A street name is not a school-net number
Parents often mistake the street name for the school net. La Salle Road in Kowloon Tong sounds as if it belongs to the 41 net, but Sylvan Court at No. 6 La Salle Road in fact falls under the 34 net, so children there cannot apply to La Salle Primary School by address. This case is explicitly flagged in Centaline's school-net guide.
The reason is simple: school-net boundaries do not follow district boundaries, and they do not follow street names either. The 41 and 34 nets are broadly divided by Boundary Street, but the actual line curves around individual sites; in Central and Western, estates east of Man Mo Lane such as Star Crest and The Avenue are not in the 11 net; the 12 net has a U-shaped eastern boundary, with areas south of Lau Sin Street in 12 and north of it in 14.
So 'this street is in Kowloon Tong' is not the same as 'this flat is in the 41 net'. Agents should run address → net number → covered schools before the viewing, rather than explain on the spot.
Check one: look up the net number
The Education Bureau's Primary One Admission scheme divides Hong Kong into 36 primary school nets. Our school-net pages are built on the POA_SchoolNet dataset from data.gov.hk and list the areas and estates covered by each net. Before a viewing, enter the address into the lookup flow to get the net number.
Note that the same postal street can fall into different nets depending on the house number. Do not just ask 'which net is this street in?'; ask 'which net is this specific address in?'
Check two: verify the coverage area
Once you have the net number, compare the coverage area listed for that net. Our school-net pages show the streets and estates covered; compare them line by line with the client's address.
Pay special attention to hotspots: the Kai Tak area is surrounded by several nets. North of Prince Edward Road East is 43, the north-east such as Laguna Verde is 45, and east of Shing Kai Road such as Richland Gardens is 46. The district name 'Kowloon City' alone will not tell you.
Check three: cross-check the estate on the school-net page
We have mapped estates to net numbers. When a client fixes on an estate, check its net on the school-net page or estate page first, then look back at other popular estates in the same net as alternatives.
The point is not to find the cheapest estate, but to confirm that the net the client thinks applies is actually the net the estate belongs to. Many misunderstandings happen when clients search on their own and confuse 'near' with 'in'.
Final check before the viewing
Compress the three checks into one sentence: look up the net number for the address, verify that the net's coverage area includes this house number, then cross-check the estate page. Only when all three pass should you state a net conclusion to the client.
School-net data comes from government open data plus our curated estate-to-net mapping. If any estate's net assignment differs from official sources, the Education Bureau's latest announcement should prevail. This piece provides a verification workflow only and does not guarantee placement outcomes for any estate.