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Statistics on Private Schools (Student Enrolment and Number of Teaching Staff)

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Statistics on Private Schools (Student Enrolment and Number of Teaching Staff)

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

StatisticsonPrivateSchoolsStudentEnrolmentandNumberofTeachingStaff.csv (252 rows, 14.5 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Institution
Text
Mode
Text
Sex
Text
Enrolment
Text
Teaching Staff
Text
(Null)0.0%
20004.8%
20014.8%
20024.8%
20034.8%
(Null)0.0%
Privately Funded School33.3%
Special Education School33.3%
Full-Time Islamic Religious School (Madrasah)33.3%
(Null)0.0%
Full-Time42.9%
Part-Time42.9%
Full-Time & Part-Time14.3%
(Null)0.0%
F50.0%
MF50.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2000Full-Time Islamic Religious School (Madrasah)Full-TimeMF4295199
2000Full-Time Islamic Religious School (Madrasah)Full-TimeF2954152
2000Full-Time Islamic Religious School (Madrasah)Part-TimeMF00
2000Full-Time Islamic Religious School (Madrasah)Part-TimeF00
2000Privately Funded SchoolFull-TimeMF00
2000Privately Funded SchoolFull-TimeF00
2000Privately Funded SchoolPart-TimeMF00
2000Privately Funded SchoolPart-TimeF00
2000Special Education SchoolFull-TimeMF3522482
2000Special Education SchoolFull-TimeF1393408

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
InstitutioninstitutionText--
ModemodeText--
SexsexText--
EnrolmentenrolmentText--
Teaching Staffteaching_staffText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_af80eed3517888b8e4140400d4bb01d1"
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 (Student Enrolment and Number of Teaching Staff) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 25, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_af80eed3517888b8e4140400d4bb01d1/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)