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Pupils Per Teacher in Secondary Schools

Data from Jan 1981 to Jan 2023Updated 2 months ago

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Figures for secondary schools include students and teachers in Government, Government-aided, Independent, Specialised Independent and Specialised schools.

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

Sec students to teachers by Year

Data explorer

PupilsPerTeacherinSecondarySchools.csv (43 rows, 502 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sec Students To Teachers Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1981	20.6
1982	20.6
1983	20.7
1984	22.6
1985	21.8
1986	23.1
1987	21.6
1988	22.1
1989	21.6
1990	21.2

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sec Students To Teachers	sec_students_to_teachers	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_90c36efa54bc29bc7c2e946003889f53"
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 Secondary Schools (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved February 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_90c36efa54bc29bc7c2e946003889f53/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg vivian_lin@moe.gov.sg

Created on

05 Jan 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)