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Economy

Number Of Schools By Level, Type And Planning Region, Annual

Data from Jan 2023 to Dec 2025

Last updated: 14 Mar 2026, 21:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

Data Last Updated: 16/02/2026

Update Frequency: Annual

Footnotes: 1. Include Government, Government-aided, Independent and Specialised Independent and Specialised schools. 2. Mixed Level schools comprise primary & secondary schools (P1-S4/5) and secondary & junior college schools (S1-JC2). For type of school, Mixed Level schools are reflected according to their secondary sections. For example, if the secondary section is an Independent school and its primary section is Government-aided, the school will be reflected in the table above as an Independent Mixed Level school. 3. Data are based on the planning region of the school premises.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M850791

Data explorer

NumberOfSchoolsByLevelTypeAndPlanningRegionAnnual.csv (60 rows, 1.9 KB)

Data Series
Text
2025
Numeric
2024
Numeric
2023
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Primary Schools177177177
Government136136136
Central181818
East222222
North262626
North-East353535
West353535
Government-Aided414141
Central222222
East666

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Data SeriesDataSeriesTextNumber-
20252025NumericNumber-
20242024NumericNumber-
20232023NumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_bdf12c8b14453f3ce847fac94cce4a3c"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Number Of Schools By Level, Type And Planning Region, Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 3, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bdf12c8b14453f3ce847fac94cce4a3c/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)