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Students in Schools

Students In Schools - Secondary Schools

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Students In Schools - Secondary Schools

Data from Jan 1981 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 04 Dec 2024, 15:31 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

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

Students

Data explorer

StudentsInSchoolsSecondarySchools.csv (504 rows, 13.6 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	School Type Text	Student Sec Text
(Null)0.0% 19812.4% 19822.4% 19832.4% 19842.4%	(Null)0.0% F50.0% MF50.0%	(Null)0.0% Government17.1% Independent17.1% Specialised17.1% Government-Aided17.1%	(Null)0.0%
1981	MF	Government	117223
1981	F	Government	58475
1981	MF	Government-Aided	40084
1981	F	Government-Aided	20623
1981	MF	Autonomous	0
1981	F	Autonomous	0
1981	MF	Independent	0
1981	F	Independent	0
1981	MF	Specialised Independent	0
1981	F	Specialised Independent	0

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
School Type	school_type	Text	-	-
Student Sec	student_sec	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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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 (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 9, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_485ba9d40c6270a9ac1baf20e80d3e98/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg vivian_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)