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Collection: Statistics on Private Schools

Dataset: Private Schools: Number of Institutions

Education

Private Schools: Number of Institutions

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.

Data from 2000 to 2024

Last updated 10 months ago (12 Nov 2025)

Data explorer

PrivateSchoolsNumberofInstitutions.csv (75 rows, 3 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%
06.7%
324.0%
633.3%
2017.3%
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
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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). Private Schools: Number of Institutions (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9a8697c5770bca5ffc1dffa320c2e24a/view

About this dataset

Contact

vivian_lin@moe.gov.sgleong_jun_jie@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)