About Admissions
School Zone
A zoning system operates for ESF schools. Pupils in Kennedy School are drawn mainly from the Pokfulam area. The zone also includes Babington Path, Oaklands Path, Hospital Road, Des Voeux Road, Connaught Road, Queen's Road Central (excluding the Central District hotels), Park Road, Breezy Path, Bonham Road, Caine Road and north of the Bonham/Caine Road line, Castle Road, Seymour Road, Mosque Street, Shelley Street, Robinson Road - from 97 and beyond (on the odd numbers side of the road), and 70 and beyond (on the even numbers side of the road), Kotewall Road, Lyttleton Road, University Drive, Oaklands Avenue, Chi Fu Fa Yuen, Kennedy Town, Grantham Hospital, the police Training School, Aberdeen Marina and Lantau islands. It also includes Central District north to the waterfront (excluding the hotels), Glenealy, Pedder Street, Wyndham Street, Arbuthnot Road, Hollywood Road and Queen Street, the Shun Tak Centre (including the Victoria Hotel) and the Korea Centre.
School Year
The school year is divided into three terms. The first term is from late August or September to December, the second from January to late March or April and the third from April to late June or early July. There is a long summer holiday of approximately eight weeks.
All ESF schools strictly follow the birth year to allocate the child's year group which means in ESF schools all children in a year group are born in the same calendar year. As we organise a differentiated curriculum we do not put a child in a year group above or below their chronological age.
The following year groups are for your reference for the academic year August 2008 to June 2009:
- Primary 1 - Children born in 2003
- Primary 2 - Children born in 2002
- Primary 3 - Children born in 2001
- Primary 4 - Children born in 2000
- Primary 5 - Children born in 1999
- Primary 6 - Children born in 1998
A candidate shall:
- Possess a thorough knowledge and understanding of the English language to enable him or her to benefit from a curriculum taught entirely in this language.
- Be up to the standard of the class appropriate to his or her age.
- Agree to conform to the regulations of the school and support school decisions, and
- Live within the zone designated.
Admissions to Year 1
Applications for children Born in 2004 for Academic Year 2009/2010 is now open, please visit the website.
Please visit our ESF website at http://www.esf.edu.hk for Application form download and application details.
Fees
Tuition fees are charged at all E.S.F. schools and are to be paid in full and in advance.
On offer of a place, parents will be asked to make a payment to E.S.F. of approximately two months' fees in advance. This amount will be advised to parents at the time the offer is made. It should be noted that this advance fee is not refundable if the place is not subsequently taken up. After your child's enrolement the advance fee will be deducted from the first statement of account.
Fees are adjusted annually to meet the needs of development and inflation and parents are informed of changes in fees as soon as Government authorisation is received by the E.S.F.
Parents are billed for each term's fees before the start of the term. Fees may be discharged either by meeting the whole term's fee in advance or in ten monthly instalments, also payable in advance.
In very exceptional circumstances, and only to prevent hardship, the E.S.F. is permitted to grant a Government allowance towards fees for "children who could not reasonably be required to attend another type of school in Hong Kong" where education is available either free or at a very small fee. The purpose of the allowance is to assist parents who encounter sudden and unexpected difficulties after admission. Therefore, application cannot be made prior to admission and allowances are only granted if a family's circumstances have changed after admission.
Application Procedure
Please visit our ESF website at http://www.esf.edu.hk for Application form download and application details.
