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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 2023

Last updated: 12 Dec 2024, 11:27 SGT

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 explorer

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%
2000	Full-Time Islamic Religious School (Madrasah)	6
2000	Privately Funded School	0
2000	Special Education School	18
2001	Full-Time Islamic Religious School (Madrasah)	6
2001	Privately Funded School	0
2001	Special Education School	19
2002	Full-Time Islamic Religious School (Madrasah)	6
2002	Privately Funded School	0
2002	Special Education School	20
2003	Full-Time Islamic Religious School (Madrasah)	6

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Type Of Institution	type_of_institution	Text	-	-
Number Of Institution	number_of_institution	Text	-	-

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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). Statistics on Private Schools (Number of Institutions) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 29, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9a8697c5770bca5ffc1dffa320c2e24a/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg vivian_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)