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Primary 1 registration: 5 schools head for balloting in Phase 2A(1)

Parents hoping to land a place in สล็อต168 five popular primary schools for their children next year are headed for balloting for Phase 2A(1) of the Primary 1 registration exercise.

According to the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) website on Friday (Jul 9), the schools are Catholic High School (Primary), CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School (Primary), Nanyang Primary School, Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School and Rosyth Primary School.

Next year's cohort of Primary 1 students was born in 2015, which saw the highest number of citizen births in 13 years at 33,725. This figure is also higher than the 33,238 babies born in 2012, the Year of the Dragon.

The Phase 2A(1) balloting for the five schools will be carried out for students living outside of the 2km radius from these schools, said MOE on its website.

Phase 2A(1) is open to parents who are members of a school's alumni association, or who are members of the school’s advisory or management committee.

Every year, a school will have to reserve 40 Primary 1 places for Phase 2B and Phase 2C - 20 each phase - to ensure “continued open access to all schools in later phases”, said MOE.

But if a school is already oversubscribed in Phase 2A(1), it goes to the ballot.

In 2020, CHIJ St Nicholas, Pei Hwa Presbyterian and Rosyth also held a ballot for this phase, alongside Nan Hua Primary School.

This year, Catholic High saw 123 applicants for 119 places in Phase 2A(1). Rosyth saw 102 parents apply for the 81 spots available.

Over at Nanyang Primary, 150 applicants will ballot for 140 available vacancies, and at Pei Hwa Presbyterian, 86 parents will draw for 71 spots.

And, the 121 parents hoping to get their daughters into CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ will ballot for the 77 places available.