Sir Ellis Kadoorie (S) Primary School

Sir Ellis Kadoorie (S) Primary School (Chinese: 官立嘉道理爵士小學) is a government-operated public primary school in So Kon Po, Wan Chai District, Hong Kong.

[1] Sir Ellis Kadoorie built the school to educate residents of South Asian origin.

[4] On 16 October 1916 the Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians was created by the Governor of Hong Kong.

[3] It resumed operations on 11 February 1946; the majority of students were ethnic Chinese with relatively few of South Asian descent.

[7] The Hong Kong government officially designated the A.M. school as being for South Asians effective 1 September 1953.

Other students had origins from Burma (Myanmar), Korea, Nepal, the Philippines, Portugal, and Thailand.

"[12] In 1953, after the school became English medium, Chinese and both registers of Hindustani were available as non-English languages.