About 80 per cent of children set to enter Hong Kong’s public primary schools in September have been assigned one of their top three choices under the city’s central allocation system, down from around 84 per cent last year. The figure released by the Education Bureau on Friday was the third-highest over the past 17 years. This year also saw the second-lowest number of pupils since 1997 join the central allocation system. In Hong Kong, Primary One places at public schools are allocated using a...