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Enrolment - Primary Five

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Enrolment - Primary Five

Data from Jan 1980 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 19 Feb 2025, 14:50 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) The channelling of Primary 3 students into Primary 4 Normal, Extended and Monolingual streams was replaced in 1992 by channelling at Primary 4 into Primary 5 EM1, EM2 and EM3 streams.

(2) Total primary enrolment includes Primary 7 and Primary 8 students from the Extended and Monolingual streams.

(3) Since 2004, the distinction between the EM1 and EM2 streams have been removed and schools were given the autonomy to decide on how best to band their students by ability, in ways that added the most educational value. Since 2008, Subject-based Banding was introduced for the Primary 5 cohort and streaming was removed. With Subject-based Banding, students are able to offer a mix of Standard- or Foundation-level subjects depending on their aptitude in each subject.

Enrolment pri 5 by Year

Data explorer

EnrolmentPrimaryFive.csv (190 rows, 3.7 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Stream
Text
Sex
Text
Enrolment Pri 5
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)18.9%
EM316.8%
EM112.6%
EM212.6%
Normal11.6%
(Null)0.0%
F50.0%
MF50.0%
(Null)0.0%
1980-MF45374
1980-F22011
1981ExtendedMF11148
1981ExtendedF4077
1981MonolingualMF2104
1981MonolingualF616
1981NormalMF44548
1981NormalF21758
1982ExtendedMF7892
1982ExtendedF3020

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
StreamstreamText--
SexsexText--
Enrolment Pri 5enrolment_pri_5Text--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_30b3c448f1ba4927d56f458d62a43436"
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. (2016). Enrolment - Primary Five (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 14, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_30b3c448f1ba4927d56f458d62a43436/view

About this dataset

Contact

vivian_lin@moe.gov.sgsong_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg

Created on

07 Jan 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)