North London Collegiate School to Open Kowloon Campus in September

North London Collegiate School is opening a co-educational primary campus in Kowloon in September 2026, adding Hong Kong to an international network that already includes Dubai, Singapore, Jeju, Kobe, and Phuket. According to NLCS International, the school is entering the city in partnership with HOEH Ltd, a Hong Kong-based group whose investors bring backgrounds in schools, law, and property development.

Initial intake will focus on Grades 1 to 4, with approximately 200 students expected in the opening year. Annual fees are predicted at around HK$230,000, placing NLCS in the upper-middle tier of the city's international school market. The school will operate as a co-educational institution, following the model of all other NLCS campuses outside London, where the founding school remains girls-only.

Reputation it arrives with

The UK campus consistently ranks among the top performers globally for IB results, and its international counterparts in Singapore and Jeju have built strong academic reputations in their respective markets. Gwen Byrom, Director of Education Strategy at NLCS International, said the school was delighted to be working with HOEH to bring NLCS's unique blend of academic ambition and individual support for every child to Hong Kong.

For families weighing the school, the question will be how quickly a campus opening with Grades 1 to 4 can demonstrate the full pipeline that NLCS's name implies. The school will need to build its secondary years from the ground up, a process that typically takes six to eight years before a first IGCSE or IB cohort can graduate.

The market it enters

NLCS arrives at an unusually active moment in Hong Kong's international school sector. YK Pao School opened its first Hong Kong campus in August 2026, Nord Anglia International School launched a new Sixth Form Centre in Hung Hom the same month, and the English Schools Foundation opened three new kindergartens across the city. Adding a further name at primary level increases choice for families, but it also raises the competition for the pool of internationally mobile children who might otherwise enrol at an established school.

Families interested in the September 2026 entry can register through the school's website, with the admissions process expected to proceed ahead of the term start.