ESF Kindgarten

Dear Members,

According to the priority list, ESF kindergarten will fall into the category 4. However, the most important factor is fluent English. I know a friend who is a returnee from Canada. His daughter has completed the whole study in Tsing Yi ESF kindergarden from K1. Finally, his daughter is still rejected by ESF Kowloon Junior School as she do not have achieved the required English standard. I learnt from him that only four students of Tsing Yi ESF kindergarten can enter the real ESF schools in that year. Most of the students are promoted to Phoenix International School.

On the other hand, the school always claims that over 95% of their students enter ESF schools. In fact, there are quite a lot difference between real ESF and Phoenix schools. The main different are :

1. Real ESF schools use British Curriculum.

Phoenix uses Canadian one as the former of this school is Canadian Overseas International School which is suddenly closed in few years ago.

2. The real ESF school is run by ESF under the Hong Kong Ordinance and subsidized by Hong Kong Government.

Phoenix and all ESF kindergardens are run by ESF Educational Services Ltd which is a private organization. This may be the reason why their tuition fee is higher.


Best Regards,
bbtung