| St. Louis School | |
| Motto: | Scientia et Pietas ("Knowledge and Piety") |
| Streetaddress: | 179 Third Street |
| Region: | Sai Ying Pun |
| Country: | Hong Kong |
| Schooltype: | Secondary school |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic |
| Patron: | St Aloysius |
| Established: | (as West Point Reformatory) |
| Founder: | Fathers of the Catholic Mission |
| Authority: | Society of St. Francis de Sales a.k.a. Salesians of Don Bosco |
| Principal: | Dr. Victor Yick Ho-Kuen (易浩權博士) (BSc, PGDE, MEd, MA, DEd) |
| Teaching Staff: | 55 |
| Grades: | S.1 - S.6 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Enrolment: | 710 (2021 school year) |
| Medium: | English |
| Houses: | Rose, Tulip, Thistle, Shamrock, Lily |
| Song: | "All Hail, All Hail" |
| Publication: | Aloysians |
| Alumni: | SLOBA, St Louis Old Boys’ Association |
| President: | Rev. Fr. Dr. Matthew Chan Hung-Kee 陳鴻基神父, B.A. (Hons), B.T.(Hons), M.Ed., D.Ed. (Hons) (Supervisor) |
| Campus Size: | 10,000 m² |
| School Colours: | Red, blue, white |
| Feeders: | St Louis School (Primary Section) |
| Free Label1: | Scout Group |
| Free Text1: | 16th Hong Kong Group |
| Homepage: | http://www.stlouis.edu.hk |
St. Louis School, located in Sai Ying Pun (historically West Point, Hong Kong) is a privately run, Catholic primary and (government-subsidized) secondary English grammar school. There are currently about 800 secondary students and 350 primary school students.
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.[1]
St. Louis School was founded in 1864 by the Fathers of the Catholic Mission; St Aloysius was chosen as the patron of the school.[2] 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, Bishop Pozzoni, the ordinary of Hong Kong, requested 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 line, and seven years later when the Paris Foreign Missions Society started their celebrated 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.
Early in 1926, Maryknoll's father superior and one of the co-founders, Fr James Anthony Walsh, made a visitation of his fledgling mission fields in South China and spent some weeks in Hong Kong before visiting Kongmoon (now called Jiangmen) and Kaying (in Meixian). In the course of his stay, the position of the industrial school was reviewed and it was eventually handed back to the diocese.
In 1927, the school was given to the Salesian Fathers and has been run by them since then.[3] The year 1927 is now regarded as the founding year of today's school.[2] The school was transformed from a vocational school to an English grammar school in 1948.[3]
The primary section of St Louis School was particularly famous in the 1970s and the 1980s, for it won almost all the inter-school quiz competitions organized by Radio Television Hong Kong.
The school consists of four wings: East, North, Central and West. The oldest one is the East Wing (Block A), which was built in 1936. The North Wing was damaged by a typhoon in 1942, and a new building was subsequently erected.[3] The Central and West Wings were constructed and opened in 1941 and 1967, respectively.[2]
The school's sports facilities include a football playground (with a stand for about 1,100 people), a basketball court and a covered playground. The football playground is the largest among those of all the schools in West Point.
The badge of St Louis School embodies a profound philosophy through the simplicity of its design.[4]
The school song 'All Hail, All Hail' was written by Rev Fr Janssen in 1957.
FATHERS:
BROTHERS:
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".[5] St. Louis School is part of the Central and Western Heritage Trail, Western District and the Peak Route.[2]