Van Trach, special commissioner of Nam Ky Governor bought books for the Petrus Ky Library. In the school year 1928-1929 was the subject of social concern through an article published in the newspaper La Tribune Indochinoise on January 4, 1929 with content Lycée Petrus Ky for native students treated as relatives. After the paper, in the second academic year, Mr. Banchelin was renamed and Mr. Paul Valencot, a professorial master of master's degree, was appointed principal in August 1929 and the Governor of Nam appointed Mr. Renault, chairman of the Cholon Marketing Board, replacing Mr. Gazano as the chairman of the board. In 1941, the school was temporarily relocated to the Pedagogical College of Saigon due to the war. It resumed its regular teaching activities in the same year, at its own establishment. In 1945, the school was temporarily closed after evacuating to Tan Dinh school district. It re-opened in April 1946 in a seminary on Lucien Mossard street. It returned to Chợ Quán in the year 1947. In 1961, it became a secondary school in the Southern Vietnamese educational system. In 1976, the school was renamed after a former general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Lê Hồng Phong, and became a high school. In 1990, it was made a high school for the gifted students. Its current name is Lê Hồng Phong High School for the Gifted. Institution A faculty of about 160 teachers, chosen from the top candidates at the Ho Chi Minh City Pedagogical University, serves about 2400 students in three grades from 10th to 12th. Lê Hồng Phong conducts a rigorous entrance examination for admission. Its long-standing prestige as the foremost high school in the area attracts many applicants from South Vietnam and the competition is fierce. Students sit for exams in mathematics, literature, foreign language (mostly English), and must write a paper on one of the eleven subjects offered in the classes for majors. Students applying for 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: Mathematics, Physics, Computer science, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, History, Literature, English, French, Chinese and Japanese. Students in these classes do not have to pay tuition fees. Students in those courses are