| Tin Shui Wai Government Secondary School (TSWGSS) 天水圍官立中學 (天官) | |
|---|---|
Tin Shui Wai Government Secondary School | |
| Location | |
| Phase II Tin Yiu Estate , Tin Shui Wai , Yuen Long New Territories | |
| Information | |
| Type | Government |
| Established | 1990 |
| School district | Yuen Long District |
| Principal | MR. Kwok Kin Wa |
| Staff | 60 |
| Number of students | 1,100 |
| Language | Chinese |
| Area | approx. 5,400 Sq. M |
| Affiliation | Government |
| Website | http://www.tswgss.edu.hk/ |
Tin Shui Wai Government Secondary School or TSWGSS was established in 1990. It is located in Tin Yiu Estate in Tin Shui Wai, a part of Hong Kong. Having adopted the policy of inclusive education, it is a co-educational grammar school. TSWGSS is a nominated secondary school of Tin Shui Wai Government Primary School. [1]
Tin Shui Wai New Town is in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong. Originally a gei wai fish pond area, it was developed in the 1980s as the second new town in Yuen Long District and the eighth in Hong Kong. It is 25 kilometres due northwest of Central, Victoria, Hong Kong on land reclaimed from low-lying areas south of Deep Bay, next to historic Ping Shan. As of 2014, the new town had a population of 292,000, while the total projected population for when the town is fully built-out is about 306,000.
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and commonly abbreviated as HK, is a special administrative region on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China. With over 7.4 million people of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the world's fourth most densely populated region.
TSWGSS was first built in Au Tau in Yuen Long in 1990. It has moved to Tin Shui Wai since 1992. Medium of instruction in junior forms had been switched from English to Chinese starting from September 1998. [2] The TSWGSS campus is next to Yuen Long Lutheran Secondary School, which shares the same location in parts of TSWGSS.
Yuen Long, formerly romanised as Un Long, is an area and town on the Yuen Long Plain located in the western New Territories, Hong Kong. To its west lie Hung Shui Kiu (洪水橋), Tin Shui Wai, Lau Fau Shan and Ha Tsuen, to the south Shap Pat Heung and Tai Tong, to the east Au Tau and Kam Tin (錦田), and to the north Nam Sang Wai.
