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Collection: Teachers in Schools

Dataset: Teachers In Schools - Primary Schools

Education

Teachers In Schools - Primary Schools

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).

Data from 1980 to 2024

Last updated 10 months ago (10 Nov 2025)

Teachers

Data explorer

TeachersInSchoolsPrimarySchools.csv (180 rows, 4.9 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
School Type
Text
Teachers Pri
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
F50.0%
MF50.0%
(Null)0.0%
Government50.0%
Government-Aided50.0%
(Null)0.0%
1980MFGovernment7244
1980FGovernment4834
1980MFGovernment-Aided2837
1980FGovernment-Aided1908
1981MFGovernment7260
1981FGovernment4852
1981MFGovernment-Aided2194
1981FGovernment-Aided1430
1982MFGovernment7437
1982FGovernment4967
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_b09a1596075c5d694af7c23bbef87f53"
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 - Primary Schools (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_b09a1596075c5d694af7c23bbef87f53/view

About this dataset

Contact

vivian_lin@moe.gov.sgleong_jun_jie@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)