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 rows

A student can be recorded under more than one SEN type. The official table is shown category by category.

Understanding official SEN support data
SEN typePrimary studentsSchool year
Intellectual Developmental Disorder (IDD)1,3402025/26
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)7,6802025/26
Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD)6,0302025/26
Mental Illness (MI)2102025/26
Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD)14,1002025/26
Physical Disability (PD)702025/26
Visual Impairment (VI)402025/26
Hearing Impairment (HI)3902025/26
Speech and Language Impairment (SLI)3,9602025/26

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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 you

Reported SEN student counts by school level, type and year.

What this cannot tell you

SEN 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 you

Territory-wide special education schools, classes, enrolment and teachers.

What this cannot tell you

Aggregate 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 you

Special-education enrolment by education level.

What this cannot tell you

The 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 you

Official CHSC school profile facts and reported class totals.

What this cannot tell you

The 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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