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Where Can I Check Primary 1 Registration Vacancies and Balloting Data? | Current Updates and Past Results

Did you know? MOE keeps two different kinds of Primary 1 registration information. Use the official vacancies and balloting updates page for the exercise in progress, and the past vacancies and balloting data checker when you are comparing earlier exercises.

The live page updates the number of available vacancies and applicants during each registration phase. The historical checker helps you see what happened at a named school in a previous year. As of 10 October 2026, MOE states that the 2026 exercise for Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents has ended, so families planning ahead should use past data as context and return for the next exercise’s live updates.

Check the school, registration year, eligible phase, citizenship group and home–school distance information before drawing a conclusion. A previous ballot or a year with spare places does not promise the same result next year. The official P1 registration page and current exercise instructions remain the route for an actual application.

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Choose an official source · Separate live and past data · Read the phase correctly · Use history without predicting · Make a current school shortlist · Read the next explanation

Which source answers your question?

Your questionStart hereWhat to check
See current-exercise numbersMOE vacancies and balloting updatesExercise year, phase, vacancies and applicants
Review an earlier exerciseMOE past data checkerSchool, phase, distance group and outcome
Check the full registration routeMOE P1 registrationEligibility, phases, dates and portal instructions
Understand the wider decisioneduKate P1 registration explanationReturn to MOE for the live application
Use live updates for the current exercise and historical data only as evidence of what happened before.

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Separate live and past data

A live exercise page answers “What is happening in this phase now?” The number of applications can change while a phase is open, and MOE publishes the resulting balloting status through the official route. Record the date and phase whenever you take a screenshot or note a figure.

A past-data page answers a different question: “What happened at this school in that completed exercise?” It is useful for seeing whether demand reached particular distance groups, but it is not the vacancy counter for your child’s registration year.

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Read the phase correctly

Primary 1 registration is organised by phases with different eligibility rules. Compare figures only within the phase that applies to your child. A result from Phase 2B cannot be treated as a forecast for Phase 2C, because the applicant pool and the places remaining are different.

Citizenship and distance can affect priority when balloting is required, and MOE also publishes information about the cap on Permanent Resident intake for the relevant phases. Use the current MOE explanation rather than copying a family’s outcome without its applicant category.

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Use history without predicting

Historical data can reveal that demand varies by school, phase and year. It cannot tell you how many families will apply next time, whether school capacity will change or whether a policy update will alter the exercise. Treat it as a planning signal, not a probability guarantee.

A calm shortlist includes several schools your family can genuinely use. Consider the daily journey, programmes, support and school fit alongside past registration figures. The closest match is not always the school with the most dramatic ballot history.

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Make a current school shortlist

Open MOE SchoolFinder and confirm the school’s current profile and location. Then check the live registration page for the next exercise’s dates and instructions. Keep each school’s historical figures labelled with the correct year.

When registration opens, follow the portal and phase instructions shown by MOE. If a figure appears unclear, use the official P1 registration contact route with the school name, phase and exercise year stated. That makes the question much easier to answer accurately.

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Read the next useful explanation

Read the full Primary 1 registration explanation

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Official sources reviewed on 10 October 2026. MOE’s current exercise page, historical checker and registration instructions answer different questions and should be read together.

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Explore the connected learning guides

Choose the question that brought you here. Open one useful guide, try a small task, and stop when you have what you need.

Take one question further

The same learning habit can travel across subjects, while each subject keeps its own methods. These routes help you notice a difficulty, understand one part of it, and return to something you can do.

A word is familiar, but using it is difficult.

Move from recognising a word to retrieving it in a new context. Understand vocabulary plateaus.

Try it without the guide: Choose one word you already know. Close the guide and use it in a new sentence. Explain why it fits; try another context tomorrow.

A piece of writing has ideas, but the reader loses the thread.

Make the order of events and the links between sentences clear. Explore composition writing.

Try it without the guide: Choose one short paragraph. Read the relevant explanation, close it, and revise the paragraph. Ask someone to tell you what happened and why.

The Mathematics seems familiar, but marks still disappear.

Find the first point where the working stops being reliable. Find Secondary 4 A-Math mark leakage.

Try it without the guide: For a Secondary 4 A-Math question you have attempted, locate the first uncertain line. Repair that step, then try a comparable question without the worked answer.

A Science fact is remembered, but the explanation is incomplete.

Connect the evidence to a scientific idea and the resulting change. Follow the Primary Science learning route.

Try it without the guide: Choose a familiar Primary Science example. Explain the evidence, the idea and the result without notes. Then change one condition and explain your prediction.

Two accounts of the world seem to disagree.

Check the question, source, date and evidence before combining claims. Explore the World Knowledge research library.

Try it without the guide: Take one claim. Find the source best placed to support it, note its date, and state what remains uncertain. Return to your original question.

There is plenty of help, but independence is hard to see.

Check what the learner can understand and do after support is removed. Understand how education works.

Try it without the guide: Choose one small task the child has practised. Agree on a calm, brief attempt without prompts. Use what happens to choose one next step, then stop.

For the structure behind these connections, read the eduKateSingapore runtime manifest and the eduKate ecosystem boot contract. The reader map describes public navigation; those manifests preserve the wider ownership and return rules.

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