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Collection: Pupils Per Teacher in Primary And Secondary Schools

Dataset: Pupils Per Teacher in Primary Schools

Education

Pupils Per Teacher in Primary Schools

Data from Jan 1981 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 17 Nov 2025, 16:02 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) The ratio of students to teaching staff or what is known as the Pupil-Teacher Ratio (PTR), is the number of primary students divided by the number of teachers in primary schools.

Pri students to teachers by Year

Data explorer

PupilsPerTeacherinPrimarySchools.csv (44 rows, 515 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Pri Students To Teachers
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
198130.1
198230.3
198329.3
198427.7
198526.8
198626.2
198725.7
198826.0
198925.8
199025.8
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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_bc5a1a10afedf7d25128dae1342c9556"
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. (2016). Pupils Per Teacher in Primary Schools (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 7, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bc5a1a10afedf7d25128dae1342c9556/view

About this dataset

Contact

leong_jun_jie@moe.gov.sgvivian_lin@moe.gov.sg

Created on

04 Jan 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)