West Island School

West Island School
West Island School as viewed from Queen Mary Hospital on Pokfulam Road Strength from Diversity
Location
250 Victoria Road Pokfulam Hong Kong
Information
Type	Private, International, Secondary School, (Co-educational)
Established	1991
School district	Southern
Principal	Christopher Sammons
Enrollment	1200
Years Publication	Year 7-13 Vision: Your School, Your Voice
Website	www.wis.edu.hk

West Island School (WIS; Chinese: 西島中學) is a co-educational, private, international secondary school in Hong Kong that provides an English medium education to students from age eleven to eighteen. The campus is a purpose-built development located at 250 Victoria Road, Pokfulam on the slopes of Mount Davis, Hong Kong Island. The school is reputed for its strong academic, matriculation and athletic record, providing students of all abilities with a "modern liberal education" based on British-influenced International curricula. Students from Years 7-9 study the West Island School Middle Years Diploma; students in Years 10-11 follow the IGCSE program; and students in Years 12-13 follow the IB Diploma curricula. The school is a member of the English Schools Foundation, and as such still receives a small but symbolic subvention from the Government that has been frozen since the 1997 Handover of Hong Kong.

West Island School began when the English Schools Foundation recognised a need for a new school on Hong Kong Island in the late-1980s; after Island School and South Island School. This was because of the recent residential boom in Discovery Bay, then which had no secondary school to cater for the growing need of secondary school education. After government approval of a site and funding in November 1990, plans for West Island School began in earnest, with the school operating as an offshoot of Island School at a temporary home; the old military hospital in Borrett Road, Mid-Levels. [1]