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schools to serve other areas in addition to the area in which they
are physically situated. All primary and secondary schools physically
situated within the boundaries of a school area together with those
secondary schools physically situated in other school areas but also
serving the school area consitute a "school net". Hong Kong Island is
divided into four school areas, Kowloon into eleven and the New Territories
into nine. The size of school nets is chiefly determined by the number of
primary schools and Primary 6 pupils: as these are made to contain a
comparable Primary 6 population, the nets vary in geographical extent.
Various factors are taken into account in determining whether schools
should serve other areas in addition to their own: these take into account
any affiliation which may exist between specific primary and secondary
schools. Notwithstanding the uneven distribution of secondary schools
this system does achieve a measure of regionalisation.
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Mention is made above of affiliation between specific primary
and secondary schools. This is an established feature of the education
system which has become formalised in allocation arrangements through
the feeder school system, which is designed to permit continuity between
primary and secondary education and to further the building up of
traditions in participating schools. The system is somewhat complicated,
but in essence it permits a parent secondary school to retain a fixed
proportion (10 or 15 per cent) of its Form 1 places and to fill these
at its own discretion: this may include allocation to the school's
own Form 1 repeaters. 85 per cent of the remaining places are then reserved for eligible feeder pupils (that is, those who have been placed
in Bands 1 or 2 and have chosen the parent school as first choice). The
remaining places are allocated by open competition, and as some feeder
students may also gain such places a very high proportion of pupils in
the parent schools are normally admitted from the feeder schools.
historical reasons there are variations of this system according to the categories of school concerned (for example, there is a "nominated
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