Primary One Admission System

• Information Leaflet on "Primary One Admission for September 2025

• Information Note on "Primary One Admission for September 2025"  
  • Versions: English , Bahasa Indonesia , Hindi , Nepali , 
    Punjabi (Indian) , Tagalog , Thai , Urdu , Vietnamese

• Information Leaflet on "Primary One Admission for September 2025" - Applicable to Applicant Children Who Intend to Commute Daily to Schools in Hong Kong    

• POA 2025 Notes on How to Complete the "Application Form for Admission to Primary One"
  • Example of How to Complete the ‘Application Form for Admission to Primary One’ (extract from the Notes above)
    • Versions:  English ,  Bahasa Indonesia , Hindi , Nepali , 
      Punjabi (Indian) ,  Tagalog , Thai , Urdu , Vietnamese

• Primary School Profiles 

• Letter of Authorisation - Submitting of "Application Form for Admission to Primary One" (Sample for reference) 

• Frequently Asked Questions   
  
  
  

• In line with the Smart Government strategy, the EDB has fully digitalised POA. Parents who have registered as POA e-platform (ePOA) users and bound their accounts to "iAM Smart+" may submit applications and check the results for discretionary places and Central Allocation online via ePOA. The EDB encourages parents to register with "iAM Smart+" (https://www.iamsmart.gov.hk/en/reg.html) as early as possible for more convenient and faster P1 school place allocation services.
  • Public Desk: https://epoa.edb.gov.hk
  • School Desk: https://epoa.edb.gov.hk/school
  • Video and Parent's Guide on "Primary One Application e-Platform"    
    
    
    

• POA 2025 Primary School Lists by School Net for Central Allocation Stage  
  
  
  
• For Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) Applicant Children  
  • Notes to Parents
    • Versions:  English ,  Bahasa Indonesia , Hindi , Nepali , 
      Punjabi (Indian) ,  Tagalog , Thai , Urdu , Vietnamese
  • Information on Choice of Schools for Central Allocation 
    • Versions:  English ,  Bahasa Indonesia , Hindi , Nepali , 
      Punjabi (Indian) ,  Tagalog , Thai , Urdu , Vietnamese
  • Notes on How to Complete the Choice of Schools Form
    • Versions:  English ,  Bahasa Indonesia , Hindi , Nepali , 
      Punjabi (Indian) ,  Tagalog , Thai , Urdu , Vietnamese
  • Release of Results of Central Allocation
    • Versions:  English ,  Bahasa Indonesia , Hindi , Nepali , 
      Punjabi (Indian) ,  Tagalog , Thai , Urdu , Vietnamese
      
      
      

• For Applicant Children who intend to communte daily to schools in Hong Kong
  • POA 2025 Choice of Schools List for Central Allocaton 
    
    
• Letter of Authorisation - Making School Choices 
  
  

• Press Release - Parents reminded to choose primary schools under Central Allocation process for their children
  ( 6 January 2025 )  

• Press Release - Results of Primary One discretionary places to be released November 18
  ( 15 November 2024 )  

• Press Release - Parents reminded to submit application form for admission to Primary One
  ( 16 September 2024 ) 
• Press Release -  Application forms for Primary One Admission available from next Monday
  ( 29 August 2024 )

5. Reference

• Videos on "Primary One Admission System" 

• Briefing Sessions on Primary One Admission (POA) System 2025 and POA e-Platform 
  • PowerPoint on "Primary One Admission" for Parents ( 
    PDF
    )(Chinese only) 
  • PowerPoint on"Primary One Application e-Platform" for Parents  ( 
    PDF
    ) (Chinese only) 
  • PowerPoint on "Primary One Admission" for Kindergartens Principals and Teachers  ( 
    PDF
    ) (Chinese only)   
  • PowerPoint on "Primary One Application e-Platform" for Kindergartens Principals and Teachers  
     ( 
    PDF
    )  (Chinese only) 
  • PowerPoint on "Primary One Application e-Platform" for Kindergartens and Parents (Central Allocation Stage) ( 
    PDF
    )  (Chinese only)   

• PowerPoint on Education Support for NCS Students and "Primary One Admission" for Parents of Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) Students: 
  • Part I - Education Support for NCS students  (
    PDF
    )
  • Part II - "Primary One Admission"  ( 
    PDF
    )
  • Part III - Student Financial Assistance Schemes  ( 
    PDF
    ) 

• Report on Primary One Admission 2024    
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Education Bureau, School Places Allocation Section
Address:	Podium Floor, West Block, Education Bureau Kowloon Tong Education Services Centre, 19 Suffolk Road, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon
Tel. No.:	2832 7700, 2832 7740
Office Hour:	Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 6 pm

 
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