Successful Applicants of Phase 2B with No Prior School Affiliation and Proportion of Children of Alumni

58 Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Education over the five years from 2020 to 2024, for schools that conducted Phase 2B balloting, (a) how many successful applicants in those schools had no prior school affiliation; (b) what proportion of applicants in those schools entered as children of alumni under Phase 2A; and (c) whether the Ministry will consider reserving at least 40 places for unaffiliated families under Phase 2B.

Mr Desmond Lee: The Primary One Registration Framework balances a number of factors, including the convenience of having the younger sibling attend the same school as the older sibling, ties that the parents have to the school, proximity to home and providing access to those without ties to the school.

From 2020 to 2024, in schools that balloted at Phase 2B, on average about one-third of their primary one cohort were admitted via Phase 1, one-third via Phase 2A and the remaining one-third via Phases 2B and 2C.

As I had shared recently in an interview, Ministry of Education is reviewing the Primary 1 Registration Framework to enhance access to primary schools for students of different backgrounds.