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St. Louis School (), in Sai Ying Pun (historically West Point, Hong Kong) is a private, Catholic primary and (government-subsidised) secondary English grammar school. There are about 800 secondary students and 350 primary school students.

History

Early history

During the 1840s, the present location of St. Louis School was the site of a small battery, called the West Point Battery or Elliot's Battery.

St. Louis School was founded in 1864 by the Fathers of the Catholic Mission; St Aloysius was chosen as the patron of the school. The school was initially known as the West Point Reformatory. The Brothers of the Christian Schools (commonly known as the La Salle Brothers) succeeded the Fathers in the management of the school in 1875 and managed the school until 1893.

In 1921, Dominic Pozzoni, the ordinary of Hong Kong, asked the Maryknoll Fathers to take over. Some of the boys were orphans while the rest were remanded by the Hong Kong government, the government giving a small monthly grant for each student. The Maryknoll Fathers renamed the school St Louis Industrial School and equipped it with a printing press. The students became expert in this, and seven years later when the Paris Foreign Missions Society started their polyglot press at Nazareth in Pokfulam, they took into their employ many of these boys.

When Brother Albert Staubli arrived, he added manual training to its curriculum in the way of carpentry. The American Maryknoller Fr James Edward Walsh, who was one of the first four American missioners to arrive in China and the last Western missioner to be released by the Communist China in 1970, spent some time at the school too. The year 1927 is now regarded as the founding year of today's school.

  • 1982-1988: Fr Luigi Rubini; 1st Supervisor
  • 1982-1986: Fr Patrick Deane; 11th Rector and Principal
  • 1988-1994: Fr Clement Wong; 2nd Supervisor
  • 1986-2016: Fr Simon Lam; 12th Principal; 3rd Supervisor 1994–2016
  • 2000-2003: Fr Alphonsus Cheng; 14th Rector
  • 2001-2002: Fr Joseph So; 13th Principal
  • 2002-2012: Fr Peter Ng; 14th Principal
  • 2012–2016: Dr Yip Wai-Ming; 15th Principal
  • 2016–Present: Fr. Matthew CHAN Hung-Kee; 4th Supervisor 2016–present
  • 2016-2021: Mr Peter Yu Lap-Fun, 16th Principal
  • 2021–present: Dr Victor Yick Ho-Kuen; 17th Principal

Conservation

The East Wing of St. Louis School, built in 1936, is listed as a Grade II historic building, "Buildings of special merit; efforts should be made to selectively preserve". St. Louis School is part of the Central and Western Heritage Trail, Western District and the Peak Route.