St. George's School in

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opened in 1955 to serve the educational needs of the growing population of

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armed forces personnel and civil servants in the colony. It closed in 1996 in preparation for the 1997 handover of Hong Kong. A new school, the Australian International School Hong Kong, now sits partly on the Norfolk Road site vacated by the St. George's closure. The school operated a

house system The house system is a traditional feature of schools in the United Kingdom. The practice has since spread to Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth countries. The school is divided into units called "houses" and each student is allocated to on ...

. It consisted of Balmoral, Osbourne, Sandringham and Windsor houses. There was originally a Buckingham house as well. Towards the last years of the school's existence, as the number of pupils dropped, Osbourne and Windsor houses were merged, the name Osbourne was kept with the red colour of Windsor. * It was originally located at Minden Barracks,

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before being moved to its more well known address in Norfolk Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (BFPO1). * The school has a very active alumni website. The final campus was in

Kowloon Tong Kowloon Tong () is an area of Hong Kong located in Kowloon. The majority of the area is in the Kowloon City District. Its exaclocationis south of the Lion Rock, north of Boundary Street, east of the East Rail line and west of Grampian Road. It ...

. The

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was scheduled to take over the school facility circa 1995. The

English Schools Foundation The English Schools Foundation (ESF) is an organisation that runs 22 international schools in Hong Kong. It is Hong Kong's largest English-medium organisation of international schools. It was founded in 1967 with the passage of the English ...

(ESF) asked the Education and Manpower Department of Hong Kong to allow the ESF to open its own facilities in the St George's facility.

References

External links

Alumni Website
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