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Enrolment - Primary Six

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Enrolment - Primary Six

Data from Jan 1980 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 19 Feb 2025, 14:51 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) The channelling of Primary 3 students into Primary 4 Normal, Extended and Monolingual streams was replaced in 1992 by channelling at Primary 4 into Primary 5 EM1, EM2 and EM3 streams.

(2) Total primary enrolment includes Primary 7 and Primary 8 students from the Extended and Monolingual streams.

(3) Since 2004, the distinction between the EM1 and EM2 streams have been removed and schools were given the autonomy to decide on how best to band their students by ability, in ways that added the most educational value. Since 2008, Subject-based Banding was introduced for the Primary 5 cohort and streaming was removed. With Subject-based Banding, students are able to offer a mix of Standard- or Foundation-level subjects depending on their aptitude in each subject.

Enrolment pri 6 by Year

Data explorer

EnrolmentPrimarySix.csv (184 rows, 3.6 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Stream
Text
Sex
Text
Enrolment Pri 6
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)19.6%
EM317.4%
EM112.0%
EM212.0%
Normal12.0%
(Null)0.0%
F50.0%
MF50.0%
(Null)0.0%
1980-MF49756
1980-F24015
1981-MF41558
1981-F20515
1982ExtendedMF8174
1982ExtendedF3134
1982MonolingualMF3982
1982MonolingualF1086
1982NormalMF43582
1982NormalF21457

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
StreamstreamText--
SexsexText--
Enrolment Pri 6enrolment_pri_6Text--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_cab629f994e10997a7a352aad4443146"
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). Enrolment - Primary Six (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 20, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_cab629f994e10997a7a352aad4443146/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@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)