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Tanjong Katong 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.

Address10 Seraya RoadSingapore 437259 · co-ed
P1 places200in the 2025 and 2026 exercises
Phase 2CNo ballotin 2026 (balloted in 2025)
Who got Phase 2C placesCitizens within 1 km onlyin 2026, with no ballot needed

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 140 places · 67 appliedEveryone admitted140 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 73 places · 78 appliedBalloted: Permanent Residents within 1 km59 places · 104 appliedBalloted: citizens living more than 2 km away2 places for 32 children in the ballot56 places · 31 appliedNo ballot
Phase 2BParent volunteers (40 hours), parents endorsed by a church or clan connected with the school, or active grassroots leaders 20 places · 9 appliedNo ballot20 places · 9 appliedNo ballot28 places · 16 appliedNo ballot
Phase 2CEvery child not yet registered: this is where buying near the school counts 56 places · 94 appliedNo ballot: places went only to citizens within 1 km53 places · 83 appliedBalloted: citizens 1 to 2 km away13 places for 23 children in the ballot73 places · 104 appliedBalloted
Phase 2C SupplementaryChildren still without a place after Phase 2C Not held: no places leftNot 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 Tanjong Katong Primary. Phase 2C was balloted in 7 of the 8 years from 2019 to 2026. In 2025, every citizen within 1 km got a place, and 23 citizens living 1 to 2 km away balloted for the remaining 13. In 2026, 94 children applied for 56 places. There was no ballot, but the places went only to citizens living within 1 km: all of them got in, and nobody further away did. Every citizen living within 1 km got a Phase 2C place in both years.

How far out the places go depends on how many families apply each year. Demand can change from year to year, especially as new homes are completed nearby, so check the latest figures in your registration year.

That changes from the 2027 exercise. Tanjong Katong 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 Tanjong Katong Primary took 200 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
202656941.7No ballot: places went only to citizens within 1 km
202553831.6Balloted: citizens 1 to 2 km away
2024731041.4Balloted
2023871081.2Balloted
202275981.3Balloted
202178941.2Balloted
2020891141.3Balloted
2019951071.1Balloted

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

Tanjong Katong Primary School at a glance

The school

Type
Government school
Students
Boys and girls
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
10 Seraya Road, Singapore 437259 · Map
Phone
6344 4728
Email
tkps@moe.edu.sg
Website
tanjongkatongpri.moe.edu.sg

CCAs (13)

Sports

Basketball · Floorball · Football · Netball

Performing and visual arts

Chinese Dance · Choir · Guitar Ensemble · Malay Dance · Modern Dance

Uniformed groups

Scouts

Clubs and societies

Art and Crafts · English Language, Drama and Debating · Infocomm Technology (Media Production)

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

D.R.I.V.E. - Developing Resilient Innovative Entrepreneurs

Innovation & Enterprise

Learning for Life Programme

Team Sports Excellence @ TKP

Sports & Outdoor Education

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 launch near Tanjong Katong Primary School

Arina East Residences: the two blocks linked by the sky terracesArtist's impression Within 2 km of Tanjong Katong Primary School · Two-Track

Arina East Residences

6C and 6D Tanjong Rhu Road, about 1.8 km from the school's grounds in a straight line on the map; OneMap's school query in the developer's sales kit lists the school between 1 and 2 km. It launched in June 2025 and all 107 homes are now sold.
  • Vacant possession: by 31 December 2028 (developer's information)
  • So its address can be used from the 2027 registration if the date in your sale and purchase agreement is by 31 December 2028: children born 2 Jan 2021 to 1 Jan 2022, and younger
  • From the 2027 exercise Tanjong Katong Primary is a Two-Track school: half of its Phase 2C places go to children living within 2 km, with no distance priority inside that half. In 2025, 23 citizens living 1 to 2 km away balloted for the last 13 places; in 2026, the places went only to citizens within 1 km.
Arina East Residences location & 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. For a new launch, 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 Tanjong Katong Primary?

In 2025, every citizen within 1 km got a place, and 23 citizens living 1 to 2 km away balloted for the remaining 13. In 2026, 94 children applied for 56 places. There was no ballot, but the places went only to citizens living within 1 km: all of them got in, and nobody further away did.

Does living within 1 km of Tanjong Katong Primary guarantee a place?

In 2026, every Singapore Citizen living within 1 km who applied in Phase 2C got a place. That can change from year to year with the number of applicants. From the 2027 exercise, Tanjong Katong 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 Tanjong Katong Primary have?

200 in the 2026 exercise. 56 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.