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Statistics on private schools registered with MOE

Statistics on Private Schools (Number of Institutions)

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Statistics on Private Schools (Number of Institutions)

Data from Jan 2000 to Jan 2023Updated 5 months ago

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Privately-Funded Schools offer education at the secondary and/or junior college levels and are aimed primarily at Singapore residents who may prefer an alternative curriculum and qualification.

(2) The figures for Special Education Schools include only those that are government funded.

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StatisticsonPrivateSchoolsNumberofInstitutions.csv (72 rows, 2.9 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Type Of Institution
Text
Number Of Institution
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Privately Funded School33.3%
Special Education School33.3%
Full-Time Islamic Religious School (Madrasah)33.3%
(Null)0.0%
06.9%
323.6%
633.3%
2018.1%
2000Full-Time Islamic Religious School (Madrasah)6
2000Privately Funded School0
2000Special Education School18
2001Full-Time Islamic Religious School (Madrasah)6
2001Privately Funded School0
2001Special Education School19
2002Full-Time Islamic Religious School (Madrasah)6
2002Privately Funded School0
2002Special Education School20
2003Full-Time Islamic Religious School (Madrasah)6

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Type Of Institutiontype_of_institutionText--
Number Of Institutionnumber_of_institutionText--
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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_9a8697c5770bca5ffc1dffa320c2e24a"
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). Statistics on Private Schools (Number of Institutions) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 14, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9a8697c5770bca5ffc1dffa320c2e24a/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sgvivian_lin@moe.gov.sg

Created on

14 Jan 2019

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)