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Education

Number of Secondary Schools by Level and Type

Data from Jan 1999 to Jan 2023Updated 6 months ago

MOE (Ministry of Education)

Mixed Level schools comprise Primary & Secondary schools (P1-S4/5) and Secondary & Junior College schools (S1-JC2 or S3-JC2). Mixed Level schools are classified by type according to their secondary sections.

Data explorer

NumberofSecondarySchoolsbyLevelandType.csv (125 rows, 2.8 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	School type Text	Number of sec sch Numeric
(Null)0.0% 19994.0% 20004.0% 20014.0% 20024.0%	(Null)0.0% Government20.0% Independent20.0% Specialised20.0% Government-Aided20.0%	(Null)0.0% 114.4% 215.2% 411.2% 2820.0%
1999	Government	112
1999	Government-Aided	28
1999	Independent	6
1999	Specialised	0
1999	Specialised Independent	0
2000	Government	123
2000	Government-Aided	28
2000	Independent	6
2000	Specialised	0
2000	Specialised Independent	0

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
School type	school_type	Text	-	-
Number of sec sch	number_of_sec_sch	Numeric	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_041568b8e59c3cba17a178a68d4dcb7c"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Education. (2019). Number of Secondary Schools by Level and Type (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 23, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_041568b8e59c3cba17a178a68d4dcb7c/view

About this dataset

Contact

vivian_lin@moe.gov.sg song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg

Created on

14 Jan 2019

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)

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