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Diocesan Boys' School, Hong Kong

Diocesan Boys' School
Chinese: 拔萃男書院
DBS Main Building 2.JPG
Main building of the Diocesan Boys' School
Location
Mong Kok, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Coordinates 22.322924,114.174229
Information
School type DSS,Grant School, Secondary; primary (since 2004)
Denomination Anglican Episcopal
Established 1869
Headmaster Ronnie Kay Yen Cheng
Faculty 136 teachers
Grades G7 (Form 1) – G12 (Form 6)
Language English
Campus size 50,000 m2
Colour(s) Navy blue, white and red
            
Newspaper Not Rigmarole (粹聞)
Yearbook Steps (集思)
Affiliation Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui
Website

The Diocesan Boys' School (DBS) (Chinese: 拔萃男書院) is a leading boys' school in Hong Kong, located at 131 Argyle Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious secondary schools in the city. The school's mission is "to provide a liberal education based on Christian principles". Having run as a grant-aided school since it was founded, the school commenced operation in the Direct Subsidy Scheme in September 2003. It uses English as the medium of instruction.

In 1860, Mrs Lydia Smith (the Bishop of Victoria's wife) and the FES (the Society for the Promotion of Female Education in the Far East) set up the Diocesan Native Female Training School, a day-school turned boarding school for native girls, affiliated with the Diocese of Victoria. As stated in its first annual report, the purpose of the school was "to introduce among a somewhat superior class of native females the blessings of Christianity and of religious training". The school sat on Bonham Road, a small concrete house on a paddy field. Lady Robinson (the Governor's wife) became the patron.

The school had a difficult existence. The Second Opium War aroused strong anti-British sentiment and so it was very unpopular for Chinese girls to learn English. The school was closed and then reopened under the name "Diocesan Female School", but its finances did not improve. In 1868, Bishop Charles Richard Alford took the school under his immediate superintendence.

On 30 January 1869, in a bid to gain popular support, Bishop Alford issued an appeal to admit boys into the school and to turn it into an orphanage. The appeal was well received by the public. In September, the Diocesan Home and Orphanage, for boys and girls, both foreign and Chinese, was established.

In July 1870, William Arthur, formerly of the Garrison School, was appointed as the headmaster and Mrs Arthur as the matron.

In 1878, the school was placed in the grant-in-aid scheme by the Education Department.


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