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Collection: Students in Schools

Dataset: Students In Schools - Secondary Schools

Education

Students In Schools - Secondary Schools

Data from Jan 1981 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 02 Jan 2026, 15:59 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Since 2008, Autonomous schools have been grouped under Government and Government-Aided schools.

Students

Data explorer

StudentsInSchoolsSecondarySchools.csv (524 rows, 14.2 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
School Type
Text
Student Sec
Text
(Null)0.0%
19812.3%
19822.3%
19832.3%
19842.3%
(Null)0.0%
F50.0%
MF50.0%
(Null)0.0%
Government17.2%
Independent17.2%
Specialised17.2%
Government-Aided17.2%
(Null)0.0%
1981MFGovernment117223
1981FGovernment58475
1981MFGovernment-Aided40084
1981FGovernment-Aided20623
1981MFAutonomous0
1981FAutonomous0
1981MFIndependent0
1981FIndependent0
1981MFSpecialised Independent0
1981FSpecialised Independent0
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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_485ba9d40c6270a9ac1baf20e80d3e98"
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. (2024). Students In Schools - Secondary Schools (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 4, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_485ba9d40c6270a9ac1baf20e80d3e98/view

About this dataset

Contact

leong_jun_jie@moe.gov.sgvivian_lin@moe.gov.sg

Created on

15 Mar 2024

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)