Hong Kong International School and US church founder reach settlement in lawsuit

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The Hong Kong International School (HKIS) and its founder, the US-based Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), reached an out-of-court settlement to resolve a lawsuit filed by the church in September 2023. The LCMS had sued the school's operator, HKISAL, alleging financial mismanagement, a lack of transparency, and a departure from its original mission by serving only an elite demographic. As part of the resolution, the LCMS relinquished its governance role over the school, and the parties initiated the transfer of the Repulse Bay campus lease from the church to HKISAL.

Consequences

The school will remain in operation with its American-style, Christian-based curriculum and expects no changes to current tuition fees. The settlement also ended the LCMS's plan to establish a competing institution, the Hong Kong Pacific School.

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