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Teachers in Schools

Teachers In Schools - Secondary Schools

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Teachers In Schools - Secondary Schools

Data from Jan 1981 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 16 Jan 2025, 10:28 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Teacher data is correct as at 31 December in each year (Prior to 1996, data is correct as at June in each year).

Teachers

Data explorer

TeachersInSchoolsSecondarySchools.csv (504 rows, 13.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	School Type Text	Teacher 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	5480
1981	F	Government	2841
1981	MF	Government-Aided	2148
1981	F	Government-Aided	1392
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	-	-
Teacher Sec	teacher_sec	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_8b21b31d3f0a4ed58cb805336d52d932"
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). Teachers In Schools - Secondary Schools (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 25, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_8b21b31d3f0a4ed58cb805336d52d932/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)