Institution
A faculty of about 160 teachers serves about 2400 students in three grades from 10th to 12th. Lê Hồng Phong conducts entrance examinations for admission. Its long-standing prestige as the foremost high school in the area attracts many applicants and the competition is fierce. Students sit for exams in mathematics, literature, English, and must write a paper on one of the eleven subjects offered in the classes for majors. Students applying to the bilingual Vietnamese-French programme are admitted on a different panel.
In the 2006-07 academic year, the school admitted 250 students into 12 classes for majors and 400 students into 8 classes for non-majors.
The school offers 12 classes for majors, each specialising in a single subject including: Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry, Biology, Geology, History, Literature, English, French, Russian and Chinese. Students in these classes do not have to pay tuition fees.
Upon applying to Lê Hồng Phong, applicants must specify the section in which to study. A section is a study programme in which the student chooses to specialise in three out of the eleven mandatory subjects. The entrance examination papers for each section differ in level of difficulty of each subject.
- Section A: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.
- Section B: Mathematics, Chemistry and Biology.
- Section C: Literature, History and Geography.
- Section D: Mathematics, Literature and foreign languages.
Students in the classes for non-majors pay nominal tuitions. The bilingual French-Vietnamese programme is taught in both languages. At the end of 12th grade, students attend two examinations: the Vietnamese National Baccalaureate and the Bilingual Baccalaureate recognized by the Francophone community. The prominent student organisation at Lê Hồng Phong is the Youth Division of the Communist Party of Vietnam. The organisation organises annual recreational and charity events, many of which have become school traditions.
Almost 100% of the school's students pass the National Baccalaureate examination and more than 90% gain entrance to universities and colleges. The school is a strong contestant in the national and international student academic competitions. In the school year 2006-2007, 291 students from Lê Hồng Phong won the City Student Academic Aptitude competition in 12 subjects and 23 students won the National competitions. It is one of the two best-known high schools in Hồ Chí Minh City, together with High school for the Gifted (Nang Khieu High School).
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