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La Salle College

La Salle College
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喇沙書院
Location
18 La Salle Road, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Coordinates 22°19′45.11″N 114°10′56.93″E / 22.3291972°N 114.1824806°E / 22.3291972; 114.1824806Coordinates: 22°19′45.11″N 114°10′56.93″E / 22.3291972°N 114.1824806°E / 22.3291972; 114.1824806
Information
Type Grant School (Financially aided school)
Motto FIDES ET OPERA
("Faith and Zeal")
Established 1932
Founder St. John Baptist de La Salle
School district Kowloon
Principal Tong Wun-Sing
Faculty 87 teachers
Grades Form 1 – Form 6
Enrolment about 1680
Number of students 1667
Campus 29,000 m²
Colour(s)

Purple, white and red

            
Newspaper The Lasallian
Yearbook The Lasallite
Affiliation Roman Catholic
Website

Purple, white and red

La Salle College (LSC; Chinese: 喇沙書院, Cantonese jyutping: laa3 sa1 syu1 jyun2) is a highly selective boys' secondary school in Hong Kong. It was established by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a Roman Catholic religious teaching order founded by St. John Baptist de La Salle.

The school curriculum uses English as the medium of instruction in all subjects with the exception of Chinese-related subjects and French.

In 1917 the Brothers of the Christian Schools, who had founded St. Joseph's College in 1875, opened a junior school on Chatham Road near the Rosary Church. At this time Kowloon was expanding rapidly. The demand for schools was rising and Brother Aimar Sauron, the Director of St. Joseph's, realized that a new school building was necessary. He acquired a large plot near Prince Edward Road as a site for the new La Salle College in 1928. The site was immediately north of the city boundary, and thus was technically in New Kowloon. That section of Boundary Street was not yet a formal road when the school site was bought, and was only gazetted in 1929.

On 5 November 1930, Sir William Peel, the Governor of Hong Kong, laid the foundation stone of the new building. By 3 December 1931, the work on the building and the playgrounds was sufficiently advanced to allow the opening of eight classes for 303 pupils, under the management of five brothers from St. Joseph's College and four assistant masters from the Chatham Road School.


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