Find the right school using our new School Picker tool
Visualisation: Thong Yong Jun & Loh Li Wei
There are 182 primary schools and 154 secondary schools across Singapore, each with its own unique offering of academic and non-academic programmes. At secondary school level, students can now choose from co-curricular activities (CCAs) in over 120 areas of interest, ranging from floorball to robotics.
It can be challenging to sieve out the schools that offer the right mix of CCAs and special programmes for you, with schools rolling out more programmes over the years.
Using data on government schools, Data.gov.sg has created SchoolPicker.sg to help you come up with your own shortlist.
How to use the tool
We wanted to make the tool as easy to use as possible, so it starts off with a simple questionnaire about your key requirements: 1) school level, 2) your address, and 3) CCAs and other programmes. You may further refine your search after this.
Once you click “done”, you will be show a shortlist based on your answers. Schools within 1km and 2km radii are highlighted in blue. The distance colour coding may be especially useful for primary school admissions.
You may click on any school in the list on the left side, or on the map, to see more details such as how to get there by bus, and the full list of CCAs and programmes available at that school. If you keyed in your postal code, we will also show estimated travelling time by car.
To shortlist any school, just click on “Bookmark” in the left panel.
Once you have shortlisted enough schools, you can click on the “Bookmark” button at the top right of the screen to see the list to compare the schools further.
Click here to launch School Picker!
Do let us know what you think of the app, and how we can make it more useful to you! Drop us a message on social media, or email us at feedback@data.gov.sg.
