Secondary School Enrollment SingaporeSecondary School Enrollment Singapore
Official secondary school data from SingStat. 183,965 students enrolled in 2025 (up 1,753 on 2024, the first rise in years). Real data from Table M850241.
183,965 students were enrolled in Singapore's secondary schools and junior colleges in 2025 — up 1,753 (+1.0%) on 2024, the first increase after nearly a decade of decline. Enrolment had fallen 14.6% from its 2015 level of 215,414 as smaller birth cohorts worked through the system, but the larger primary cohorts of the late 2010s are now beginning to reach secondary age. Figures are official, from SingStat Table M850241 (Ministry of Education), covering 2015–2025.
Secondary
Total Enrolled 2025
Last stream data
Sec 1 (2024)
N(A) Stream
Sec 5 Students
Decline
10-Year Change
decline since 2015
What changed: 2024 → 2025
After nearly a decade of decline, total secondary enrolment ticked up in 2025.
Secondary School Enrollment (2015-2025)
Total students by year
Enrollment by Level (2024 — last stream-level data)
Sec 1–5; SingStat stopped publishing this breakdown after Full SBB
Data Sources
Secondary School Data
- • Source: Singapore Department of Statistics (SingStat)
- • Table ID: M850241 ↗
- • Provider: Ministry of Education (MOE)
- • Coverage: All secondary schools including integrated programs
Key Statistics
- • Total 2025: 183,965 students (+1,753 vs 2024)
- • Sec 1 (2024): 38,214
- • Sec 4 (2024): 39,611
- • Sec 5 (2024): 1,981 (former N(A))
Analysis: what the 2025 numbers mean
A decade of decline…
From a 2015 peak of 215,414, secondary enrolment fell almost every year to 182,212 by 2024 — a 14.6% drop over the decade — as Singapore's low birth rates in the 2000s worked their way up through the school system.
…and a 2025 rebound
2025 breaks that pattern: enrolment rose to 183,965 (+1,753, +1.0%), the first increase in years. The driver is demographic — the larger primary-school cohorts of the late 2010s are now reaching secondary age, temporarily offsetting the longer-term decline before it likely resumes as today's smaller primary cohorts move up.
2025 is the first rise in secondary enrolment in years — the larger primary cohorts of the late 2010s are now reaching secondary age.
SingStat M850241
Full SBB and the vanishing streams
From 2024, Full Subject-Based Banding (Full SBB) replaced the Express / Normal (Academic) / Normal (Technical) streams with G1/G2/G3 subject levels. A visible effect in the data: SingStat no longer publishes secondary enrolment by stream and level, and Secondary 5 — the extra O-Level year for former N(A) students — has shrunk from 5,767 in 2015 to 1,981 in 2024 as more students sit O-Levels directly at Secondary 4. The level chart below therefore shows 2024, the last year a stream-level breakdown was reported.
What this means for parents
A stable-to-rising total does not change the fundamentals: places at popular secondary schools are still decided by PSLE scores and the Direct School Admission (DSA) route, and under Full SBB your child's subject combination matters more than any single stream label. To gauge where a PSLE score can reach, use our PSLE score calculator and browse DSA secondary programmes.
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