Montessori considers secondary school
Founders say they may expand tuition once their new Stanley campus is up and running
The International Montessori School will consider offering secondary education in a few years, its founders said, as it prepares to expand to a campus in Stanley.
The school recently secured the Stanley site through a government allocation scheme. It has already moved four times in the past decade.
The new site of 4,730 square metres doubles the size of the school's current campus in Tin Hau and will be able to accommodate 700 primary students.
School founders Karin Ann and Anne Sawyer said they would start with 200 pupils at the Stanley campus in the new term beginning in September. The Tin Hau campus would continue to operate with 300 pupils.
They expected the expansion to be completed in three to five years, at which time they aimed to have 700 pupils in Stanley.
The school provides kindergarten and primary education at present, with most pupils going to other international schools for secondary tuition. Sawyer said they were sometimes asked by parents when they would open a secondary school. "Our answer was always 'Let's get a permanent site for the primary school secured first'. And we have that now, so we will be exploring what's next once we have Stanley up and going," she said.