Singapore Primary School

The primary school years are an important phase of your child’s education.

How distance affects priority admission

Priority is given to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents who live closer to the preferred school when balloting. If your chosen primary school has more registrants than vacancies, priority admission will be given based on your child's citizenship and the Home-School Distance category, which is in turn based on the address used for registration.

Priority admission is given in this order:

  1. Singapore Citizens (SC) living within 1km of the school.

  2. SCs living between 1km and 2km of the school.

  3. SCs living outside 2km of the school.

  4. Permanent Residents (PR) living within 1km of the school.

  5. PRs living between 1km and 2km of the school.

  6. PRs living outside 2km of the school.

“"Every child is special and has their own unique potential to be nurtured."

— Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President of Singapore