Students Accepted into Secondary Schools via Direct School Admission Scheme

Mr Ang Wei Neng asked the Minister for Education over the past five years (a) how many students, by gender, are accepted by Secondary schools under the Direct School Admission (DSA) scheme before taking their PSLE; and (b) of these students, how many subsequently do not join the Secondary schools that offered them a place under DSA.

Mr Ang Wei Neng asked the Minister for Education which 10 schools have accepted the most number of students, by gender, under the Direct School Admission (DSA) scheme over the past five years.

The DSA scheme seeks to promote holistic education by recognising a more diverse range of student strengths, abilities and achievements, other than performance at the national examinations, as criteria for school admission.

Based on MOE's most recent and available data on DSA exercises, from 2010 to 2012, participating Secondary schools made Confirmed Offers to about 2,400 students annually. These students comprised, on average, an even split between boys and girls, with about 196 or 8% of the students eventually deciding not to take up any offers by the participating Secondary schools but to participate in the Secondary 1 Posting Exercise.

Over the same period of time, the 10 participating Secondary schools that have accepted the most number of boys through DSA are (in alphabetical order):

(a) Anglo-Chinese School (Independent),

(b) Dunman High School,

(c) Hwa Chong Institution,

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(d) National Junior College,

(e) NUS High School of Mathematics and Science,

(f) Raffles Institution,

(g) School of Science and Technology Singapore,

(h) School of the Arts Singapore,

(i) St Joseph's Institution, and

(j) Victoria School.

The 10 participating Secondary schools that have accepted the most number of girls through DSA are (in alphabetical order)

(k) Cedar Girls' Secondary School,

(l) CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School,

(m) Dunman High School,

(n) Methodist Girls' School (Secondary),

(o) Nanyang Girls' High School,

(p) Raffles Girls' School (Secondary),

(q) River Valley High School,

(r) School of Science and Technology Singapore,

(s) School of the Arts Singapore, and

(t) Singapore Chinese Girls' School.

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