Mu Kuang English School

Coordinates: 22°19′06″N 114°13′07″E / 22.3184°N 114.2187°E / 22.3184; 114.2187

Mu Kuang English School

A view of a six-storey concrete school building on a steep hillside road

Pursuit of knowledge, truth, love, and light.
Location
Kung Lok Road, Kwun Tong
Information
Type Direct Subsidy Scheme
Opened 1954
Founder Elsie Elliott
Principal Mr. Lee Yet Chil
Faculty 72
Forms 1 to 6
Website www.mukuang.edu.hk

The Mu Kuang English School (Chinese: 慕光英文書院) is a secondary school on Kung Lok Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is a non-government school funded under the Direct Subsidy Scheme.

History

The school was founded by Elsie Elliott in Kai Tak New Village in 1954 with an enrolment of 30 squatter and refugee children.[1] Classes were held under makeshift canopies, and Elliott supported the school financially by teaching in other schools.[2] Andrew Tu Hsueh-kwei, whom Elliott married in 1985, became headmaster of the school. The school accommodation was doubled in size in 1958 thanks to a donation from Mr. N.V.A. Croucher.[3]

Owing to the "extreme poverty and suffering" in the area, the school staff tried to undertake relief work near the school. A simple clinic was set up at the school for emergency treatment.[4] A formal social welfare clinic, offering medical services and distribution of relief food, was set up at the school with the assistance of members of the Guild of Saint Helena in 1959.[4]

About five years afters its founding, the school moved to occupy two storeys of a building on Nga Tsin Wai Road. It later expanded with two branches, on Lion Rock Road and Prince Edward Road respectively. The school took out an interest-free government loan of $2 million and raised an additional $600,000 to build a permanent school building.[2]

On 28 November 1972, the new 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2) school building was opened on Kung Lok Road, Kwun Tong by the Director of Education, J. Canning.[2] It was built to accommodate 1,400 pupils.[2]

Description

Mu Kuang English School is a co-ed institution with media of instruction of English and Chinese.[5] As of 2015, the school has a staff of 72 teachers.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Navy Wives' Gift To Elliott School". South China Morning Post. 28 February 1959. p. 9.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "School's new move". South China Morning Post. 29 November 1972. p. 10.
  3. ↑ "Mu Kuang School Christmas Party". South China Morning Post. 23 December 1958. p. 9.
  4. 1 2 "New welfare centre: Clinic Facilities And Relief For Needy In Kowloon City Village". South China Morning Post. 4 September 1959. p. 4.
  5. 1 2 "Mu Kuang English School" (PDF). Committee on Home-School Co-operation. Retrieved 7 May 2016.

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