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Teachers in Schools

Teachers In Schools - Primary Schools

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Teachers In Schools - Primary Schools

Data from Jan 1980 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 16 Jan 2025, 10:26 SGT

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).

Teachers

Data explorer

TeachersInSchoolsPrimarySchools.csv (176 rows, 4.8 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%
1980	MF	Government	7244
1980	F	Government	4834
1980	MF	Government-Aided	2837
1980	F	Government-Aided	1908
1981	MF	Government	7260
1981	F	Government	4852
1981	MF	Government-Aided	2194
1981	F	Government-Aided	1430
1982	MF	Government	7437
1982	F	Government	4967

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
School Type	school_type	Text	-	-
Teachers Pri	teachers_pri	Text	-	-

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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_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 July 17, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_b09a1596075c5d694af7c23bbef87f53/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg vivian_lin@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)