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Collection: Number of Schools by Level and Type

Dataset: Number of Primary Schools by Level and Type

Education

Number of Primary Schools by Level and Type

Data from Jan 1999 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 02 Jan 2026, 16:02 SGT

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.

Data explorer

NumberofPrimarySchoolsbyLevelandType.csv (54 rows, 1.3 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	School Type Text	Number Of Pri Sch Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% Government50.0% Government-Aided50.0%	(Null)0.0%
1999	Government	153
1999	Government-Aided	40
2000	Government	155
2000	Government-Aided	40
2001	Government	151
2001	Government-Aided	41
2002	Government	137
2002	Government-Aided	41
2003	Government	132
2003	Government-Aided	41

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
School Type	school_type	Text	-	-
Number Of Pri Sch	number_of_pri_sch	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_217c93afee788f476404c42fe4de0249"
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 Primary Schools by Level and Type (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 29, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_217c93afee788f476404c42fe4de0249/view

About this dataset

Contact

leong_jun_jie@moe.gov.sg vivian_lin@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)