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Raffles Girls' Primary School: P1 balloting, and buying a home nearby

For parents thinking of moving so their child can apply as a near-school resident. Below: how many places there were, how many children applied and who had to ballot in the last three registration exercises, then what MOE requires before you can register from a home you've just bought.

Address21 Hillcrest RoadSingapore 289072 · girls' school
P1 places270in the 2025 and 2026 exercises
Phase 2CNo ballotin 2026 (balloted in 2025)
Near-school applicantsEveryone got a placein Phase 2C in 2026

The last three years

Places, applicants and balloting by phase

Each cell shows the places available in that phase and the number of children who applied. "Balloted" means there were more applicants than places. Where MOE published which group had to ballot, it's shown.

Swipe the table sideways for 2025 and 2024 →

Phase202620252024
Phase 1A brother or sister is studying at the school 210 places · 57 appliedEveryone admitted210 placesEveryone admittedNot published
Phase 2AA parent or sibling studied there; parent is on the school's advisory or management committee, or works there; child is in the school's MOE Kindergarten 153 places · 55 appliedNo ballot150 places · 64 appliedNo ballot146 places · 43 appliedNo ballot
Phase 2BParent volunteers (40 hours), parents endorsed by a church or clan connected with the school, or active grassroots leaders 53 places · 24 appliedNo ballot49 places · 31 appliedNo ballot55 places · 29 appliedNo ballot
Phase 2CEvery child not yet registered: this is where buying near the school counts 137 places · 128 appliedNo ballot115 places · 143 appliedBalloted: citizens living more than 2 km away17 places for 36 children in the ballot135 places · 183 appliedBalloted
Phase 2C SupplementaryChildren still without a place after Phase 2C 10 places · 31 appliedBalloted: citizens 1 to 2 km awayNot held: all places filled in Phase 2CNot held: no places left

2025: MOE's published vacancies and balloting data. 2026: MOE's final figures for the exercise (July–August 2026), from SGSchoolKaki's tracker; MOE adds 2026 to its own archive in January 2027. 2024: MOE's figures from SGSchoolKaki's ballot history; the group that balloted wasn't available for 2024. Phase 1 applicant numbers are shown where they were published.

What this means if you're moving for Raffles Girls' Primary. Phase 2C was balloted in 7 of the 8 years from 2019 to 2026. In 2025, every citizen within 2 km got a place, and 36 citizens living more than 2 km away balloted for the last 17. In 2026, there were 137 places for 128 applicants, so everyone who applied got a place. Every citizen living within 2 km got a Phase 2C place in both years.

Phase 2C was tighter in 2025 than in 2026, so demand here moves from year to year. Check the latest figures in your registration year, especially as new homes are completed nearby.

That changes from the 2027 exercise. Raffles Girls' Primary is one of the 12 schools in MOE's new Two-Track Scheme. Its Phase 2C places will be split equally between children living within 2 km and those living further away, with no distance priority inside each track, so a family 1.9 km away is in the same pool as one next door to the school. Citizens still come before Permanent Residents. What the Two-Track Scheme means for property.

From the 2027 exercise (for children starting P1 in 2028), MOE reserves 60 places for Phase 2C at schools with a P1 intake of 180 or more, and Raffles Girls' Primary took 270 in 2026. As one of the 12 Two-Track schools, those places are 30 for children living within 2 km and 30 for those beyond 2 km, with no distance priority inside each track; places one track doesn't use go to the other. More on the 2027 changes.

Phase 2C since 2019

The phase where living near the school counts, year by year. More than one applicant per place means a ballot.

YearPlacesAppliedApplicants per placeResult
20261371280.9No ballot
20251151431.2Balloted: citizens living more than 2 km away
20241351831.4Balloted
20231131301.2Balloted
2022901251.4Balloted
2021971161.2Balloted
2020771762.3Balloted
20191231721.4Balloted

2026: MOE's final figures, from SGSchoolKaki's tracker. 2025: MOE's published data. 2019–2024: MOE's figures from SGSchoolKaki's ballot history (which group balloted wasn't published for those years).

About the school

Raffles Girls' Primary School at a glance

The school

Type
Government school
Students
Girls only
Mother tongue
Chinese, Malay and Tamil
Levels
Primary 1 to 6
Fees
Singapore Citizens pay no school fees, only $13 a month in miscellaneous fees. Permanent Residents and international students also pay school fees: see MOE's fee checker.

Contact & getting there

Address
21 Hillcrest Road, Singapore 289072 · Map
MRT / LRT
Tan Kah Kee MRT Station
Phone
6468 4377
Email
rgps@moe.edu.sg
Website
rafflesgirlspri.moe.edu.sg

CCAs (17)

Sports

Badminton · Basketball · Shooting · Softball · Table Tennis

Performing and visual arts

Chinese Dance · Choir · Concert Band · English Drama · String Ensemble

Uniformed groups

Girl Guides (Brownies) · Girls' Brigade

Clubs and societies

Art and Crafts · Environmental Science · Infocomm Technology (Computing) · International Chess · Media Resource Library

Signature programmes

Every primary school runs an Applied Learning Programme (hands-on learning, often in science or technology) and a Learning for Life Programme (character and life skills, through sport, the arts or community work).

