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Education

Secondary Enrolment by Level and Course

Data from Jan 1980 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 02 Jan 2026, 15:55 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) As cohorts progress over the years, the numbers across courses may fluctuate as students have opportunities to transfer laterally across courses.

(2) Special and Express courses have been merged since the 2008 Secondary 1 cohort.

(3) N(T) figures include students in Specialised Schools. These students are taking the ITE Skills Certificate (ISC) course or are in a 2-year work-study programme after completing ISC.

(4) Starting from the 2024 Secondary 1 cohort, the N(T), N(A) and Express courses were removed with the introduction of Full Subject-Based Banding.

Enrolment secondary by Year

Data explorer

SecondaryEnrolmentbyLevelandCourse.csv (1.3K rows, 39.7 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Level
Text
Course
Text
Sex
Text
Enrolment Secondary
Text
(Null)0.0%
19972.7%
19982.7%
19992.7%
20002.7%
(Null)0.0%
Secondary 223.5%
Secondary 323.5%
Secondary 123.3%
Secondary 423.2%
(Null)0.5%
N(A)33.7%
Express28.7%
N(T)18.9%
Special18.3%
(Null)0.0%
F50.0%
MF50.0%
(Null)0.0%
1980Secondary 1ExpressMF45489
1980Secondary 1ExpressF22509
1980Secondary 1SpecialMF1511
1980Secondary 1SpecialF800
1980Secondary 2ExpressMF39068
1980Secondary 2ExpressF19765
1980Secondary 2SpecialMF1737
1980Secondary 2SpecialF978
1980Secondary 3ExpressMF34803
1980Secondary 3ExpressF17860
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c60f4952deb240f91b4c966544271197"
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). Secondary Enrolment by Level and Course (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 29, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c60f4952deb240f91b4c966544271197/view

About this dataset

Contact

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

Created on

07 Jan 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)