Singapore Primary Schools Ranked By Popularity
(Updated 18 Oct 2008) Smart KiasuParents do not target a school where we have little chance of getting into. The KiasuParents.com Popularity Ranking for Primary Schools is meant to let parents appreciate the odds of getting their children into their dream schools. "Popularity" is measured as the perceived difficulty of getting a place in the school based on the previous 2 years' Primary 1 registration status.
We have changed our methodology for measuring popularity into a 2 step process: We first count the number of times the school is involved in a ballot situation, with higher weightages given to distances below 1km and 2km. Next, we sort by the average number of applications versus the number of vacancies for a school in Phase 2C over the past 3 years. Naturally, schools which are several times oversubscribed over the past 3 years, (ie. >100% of available places) will float up to the top.
As our data is incomplete (we only have 2008 and most of 2007's data), we can only average over 2008 and 2007. In cases of missing data, we simply used the following year's numbers as the average value.
Note that this list would be updated after every Primary 1 Registration exercise.
| Legend | ||||
| Balloting required for <1km | Cut-off, no balloting for <1km | |||
| Balloting required for 1-2km | Cut-off, no balloting for 1-2km | |||
| Balloting required for >2km | Cut-off, no balloting for >2km | |||
| No Color = No balloting required for that Phase | ||||
| Cut-Off = There were an exact number of applicants within one of the 3 distance bands | ||||
| TUR = Cumulative Take-Up Rate at the end of the Phase | ||||
| APP = Number of Applicants versus available places for that Phase | ||||
| School | 2008 Phase 2C | 2007 Phase 2C | 2006 Phase 2C | Average APP | Ballot Count |
| APP | APP | APP | |||
| CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ | 174% | 173% | 173% | 18 | |
| Catholic High | 175% | 135% | 149% | 18 | |
| Ai Tong | 163% | 134% | 144% | 16.5 | |
| Anglo-Chinese School (Primary) | 132% | 123% | 126% | 14 | |
| St Hilda’s Primary | 387% | 219% | 275% | 13.5 | |
| De La Salle | 221% | 214% | 216% | 13.5 | |
| Nan Chiau Primary | 306% | 306% | 13 | ||
| Tao Nan | 136% | 165% | 155% | 13 | |
| Nanyang Primary | 113% | 124% | 120% | 12.5 | |
| Chongfu Primary | 175% | 141% | 152% | 12 | |
| Kong Hwa | 137% | 159% | 152% | 12 | |
| Rosyth | 247% | 331% | 303% | 11 | |
| Holy Innocents’ Primary | 154% | 146% | 149% | 11 | |
| Pei Chun Public | 125% | 155% | 145% | 11 | |
| CHIJ Primary (Toa Payoh) | 138% | 126% | 130% | 11 | |
| Methodist Girls’ School (Primary) | 116% | 121% | 119% | 11 | |
| Henry Park Primary | 126% | 141% | 136% | 10.5 | |
| Anglo-Chinese School (Junior) | 126% | 137% | 133% | 10.5 | |
| Nan Hua Primary | 314% | 160% | 211% | 10 | |
| Red Swastika | 144% | 227% | 199% | 10 | |
| St Anthony’s Primary | 193% | 165% | 174% | 10 | |
| Northland Primary | 233% | 126% | 162% | 10 | |
| Temasek Primary | 161% | 147% | 152% | 10 | |
| St Andrew’s Junior | 143% | 142% | 143% | 10 | |
| Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ | 118% | 140% | 132% | 10 | |
| Fairfield Methodist Primary | 119% | 103% | 108% | 10 | |
| Rivervale Primary | 349% | 349% | 9 | ||
| Rulang Primary | 190% | 345% | 293% | 9 | |
| West Grove Primary | 301% | 253% | 269% | 9 | |
| Jurong West Primary | 190% | 260% | 237% | 9 | |
| Mee Toh | 228% | 228% | 9 | ||
| South View Primary | 176% | 209% | 198% | 9 | |
| Woodlands Ring Primary | 133% | 180% | 164% | 9 | |
| Admiralty Primary | 147% | 164% | 158% | 9 | |
| Chongzheng Primary | 205% | 125% | 152% | 9 | |
| Princess Elizabeth Primary | 121% | 159% | 147% | 9 | |
| Evergreen Primary | 174% | 131% | 145% | 9 | |
| St Joseph’s Institution Junior | 166% | 133% | 144% | 9 | |
| Canberra Primary | 144% | 144% | 9 | ||
| East Spring Primary | 118% | 152% | 141% | 9 | |
| Gongshang Primary | 150% | 131% | 137% | 9 | |
| Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary | 121% | 130% | 127% | 9 | |
| Woodgrove Primary | 126% | 109% | 115% | 9 | |
| Hougang Primary | 124% | 101% | 109% | 9 | |
| Poi Ching | 103% | 104% | 104% | 8.5 | |
| Pasir Ris Primary | 121% | 163% | 149% | 8 | |
| White Sands Primary | 116% | 126% | 123% | 8 | |
| Maha Bodhi | 124% | 120% | 121% | 8 | |
| Xinmin Primary | 124% | 109% | 114% | 8 | |
| Keming Primary | 129% | 107% | 114% | 8 | |
| Yu Neng Primary | 111% | 108% | 109% | 8 | |
| Compassvale Primary | 166% | 166% | 7 | ||
| Jiemin Primary | 137% | 142% | 140% | 7 | |
| Anderson Primary | 122% | 145% | 138% | 7 | |
| Bukit Panjang Primary | 145% | 109% | 121% | 7 | |
| Unity Primary | 101% | 102% | 102% | 7 | |
| Hong Wen | 164% | 164% | 6 | ||
| Radin Mas Primary | 139% | 139% | 6 | ||
| St Stephen’s | 128% | 139% | 135% | 6 | |
| Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Primary | 131% | 120% | 123% | 6 | |
| CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity | 127% | 115% | 119% | 6 | |
| CHIJ Our Lady of Good Counsel | 110% | 117% | 115% | 6 | |
| CHIJ (Kellock) | 113% | 113% | 6 | ||
| Singapore Chinese Girls’ Primary | 110% | 110% | 6 | ||
| Shuqun Primary | 102% | 113% | 110% | 6 | |
| Clementi Primary | 110% | 107% | 108% | 5 | |
| Yew Tee Primary | 101% | 86% | 91% | 5 | |
| Raffles Girls’ Primary | 186% | 192% | 190% | 4.5 | |
| CHIJ Our Lady Queen of Peace | 115% | 131% |