Source and date policy
Source verification and editorial methodology
A date must be verified for cycle and meaning before it can change a school status or deadline reminder.
Source hierarchy
- The official school admission page or a notice on the official website.
- An application system, Google Site, PDF or form directly linked by the official school website.
- An official school social account only when the website links it or the same information can be corroborated.
MySchool and AfterSchool define the original 68-school monitoring roster only. Their dates are not admission evidence.
Date classification
Dates are classified as application opening, application deadline, information session, open day, interview, arrangement lookup, result, registration, document task, system maintenance or announcement. Only a general application deadline explicitly stated on an applicable official 2027/28 source enters the confirmed-deadline list.
Approximate wording such as early August, mid-September or late October stays approximate and is never converted into an invented exact date.
Status decisions
Open requires the opening time to have arrived and the deadline not to have passed. Announced means the official window is known but starts in the future. Partial info means some current-cycle facts exist but no confirmed deadline is available. Not published means no verifiable current-cycle timetable has been found. Closed means the deadline passed or the official source says applications closed. School closed describes operating identity and is separate from an ordinary application closing.
Hong Kong time and freshness
Current-date comparisons use Asia/Hong_Kong. Each daily build recalculates announced, open and closed states, but an exact same-day closing time remains controlled by the school's wording rather than the page generation date alone.
Conflicts and corrections
When a current official page conflicts with an older PDF, both cycle and meaning are reviewed before the applicable official version is adopted and the reason recorded. Material changes to dates, sources, processes or school identity enter the versioned update record.
Review material updates and sources → Read the correction policy →
Ranking boundary
Admission dates come only from official school sources. The Top 100 research index uses structural fields in the official 2025 Primary School Profiles and disclosed weights. It is not an Education Bureau ranking, academic result, banding, admission probability or child-fit score.