You can use SchoolFinder to find the schools near your home.

You can register your child at any school of your choice. If there are more applications than vacancies in a phase and in a home-school distance category, balloting will be conducted. Find out more about how balloting works.

You can use the new address if you can produce evidence from the relevant authority that you have committed to the purchase of the property:

• For HDB flat: A printout of the “New Flat” page from MyHDBPage.
• For private property: A copy of the original Sales and Purchase agreement.

The vacant or delivery possession date of the property must be within 2 years of your child’s entry into P1. For the 2021 P1 Registration Exercise, the dates must be no later than 31 December 2023. If they fall slightly beyond that, you may contact us for assistance and we will assess your situation on a case-by-case basis.

You also need to sign a letter of undertaking (LOU) to state that you will move into your new property within 2 years of your child's entry into P1. The school will send you the LOU via email, and you will have to sign and email a scanned copy of the LOU to the school by the stated date.

You will also need to produce the original signed LOU to the school if you have successfully secured a place at the school. The school will provide you more details on the submission of the LOU.

Note: A child who secures a school place through the home-school distance category priority must stay at the new address for at least 30 months starting from the time the family moves into the property.

For example, if the child registers for P1 in 2021 and only moves into the new address in July 2023, the 30-month stay period starts from July 2023.

You do not need to seek our approval to change your residential address.

However, if your child gains priority admission through a home-school distance category, they will need to reside at the address used for registration for at least 30 months from the start of the 2021 P1 Registration Exercise on 30 June 2021. If not, MOE reserves the right to transfer the child out of the school to another school with vacancies.

You can check the home-school distance category from the Singapore Land Authority's (SLA) OneMap SchoolQuery Service. To use this service:

1. Go to SchoolQuery on the OneMap website.
2. Read the "School Query - Disclaimer" information and select "I Agree"
3. Select the "Find Schools Near a Building" option.
4. Enter your residential address in the "Search and Explore" box. Your address will be displayed in the dropdown address list.
5. Select your address. A list of "Schools within 1km" and "Schools between 1-2km" will be displayed.

For more information, you can email SLA_enquiry@sla.gov.sg or call the SLA helpdesk at 1800 323 9829.

Alternatively, you may check with the schools directly on the distance between your home and the schools, in June.

When the demand exceeds vacancies in a phase, priority admission will be given by citizenship (Singapore Citizen before Permanent Resident), followed by those who live nearer to the school based on home-school distance categories in this order of priority – “within 1km”, “between 1km and 2km” and lastly “more than 2km”.

This priority given under the “within 1km” and “between 1km and 2km” distance categories (including the eligibility to be balloted within these distance categories) is given with the expectation that the family will remain at the address for the duration of the child’s primary school studies, as it is for the convenience and interest of the child.

In a small number of cases, there may be situations where the families are unable to remain at the address for the entire duration of the primary school studies. Even so, a child who gains priority admission into a school through their distance category is required to reside at the address used for registration for at least 30 months from the commencement of the P1 Registration Exercise on 30 June 2021. If this condition is not met, MOE reserves the right to transfer the child to another school with vacancies, as the basis for priority admission to the first school was the declared address used for registration.

You should arrange to extend your lease accordingly, such that your child resides at the address for at least 30 months from the start of the 2021 P1 Registration Exercise on 30 June 2021. If this condition is subsequently not met, MOE reserves the right to transfer your child to another school.

You can use the new address if you can produce evidence from the relevant authority that you have committed to the purchase of the property and that you are still in the midst of completing the purchase at the point of registration:

• For HDB flat: a printout of the resale flat status from the HDB Resale Portal. It must indicate that HDB has received your application to buy a resale flat.
• For private property: the exercised Option-To-Purchase (OTP) and buyer’s Stamp Duty Certificate.

You also need to sign a letter of undertaking (LOU) to state that you will move into your new property by 3 January in the year of your child’s P1 admission. The school will send you the LOU via email, and you will have to sign and email a scanned copy of the LOU to the school by the stated date.

You will also need to produce the original signed LOU to the school if you have successfully secured a place at the school. The school will provide you more details on the submission of the LOU.

Note: A child who secures a school place through the home-school distance category priority using the address of a resale property must stay at the new address for at least 30 months starting from 3 January in the year of their P1 admission.

If the school relocates because of a merger or because it has a new site, the new site of the school will be used to determine the distance.

If the school moves to a holding school while waiting for its permanent site to be upgraded or rebuilt, the permanent site of the school will be used to determine the distance.

The address to be used is the official residential address on the parents’ NRIC. If the addresses on both parents’ NRICs are different, parents should decide on the address to be used for registration. This address will be used to determine the home-school distance category. If the child gains priority admission under the home-school distance category, you will have to reside at the address used for registration for at least 30 months from the commencement of the P1 Registration Exercise on 30 June 2021. If this condition is subsequently not met, MOE reserves the right to transfer the child out of the school to another school.

The school's permanent location will be used to determine the distance for the P1 Registration Exercise. You may check with the school for more details.

A child who gains priority admission into a school through their distance category is required to reside at the address used for registration for at least 30 months from the commencement of the 2021 P1 Registration Exercise on 30 June 2021. If this condition is not met, MOE reserves the right to transfer the child to another school with vacancies, as the priority admission to the first school was based on the declared address used for registration.

OneMap is an integrated online map system for all government agencies to deliver location-based services and information.

The system has been put in place by both Singapore Land Authority (SLA) and MOE to determine the home-school distance categories used in the annual P1 Registration Exercise.

MOE determines the reference point of the school for the home-school distance calculations based on the school's original layout.

To find out the distance between your school of choice and residence, click here.

It is strictly applied from the commencement of the P1 Registration Exercise. For the 2021 P1 Registration Exercise, the 30-month stay requirement starts from 30 June 2021.