 16 secondary schools and 63 kindergartens in Islands, 129 schools in total.

How do families on Cheung Chau arrange tutoring?

The ferry to Central takes about 55 minutes, or 35 by fast ferry, so a weekday cross-harbour lesson is impractical; with only one secondary school on the island, most families study online.

Are there single-sex schools in Islands?

None. All 129 schools are co-educational, one of five districts with no single-sex school, alongside Yuen Long, Sai Kung, Tai Po and North.

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School data comes from the EDB School Location and Information open data, October 2026 snapshot: school names, type, religion and gender only, with no admission, results or ranking figures. Compiled by the TutorZone team.