About Students
The Students at South Island
The students at South Island come from a very wide variety of backgrounds and cultures. Our biggest population groups are British, Canadians and Australians, with large minority groups from Korea and Japan. Thirty nations are represented in our student body. About 60% of our students are permanent ID card holders which means that they have been in Hong Kong for more than 7 years and all population groups are represented in this number. As an international school we have about a 10% turnover of students each year.
South Island is non-selective on the basis of academic ability although there is an English test to ensure that for non-native speakers, levels of written and spoken English is good enough to access the curriculum and to perform in English in advanced level exams. We reserve 21 places for students with high levels of additional learning need.
The school is coeducational with roughly even numbers of boys and girls and the students join us from the ages of 10/11 in Year 7 to 17/18 in Year 13.
Our students participate actively in their own education. Many have very high aspirations not only academically but in all other respects and there are very high levels of participation in creativity, action and service (CAS) activities throughout the school.
