External School Review Reports (Concluding Chapter)

The Education Bureau (EDB) has introduced the School Development and Accountability (SDA) framework since the 2003/04 school year, with a view to supporting schools to manifest the spirit of school-based management (SBM), thereby promoting their perpetual development and self-improvement and enhancing their accountability and transparency through school self-evaluation (SSE). External School Review (ESR) has then been adopted as an external quality assurance mechanism to validate the effectiveness of the SSE.

All along, the EDB has been conducting ESR in a school-specific and focused manner. The ESR reports reflect the school performance during inspection. Upon receiving the ESR reports, schools should follow up on the suggestions provided by the ESR teams, unceasingly refine their work to increase effectiveness, and promote continuous development through self-improvement. As always, schools are required to issue the contents of the ESR report to key stakeholders; at the same time, to enhance transparency, schools are encouraged to upload the full ESR report to the school website.

To tie in with the announcement of “The Chief Executive’s 2022 Policy Address” to strengthen the SBM, the EDB launched the enhanced SDA framework to bolster the accountability of staff in publicly-funded schools in providing quality school education and enhancing the national education through the adoption of a whole-school approach. The EDB Circular No.15/2022 was issued on 11 November 2022 to inform schools of the implementation details of the enhanced SDA framework, including, amongst others, the measure that the EDB would upload the concluding chapter of the ESR reports to its website for public access starting from the 2023/24 school year to further enhance schools’ transparency and accountability. By scrutinising the concluding chapter of different ESR reports, the public can have a preliminary grasp of the overall quality of education in Hong Kong, including its advantages and strengths, and the areas for improvement.

The concluding chapter of the ESR report refers to “Chapter 4 — Conclusion and Way Forward”. The judgments and suggestions in it are in line with the contents of the full report, including the school context, overall effectiveness of school work and areas for improvement. Depending on the school context and development needs, the length of the concluding chapter and the number of suggestions given vary slightly, and it is not appropriate to make a comparison of different reports.

In order to facilitate the public’s comprehensive understanding of all aspects of school work, links to the school websites are provided in the EDB website for easy access. In addition, for schools which have informed the EDB of the uploading of the full ESR report to the school website, indications are given.

	School Name	Uploading the full ESR report to the school website
1	Aldrich Bay Government Primary School 愛秩序灣官立小學	✔
2	Caritas Resurrection School 明愛樂群學校	✔
3	Carmel Leung Sing Tak School 迦密梁省德學校	✔
4	HHCKLA Buddhist Ma Kam Chan Memorial English Secondary School 香海正覺蓮社佛教馬錦燦紀念英文中學	✔
5	Hong Kong and Macau Lutheran Church Primary School 港澳信義會小學	✔
6	Po Kok Secondary School 寶覺中學	✔
7	Po Leung Kuk Law's Foundation School 保良局羅氏信託學校	✔
8	Sha Tin Wai Dr. Catherine F. Woo Memorial School 沙田圍胡素貞博士紀念學校	✔
9	S.K.H. St. Peter's Primary School 聖公會聖彼得小學	✔
10	S.K.H. Tsang Shiu Tim Secondary School 聖公會曾肇添中學	✔
11	Stewards Pooi Tun Secondary School 香港神託會培敦中學	✔
12	The Church of Christ in China Kei Tsz Primary School 中華基督教會基慈小學	✔
13	TIACC Woo Hon Fai Secondary School 紡織學會美國商會胡漢輝中學	✔
14	Tin Shui Wai Methodist College 天水圍循道衞理中學	✔
15	Tseung Kwan O Catholic Primary School 將軍澳天主教小學	✔
16	Tsuen Wan Government Primary School 荃灣官立小學	✔
17	TWGHs Kap Yan Directors' College 東華三院甲寅年總理中學	✔
18	TWGHs Kwan Fong Kai Chi School 東華三院群芳啓智學校	✔
19	Yan Chai Hospital Lim Por Yen Secondary School 仁濟醫院林百欣中學	✔
20	Yuen Long Public Secondary School 元朗公立中學	✔