Primary 1

Primary 1

How hard is it to get in?

Cantonment Primary School

Co-edGovernmentCentral

Your odds

Registration phase

Phase 2C: every child not yet registered. Most families apply here. Who qualifies (MOE)

Citizenship
Home–school distance
Very likelyModel estimate · everyone placed last time

In 2025, everyone who applied in Phase 2C got a place.

Based on how the phase went last time; demand changes every year. You can only register in a phase your child is eligible for, and in one school per phase.

Balloting by phase

Phase2025
1–
2AOpen
2BOpen
2COpen
2C SOpen

Open: everyone placed<1 km: citizens within 1 km ballotedUp to 2 km: no ballot, places ran out beyond 2 kmFilled: not held, places already taken

2025 Phase 2C116 places · 29 applicants

2025 exercise, phase by phase · 150 P1 places

Phase 1 (siblings)90 places
Phase 2A (alumni, staff, parent in school bodies)61 places · 5 applied
Phase 2B (volunteers, church/clan links, grassroots leaders)39 places · 0 applied
Phase 2C (everyone not yet registered)116 places · 29 applied
Phase 2C Supplementary87 places · 22 applied

Places left for each phase after the earlier ones; MOE doesn't publish Phase 1 applicant numbers. The 2025 exercise was for children starting P1 in 2026.

2027 rule change: Phase 2C keeps 40 reserved places at schools with fewer than 180 P1 places, like this one.

School details

1 Cantonment Close, Singapore 088256

Nearest MRT: Tanjong Pagar, Outram Park

cantonmentpri.moe.edu.sg

Source: MOE P1 Registration vacancies and balloting data, retrieved 27 Sept 2026. Odds are Pickaskool's estimate from past results, not MOE's. Check eligibility and dates on moe.gov.sg.