Hong Kong
Kellett School Moves Its Sixth Form to a Dedicated Kowloon Bay Campus
The independent British school has opened a standalone sixth form centre at The Bay Hub, giving 240 senior students their own facility as Hong Kong's appetite for dedicated A Level environments keeps growing.
Kellett School has opened a bespoke Sixth Form Centre at The Bay Hub in Kowloon Bay, marking the first time the school has given its senior students a fully separate campus. The two-floor facility, spanning 3,716 square metres and connected to the existing Kowloon Bay campus by a footbridge, opened this August with capacity for 240 students, according to Little Steps Asia.
The centre occupies the upper floors of The Bay Hub on Kai Cheung Road, a commercial development in the heart of the Kowloon Bay commercial district. Kellett signed the lease last year through property agents JLL, securing one of the larger educational annexe deals in the city in recent memory.
University-style from day one
The design explicitly models a university environment. More than a dozen classrooms sit alongside open study areas for independent and group work, a small lecture theatre, and dedicated rooms for higher education counselling. A Harkness-style seminar room is central to the layout, reflecting the discussion-based pedagogy the school has been building toward across the senior years. A PE theory classroom equipped with fitness monitoring technology completes the offer.
The inaugural cohort, Kellett's current Year 12 students, are the first to use the new facility. The school offers both A Levels and the IB Diploma Programme at sixth form, and the centre was designed to accommodate both tracks without compromise.
Broader context
The Kowloon Bay opening coincides with Kellett's fiftieth anniversary. The school is also planning a significant refurbishment of its original Pok Fu Lam campus, meaning two of its three sites are being upgraded or expanded in the same year. The timing places Kellett alongside Nord Anglia, which opened its own new Hung Hom sixth form centre this term, as part of a broader push by Hong Kong's British-curriculum schools to create purpose-built environments for senior students rather than converting existing secondary-school space. Demand for A Level places from both local families and the expatriate community has remained robust even as overall school rolls in the city have contracted.