St. Teresa Secondary School () is a Roman Catholic girls secondary school in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is directly governed by the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong. The school's patroness is St. Teresa of Lisieux, since the school is located at the same district, Kowloon City District, as St. Teresa's Church in Hong Kong.
History
The school's indirect predecessor is Precious Blood Golden Jubilee Secondary School, which was administered by the Sisters of the Precious Blood. In 1977, due to misusage of school funds and suspected corruption, some teachers contacted the ICAC and informed the students. It was followed by the diocese's take-over and suppression, a series of student protests and sit-ins, and eventually the closure of the school on 14 May 1978. St. Teresa Secondary School was opened on its former site, with the protestors initiating the secular Ng Yuk Secondary School.
During the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong in 2003, because students suspected of infection, the school arranged education psychologists in schools to provide psychological counselling for affected teachers and students.
In 2011, Ms. Teresa Tam took over as principal.
On 7 December 2016, at 7 o'clock in the morning, a staff member returned to the school's snack shop to start work. They found that the snack shop was messy and suspected of being burgled. Police officers arrived at the scene to investigate, and after counting the losses, about $2,000 was lost. Initially, it is not ruled out that the culprit took advantage of the middle of the night to climb a window on the side of the mountain and sneak into the campus to commit the crime. The case was classified as burglary for follow-up.
In 2017, for the 40th anniversary of the school, the school held the main protection ceremony thanksgiving festival, and set up the career planning room at the school.
On 9 September 2019, the human chain activity in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests was launched. Students and alumni of various secondary schools in Hong Kong initiated the chain action to express their determination to fight for the five demands. The students of this school participated. The activity starts at about 7 o'clock in the morning and ends at about 8 o'clock. Among the 18 districts in Hong Kong, apart from the island district, the remaining 17 districts have middle school students and alumni involved in this operation.
Since 2020, the students in the school spent almost half of their high school career due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong. Those students lamented that during the suspension of classes, the opportunity to meet with classmates and teachers was greatly reduced. In some days they could only attend physical classes for half a day, and the time they spent with their classmates was also reduced. They said that their parents were doing business in the Mainland China, and they were preparing for the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) examination in the school year. The epidemic has separated them from two places. They can only gossip through the screen every weekend. They didn't have close relatives or teachers to accompany and supervise them. During the Chinese New Year, the epidemic still isolates them from their relatives. As a result, those students felt very lonely. Those girls faced the DSE alone.
On 25 June 2021, one of the distinguished contemporary Chinese scientists gave a public lecture at school. It was lectured by Zhang Xi, a scientist of the Chang'e 4 probe project, entitled "Building Dreams on the Moon and Comfortable Sleeves". Zhang Xi was communicating with students at the school. In an interview with Hong Kong Commercial Daily, she said that there is no gender distinction in the work of aerospace, and women can also do well, but they may have relatively little time to take care of their families. She hoped that the students can also work hard in this direction.
On 26 April 2022 at about 8 pm, a female student was found on the school's rooftop, in the dark. She was suspected of trying to jump off the building. Police arrived after receiving the report and confirmed that the student belonged to the school. They persuaded the other party, and took the student to a safe place; she was sent to the hospital. At the time, the school was being used as a venue for the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education examination and there were no classes. The police are investigating the cause of the nighttime incident.