25 May 2015
Children who have gained priority admission to primary schools under the home-school distance priority scheme will be required to live at the address for at least 30 months from the start of the Primary 1 registration exercise on July 2.
The ministry said that there are cases where families are unable to remain at the registered address for the entire duration of their children’s primary school studies. Even so, a child who gains priority admission into school by distance must still abide by the new rule, otherwise, MOE reserves the right to transfer the child to another school.
Families which have bought a yet-to-be completed property and plan to move in after it is completed, are also required to live at the new address for at least 30 months starting from the time the family moves into the property. “For example, if the child registers in 2015 and only moves into the new address in July 2017, the 30 months stay period starts from July 2017,” MOE said on its website.