Type Direct Subsidy Scheme Principal Mr. Lee Yet Chil Website www.mukuang.edu.hk Phone +852 2341 2932 Founder Elsie Tu | Opened 1954 Forms 1 to 6 Address Hong Kong, 功樂道55號 Founded 1954 Faculty 72 | |
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Motto Pursuit of knowledge, truth, love, and light. Similar Fukien Secondary School (K, Kwun Tong Kung Lok Governm, Saint Catharine's School fo, Ko Lui Secondary School, Maryknoll Secondary School | ||
The Mu Kuang English School (Chinese: 慕光英文書院; Jyutping: mou6 gwong1 jing1 man4 syu1 jyun6) 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.
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History
The school was founded by Elsie Elliott in Kai Tak New Village in 1954 with an enrolment of 30 squatter and refugee children. Classes were held under makeshift canopies, and Elliott supported the school financially by teaching in other schools. 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.
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. 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.
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.
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. It was built to accommodate 1,400 pupils.
Description
Mu Kuang English School is a co-ed institution with media of instruction of English and Chinese. As of 2015, the school has a staff of 72 teachers.