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Number of Secondary Schools by Level and Type

Data from Jan 1999 to Jan 2023Updated about 1 month ago

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) 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.

(2) The first junior college (National Junior College) was opened in 1969.

(3) Introduced in 1987, centralised institutes provide a 3-year pre-university course leading to A-Level certification.

(4) Figures exclude the number of Pre-U centres. Introduced in 1979, Pre-U centres are schools that offer a 3-year pre-university course leading to A-Level certification. They were phased out in 1995 due to falling demand.

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NumberofSecondarySchoolsbyLevelandType.csv (125 rows, 2.9 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
School Type
Text
Number Of Sec Sch
Text
(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%
1999Government112
1999Government-Aided28
1999Independent6
1999Specialised0
1999Specialised Independent0
2000Government123
2000Government-Aided28
2000Independent6
2000Specialised0
2000Specialised Independent0

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
School Typeschool_typeText--
Number Of Sec Schnumber_of_sec_schText--
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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())

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Ministry of Education. (2019). Number of Secondary Schools by Level and Type (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_041568b8e59c3cba17a178a68d4dcb7c/view

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MOE (Ministry of Education)

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