Peak School

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Peak School
山頂小學
Main gate of Peak School
Location
20 Plunkett's Road
Hong Kong
Coordinates 22°16′2″N 114°9′10″E / 22.26722°N 114.15278°E / 22.26722; 114.15278Coordinates: 22°16′2″N 114°9′10″E / 22.26722°N 114.15278°E / 22.26722; 114.15278
Information
Type Private
Established 1911
Principal Bill Garnett
Grades 1–6
Enrollment 360
Language English
Website http://www.ps.edu.hk

Peak School (Chinese: 山頂小學; pinyin: Shāndǐng xiǎoxué) is an English language international primary school, located on Plunkett's Road on Victoria Peak, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The school is one of around twenty institutions in Hong Kong operated by the English Schools Foundation (ESF).[1]

The school opened in 1911, on the site of what is now the Victoria Peak Fire Station. In 1954, the school moved to its current premises located on Plunkett's Road.[2]

Peak School teaches students from Year One to Year Six, and offers the International Baccalaureate programme. The principal of Peak School is Bill Garnett.[3]

Notable former students

References

  1. Dillon, Chris (2008). Landed : the expatriate's guide to buying and renovating property in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Dillon Communications. ISBN 9881714710. 
  2. A brief history of Peak School, Peak School.
  3. IB world schools yearbook (2013 ed. ed.). Woodbridge, UK: John Catt Educational Ltd. 2013. ISBN 1908095652. 
  4. Ingham, Michael (2007). Hong Kong: a cultural history. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199724474. 
  5. John Graham: ‘Wright, Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth (1911–2005)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2009. Accessed 10 Dec 2013.

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