Percentages of Students Living in HDB Flats under Public Rental Scheme

Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang asked the Minister for Education for each year in the past five years, what are the percentages of students who live in HDB flats under the Public Rental Scheme who enter the (i) Normal (Technical), (ii) Normal (Academic) and (iii) Express streams respectively.

Socio-economic status has become significantly correlated with the Primary School Leaving Examination results. This is inevitable as lives improved and lower-income families make progress over the years, with children doing better than their parents. So, the percentage of students in Normal streams living in public rental Housing and Development Board flats are higher than that in Express stream.

This is why the Ministry of Education is undertaking various measures, including the Uplifting Pupils in Life and Inspiring Families Taskforce (UPLIFT), to help lift the performance of students at the bottom.