Good Hope School is one of the traditional direct subsidy female schools in Hong Kong, belonging to the Band 1A category (secondary school), located in Sha Tin Road, Kowloon. The kindergarten, primary school and secondary school are all located in the same building, with English as the main teaching language and students consistently ranking at the top of their class. In the DSE results, the school performed exceptionally well in English, with 63% achieving level 5 or above in 2021. The school has outstanding academic achievements and a simple and honest school spirit that is hard to resist.
Good Hope School was founded in 1954 and has a Catholic background. It is a traditional direct subsidy female school where students excel in both academics and extracurricular activities. Good Hope Secondary School produced one 7-subject 5** top scorer each in 2013 and 2018, with the female top scorer in 2013, Hui Yan Kei, achieving 5** in the extended part of the mathematics course and becoming one of the two "super top scorers" that year.
The school has excellent performances in inter-school music festivals, recitation festivals and athletics competitions, with the Good Hope School choir, which has a history of 60 years, often winning local and overseas competitions.
Good Hope School, along with Diocesan Girls' School and Heep Yunn School, three famous female schools, stand together in the Kowloon district. The goal of Good Hope is to cultivate a new generation of female leaders, and this goal has never wavered. For many years, the school has focused on diverse education, cultivating students' personal potential, leadership skills, critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and public speaking skills, allowing them to have a global outlook.
"Once a Good Hoper, Forever a Good Hoper" is Good Hope's motto, meaning that students should use the core values of "love, hope, joy, and gratitude" throughout their lives. In addition to focusing on academic achievements, moral character is equally important.
Good Hope School emphasizes STEAM education that combines science and art to cultivate students' interests. For many years, the school has focused on cultivating students' personal potential, leadership, language, and communication skills to cultivate a new generation of female leaders. With the reopening of Good Hope Kindergarten in 2010, it once again became a "one-stop-shop" female school for kindergarten, primary and secondary education, making it extremely attractive to parents who love this type of school.
Small class teaching is adopted for Chinese, English, mathematics and religious subjects in Form 1 and Form 2 to allow students to have higher participation and expression opportunities. Good Hope also admits foreign students, as the school provides an all-English learning environment where communication is barrier-free. With English as the main teaching language, it is a direct subsidy female school in Wong Tai Sin. The category is estimated to be Band 1A.
Good Hope has won many awards overseas and locally, with the choir and athletics team having the most outstanding performances. Every year, the Department of Justice invites the Good Hope choir to perform at the "Legal Year Opening Ceremony" for the Secretary for Justice, Court of Final Appeal judges, and members of the Bar Association. The Good Hope choir has won many international awards and has an unparalleled status.
The Good Hope Athletics Team is also a dominant force in school competitions. In the past, they have won the "Hong Kong and Kowloon Inter-School Athletics Competition" Group 1 overall championship 18 times. The Good Hope Swimming Team also has remarkable achievements, and the school has a swimming pool for students to practice.
The school facilities include a multimedia learning center, visual arts room, social work room, swimming pool, lecture hall, library, technology and life room, geography room, science laboratory, campus television room and multi-purpose classroom. All classrooms are equipped with air conditioning, computers and projectors.
Currently, there are some students from Good Hope School in Hong Kong using IPISCHOOL for mathematics learning with good results.
Wishing all IPISchool students at Good Hope School achieve better grades.