Two New Sixth Forms Open in Hong Kong as A-Level Demand Returns

Hong Kong is starting its new academic year with two dedicated sixth form centres, both offering A-Levels, as Kellett School and Nord Anglia International School Hong Kong prepare to welcome their first post-16 cohorts this August. According to The Standard, Nord Anglia's new Hung Hom centre will offer students a choice between A-Levels and the IB Diploma within the same facility, a combination the school says is the first of its kind in the city.

Kellett's Bay Hub

Kellett's centre is located at The Bay Hub on Kai Cheung Road, directly opposite the Kowloon Bay campus and connected to it by a footbridge. The two-floor facility spans 3,716 square metres and is designed for up to 240 students in Years 12 and 13. Students study three or four A-Level subjects over two years, sitting final examinations at the end of Year 13. In 2025, 81 students sat A-Levels at Kellett, with 60.6 per cent achieving A* or A grades, and the school expects the purpose-built sixth form environment to sustain and build on that benchmark.

NAIS doubles down on choice

Nord Anglia's Hung Hom centre takes a different approach. Principal Tim Richardson has described the dual offering as giving students "even greater flexibility to pursue the academic route that best matches their individual strengths." The school is also launching a Sixth Form Scholarship Programme, recognising academic performance, leadership, and community involvement, open to both current pupils and new applicants. Admissions to the Hung Hom centre are already open.

The dual opening matters because Hong Kong's international school sixth forms have been IB-dominated for more than a decade. Parents have increasingly sought deeper subject specialisation rather than the IB's breadth requirement, and A-Levels, which concentrate study across three or four subjects, suit students with clear university ambitions, particularly those targeting science, engineering, or law programmes at British institutions.

Both schools serve a market that draws from expatriate families and from local affluent households committed to a British curriculum pathway through to university entrance. For families choosing between the two new centres, the decision is likely to rest on programme preference: Kellett offers a focused A-level-only track; NAIS lets students make the IB or A-level call at 16, after their IGCSEs, rather than earlier. The Hung Hom location also gives Nord Anglia better Kowloon coverage than its existing campus.

The two openings come after an already busy year for British curriculum expansion in Hong Kong, which has also seen NLCS launch its Kowloon campus and the English Schools Foundation open three new kindergartens. The pace of new provision, at both ends of the age range, points to sustained demand across both the expatriate and local affluent segments of the market rather than a temporary spike.