Official Hong Kong education data
Understanding official SEN support data
Read SEN and special-education trends without ranking schools or adding categories that may overlap.
Do not total these rowsA student can be recorded under more than one SEN type. The official table is shown category by category.
Understanding official SEN support data
| SEN type | Primary students | School year |
| Intellectual Developmental Disorder (IDD) | 1,340 | 2025/26 |
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| Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) | 7,680 | 2025/26 |
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| Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) | 6,030 | 2025/26 |
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| Mental Illness (MI) | 210 | 2025/26 |
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| Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) | 14,100 | 2025/26 |
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| Physical Disability (PD) | 70 | 2025/26 |
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| Visual Impairment (VI) | 40 | 2025/26 |
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| Hearing Impairment (HI) | 390 | 2025/26 |
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| Speech and Language Impairment (SLI) | 3,960 | 2025/26 |
Questions to take to a school visit
- Who is the school’s SENCO, and how are kindergarten assessment reports handed over before P1?
- How will the school explain support goals, progress and classroom adjustments to parents?
- What arrangements are available for learning, homework, tests, communication and emotional regulation?
Open EDB SENSE parent resources
Number of Students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) in Public Sector Ordinary Primary and Secondary Schools by School Level and SEN Type
- Data period
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- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26
- Provider
- Education Bureau
What this tells youReported SEN student counts by school level, type and year.
What this cannot tell youSEN categories may overlap and must not be summed without dictionary support.
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Key Statistics on Special Education
- Data period
- 2025/26
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26
- Provider
- Education Bureau
What this tells youTerritory-wide special education schools, classes, enrolment and teachers.
What this cannot tell youAggregate provision does not show the suitability of an individual school.
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Student Enrolment in Special Education (Including Special Classes in Ordinary Schools) by Level
- Data period
- 2024
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26
- Provider
- Education Bureau
What this tells youSpecial-education enrolment by education level.
What this cannot tell youThe table does not rank SEN support quality.
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Primary School Profiles
- Data period
- 2024, 2021, 2025
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26
- Provider
- Committee on Home-School Co-operation
What this tells youOfficial CHSC school profile facts and reported class totals.
What this cannot tell youThe fields do not measure school quality, popularity or admission probability.
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How to use these figures
Contains information provided by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the named provider through DATA.GOV.HK. Figures retain their official data period; retrieval date is shown separately.
Enrolment, class size, staff, fees, facilities and SEN reporting are context. They are never converted into a quality score, popularity label, ranking or admission probability.
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