[1] Its students included local Han Chinese and Macanese as well as children of Portuguese government officials.

[1] Circa 1998 the school occupied a campus in central Macau that had been designed by a well-known Portuguese architect.

She added that the faculty received good salaries and benefits and that the campus was among the most lavish and expensive to maintain.

A large percentage of the students matriculated to universities with the majority moving on to European institutions, including those in Portugal itself.

Clayton concluded that the school "reflected the conditions of advantage enjoyed by the Portuguese in Macau".