King's College, Hong Kong

King's College, Hong Kong Chinese: 英皇書院
Meticulous thoughts, Diligent actions Chinese: 慎思篤行
Location
63A Bonham Road, Mid-Levels,  Hong Kong
Information
Type	Public, single-sex
Religious affiliation(s)	Non-sectarian
Established	1857 (West Point School) 1879 (Saiyingpun School) 1926 (King's college)
Founders	Reginald Edward Stubbs Mr. Alfred Morris
Principal	Mrs. Chan Woo Mei-hou, Nancy
Staff	~60
Grades	Form 1(G7) – Form 6(G12)
Number of students	~800 students
Language	English
Color(s)	King's crimson
Newspaper	The Bridge
Yearbook	The Fig Tree
Website	http://www.kings.edu.hk

63A Bonham Road,

King's College, Hong Kong (Chinese: 英皇書院), often informally referred to simply as King's or K.C., is a highly selective single-sex boys' government-funded secondary school located at 63A Bonham Road, Mid-levels, Hong Kong. Nowaday, King's College in Hong Kong serves as a secondary education institution for pupils from Form 1 to Form 6, which is equivalent to US Grade 7 to 12.

King's College has its own humble prequel known as West Point School which was established at West Point next to the West Point Police Station in 1857, shortly after the colonial history of Hong Kong began in 1841. West Point School is the precursor of Saiyingpun School and His Excellency King's College. The boys' school was a free village school supported by the Government stand as well as one of the earliest government schools in Hong Kong.

There was a great impetus to the study of English in the educational aspects in 1878 that Governor Hennessy advocated the enhancement of English Language and English speaking among the natives of Hong Kong. Hence, English teaching was introduced in the course of the year in Saiyingpun School and finally the establishment of a Method Class with a view to train the Chinese teachers of English for employment in the Village Schools was begun. The Acting Inspector of Schools stated that he felt confident that it will sooner or later be found necessary to enlarge the teaching staff in order to meet the demand for English teaching in this school. Therefore, Saiyingpun School was established in 1879 because of the above policy. Indeed, among all the present government schools, it had the longest school history amounted to 159 years. West Point referred to the location of the shore off the Pokfulam Road and Queen's Road West, approximately the junction of Western Street and Des Voeux Road West near the Western Police Station.

The first Principal started from 1859 was Li King-chau, who died in 1870. Cha Lun-kok and Chu Atuk were the teachers. The latter was appointed to teach English in the school and also taught in Taipingshan Government School. The government recognized the Punti school had always been a very good school that led by the school master Mr. Li during the ten years. The school had been admirably taught and its academic work was well done. Although Geography as well as Composition was the weak subjects compared with other schools, all other aspects were very satisfactory. The Saiyingpun Punti School ranked as good in 1877.