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Collection: Students in Schools

Dataset: Students In Schools - Primary Schools

Education

Students In Schools - Primary Schools

Data from Jan 1980 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 05 Jan 2026, 09:56 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

Students

Data explorer

StudentsInSchoolsPrimarySchools.csv (184 rows, 5.2 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
School Type
Text
Students Pri
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
F50.0%
MF50.0%
(Null)0.0%
Government50.0%
Government-Aided50.0%
(Null)0.0%
1980MFGovernment214187
1980FGovernment101232
1980MFGovernment-Aided77323
1980FGovernment-Aided37971
1981MFGovernment210245
1981FGovernment99357
1981MFGovernment-Aided74756
1981FGovernment-Aided36577
1982MFGovernment217885
1982FGovernment102355
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_82ad188aa90781534e972334c201fd7d"
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 - Primary Schools (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 22, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_82ad188aa90781534e972334c201fd7d/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)