Applied Learning Programme

Nurturing Confident Communicators

Languages

Learning for Life Programme

Developing Creativity Through Collaborative Music Making

Music & Performing Arts

School details, CCAs and programmes from MOE's school directory on data.gov.sg (updated by MOE in April 2026). Schools add and change CCAs from time to time, so check the school's website for the latest.

Buying near the school

Registering from a home you've just bought

MOE uses the parents' NRIC address to place a child in a distance category. It also accepts the address of a home you've bought but haven't moved into yet, under these conditions.

A new launch (not yet completed)

  • The home's vacant possession date in your sale and purchase agreement must be within two years of your child starting P1. MOE doesn't accept the probable completion date.
  • You undertake to move in within two years of your child starting P1, and send the school a copy of the sale and purchase agreement during the phase.
  • If the address gets your child priority, you must live there for at least 30 months from the day you move in.

A completed home (resale)

  • You can register while the purchase is going through: for a private home, send the exercised option to purchase and the buyer's stamp duty certificate; for an HDB flat, the resale application status from HDB.
  • You undertake to live there from the start of your child's P1 school term.
  • You must then live there for at least 30 months from the start of P1.

If the 30-month stay isn't met, MOE transfers the child to another school of its choosing. MOE also checks for addresses used only for registration. Rules from MOE as at October 2026; always check moe.gov.sg in your registration year.

Which registration year can use a new launch address?

Worked out from MOE's own example (children registering in 2026 need a vacant possession date no later than 31 December 2028).

P1 registrationChild bornStarts P1Vacant possession by
20272 Jan 2021 – 1 Jan 2022January 202831 Dec 2029
20282 Jan 2022 – 1 Jan 2023January 202931 Dec 2030
20292 Jan 2023 – 1 Jan 2024January 203031 Dec 2031
20302 Jan 2024 – 1 Jan 2025January 203131 Dec 2032

Homes within 2 km

New and upcoming launches near Raffles Girls' Primary School

Dunearn House: the 19-storey and 10-storey blocks at dusk, with Bukit Timah Hill behindArtist's impression 1 to 2 km from Raffles Girls' Primary

Dunearn House

760 to 770 Dunearn Road, Bukit Timah Turf City, about 1.5 km from the school's grounds in a straight line on the map. It launched in July 2026 and units are still available.
  • Vacant possession: by 31 December 2030 (developer's information)
  • So its address can be used from the 2028 registration if the date in your sale and purchase agreement is by 31 December 2030: children born 2 Jan 2022 to 1 Jan 2023, and younger
  • From the 2027 exercise this is a Two-Track school: an address within 2 km is in the same Phase 2C track as one next door
Dunearn House location & schools → Map of the Dunearn Road (Turf City) site, with the plot outlinedSite map 1 to 2 km from Raffles Girls' Primary School

Dunearn Road (Turf City)

Upcoming condo at Dunearn Road, Bukit Timah, by Wing Tai Holdings and Metro Holdings: about 330 homes. The site is about 1.5 to 1.7 km from the school in a straight line on OneMap, within 2 km of a Two-Track girls' school from the 2027 exercise.
  • Not launched yet: no launch date yet. The name, size and dates can still change, and each block's distance is only known once the addresses are out
  • Every Phase 2C applicant got a place in 2026; Phase 2C balloted among citizens beyond 2 km in 2025. A Two-Track school from 2027.
Dunearn Road: what we know so far →

Also near Dunearn House: Methodist Girls' School (Primary), also within 2 km, and Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School, about 1.9 km, both Two-Track schools. MOE's official distance category is measured from the school's boundary to the building's outline on OneMap, and can change from year to year. Check it with the unit's postal code on onemap.gov.sg/school in your registration year. The vacant possession date that counts is the one in your sale and purchase agreement.

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Questions people ask me

How hard is it to get into Raffles Girls' Primary?

In 2025, every citizen within 2 km got a place, and 36 citizens living more than 2 km away balloted for the last 17. In 2026, there were 137 places for 128 applicants, so everyone who applied got a place.

Does living within 1 km of Raffles Girls' Primary guarantee a place?

In 2026, every child who applied in Phase 2C got a place, wherever they lived. That can change from year to year with the number of applicants. From the 2027 exercise, Raffles Girls' Primary is one of the 12 Two-Track schools: its Phase 2C places are split between children living within 2 km and those beyond 2 km, with no priority for living closer inside each track.

How many Primary 1 places does Raffles Girls' Primary have?

270 in the 2026 exercise. 137 of them were left for Phase 2C, the phase where living near the school counts.

Other primary schools nearby

Sources. Ministry of Education: P1 registration (phases, distance priority, balloting, home address and 30-month stay requirement, and the changes from the 2027 exercise) and its 2025 vacancies and balloting data. SGSchoolKaki for 2024, the earlier years and the 2026 figures. School details, CCAs and programmes from MOE's school directory on data.gov.sg. This page is general information, not advice on your child's eligibility: check your phase and distance category with MOE and OneMap.