Hong Kong
Kellett School Opens a Dedicated Sixth Form Centre as Its 50th Year Begins
The parent-governed British school will move its Year 11 and 12 cohorts to a new university-style campus in Kowloon Bay this August, while simultaneously launching a major refurbishment of its Pok Fu Lam prep school.
Kellett School, Hong Kong's long-established parent-governed British international school, is weeks away from opening a purpose-built Sixth Form Centre at The Bay Hub on Kai Cheung Road in Kowloon Bay. According to the school's own announcement, the centre will open in August 2026 with capacity for 240 students and will serve as the permanent home for Years 11 and 12, connected by a footbridge to the existing Kowloon Bay campus.
The centre forms the centrepiece of Kellett's Vision 2035 strategy, a ten-year plan unveiled last year. The facilities span two floors and include over a dozen classrooms, a small lecture theatre, dedicated exam rooms, Higher Education counselling suites, and social spaces designed to mirror the independence expected at university. The school says the design was informed directly by visits to universities undertaken by its Sixth Form team.
A third campus and a refurbished prep school
The new centre will become Kellett's third campus, sitting alongside the existing Kowloon Bay site and the Pok Fu Lam preparatory school. The Pok Fu Lam campus is itself set for a multi-year refurbishment beginning this summer, covering classrooms, the library, the gym, and new music, dining and multi-learning facilities. Work is being scheduled primarily in school holidays to limit disruption.
The timing carries symbolic weight. Kellett is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, having been founded in 1976 by parents seeking a British-style education strong in the arts and sport. It remains one of a small number of Hong Kong international schools that offers A Levels rather than, or alongside, the International Baccalaureate Diploma. Its admissions page currently notes that classes for 2026/27 are full, a marker of demand in a city where British-curriculum places are tightly contested.
Hong Kong's A Level revival
Kellett's expansion arrives alongside a broader shift in Hong Kong's post-16 landscape. Nord Anglia International School is also opening a new Sixth Form centre in Hung Hom this August and introducing A Levels for the first time, giving the city two new dedicated A Level environments within weeks of each other. For families who have long weighed the IB against A Levels, the 2026 to 2027 academic year brings more options than the city has seen in years.