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Education

Summary Statistics on Education Officers

Data from Jan 2003 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 10 Nov 2025, 15:25 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) The figures excludes officers in HQ on various leave, on secondment to other institutions and those studying at NIE.

(2) Officers in Mixed Level schools are classified according to the level they teach or the level they are trained in.

(3) Include education officers on part-time employment scheme.

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

Data explorer

SummaryStatisticsonEducationOfficers.csv (716 rows, 39.7 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Level Text	Type Of School Text	Qualification Text	Sex Text	No Of Teacher Text	No Of Vice Principal Text	No Of Principal Text
(Null)0.0% 20085.6% 20095.6% 20105.6% 20115.6%	(Null)0.0% Secondary48.9% Junior College/Centralised Institute30.4% Primary20.7%	(Null)0.0% Government31.0% Govt-Aided31.0% Independent20.1% Specialised7.5%	(Null)19.6% Graduate40.2% Non-Graduate40.2%	(Null)0.0% F50.0% MF50.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% 029.3% 16.3% 55.2% 64.5%	(Null)0.0% 035.5% 27.1% 34.2% 48.9%
2003	Primary	Government	Graduate	MF	3231	74	64
2003	Primary	Government	Non-Graduate	MF	5526	30	82
2003	Primary	Government	Graduate	F	2628	59	51
2003	Primary	Government	Non-Graduate	F	4519	18	45
2003	Primary	Govt-Aided	Graduate	MF	1379	22	27
2003	Primary	Govt-Aided	Non-Graduate	MF	1889	14	18
2003	Primary	Govt-Aided	Graduate	F	1180	18	19
2003	Primary	Govt-Aided	Non-Graduate	F	1624	10	16
2003	Secondary	Autonomous	Graduate	MF	1472	25	23
2003	Secondary	Autonomous	Non-Graduate	MF	204	3	0

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Level	level	Text	-	-
Type Of School	type_of_school	Text	-	-
Qualification	qualification	Text	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
No Of Teacher	no_of_teacher	Text	-	-
No Of Vice Principal	no_of_vice_principal	Text	-	-
No Of Principal	no_of_principal	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_8aee2fbb0a3be5f3d49d723c80666766"
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). Summary Statistics on Education Officers (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 1, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_8aee2fbb0a3be5f3d49d723c80666766/view

About this dataset

Contact

leong_jun_jie@moe.gov.sg vivian_lin@moe.gov.sg

Created on

11 Jan 2019

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)