Address used for registration

You must make a declaration of alternative child-care arrangement for your child's P1 registration if you want to use the address of a caregiver living within 2km of your preferred school.

You can make a declaration if you meet both of these conditions:

• You and your spouse are both working full-time at the time the declaration is made.
• Your child is under the care of a grandparent or a parent's sibling.

How to make a declaration

The declaration can only be made online. You must have a valid Singpass with 2-Factor Authentication (Singpass 2FA). Find out how to register for a Singpass 2FA if you don't have one.

The same parent must make the declaration and submit the P1 registration.

Only the parent who made the declaration can use the approved caregiver's address to register your child on the P1 Registration Portal. The other parent will not be able to do so.

Documents required

You must upload all of these documents when making the declaration:

• NRICs of both parents.
• NRIC of caregiver - child's grandparent or parent's sibling.
• Documents showing the relationship of parent and caregiver (such as the birth certificate of a parent, to prove the relationship to the child's grandparent, or the birth certificate of the parent's sibling, to prove the sibling relationship).

You must be prepared to produce additional supporting documents, upon request.

If balloting is required

If the caregiver’s address is within 2km of the school, your child will be balloted together with those of the same citizenship living between 1km to 2km of the school. This is regardless of how close the caregiver’s address is to the school.

If the caregiver’s address falls outside of 2km from the school, your child will be balloted together with those of the same citizenship living outside of 2km from the school.

Understand how balloting works.

30-month stay requirement

If the caregiver's address is successfully used for priority admission, you will have to continue with the same childcare arrangement at the same address for at least 30 months from the start of P1 Registration Exercise, which is 4 July 2023 for the 2023 P1 Registration Exercise. If not, your child may be transferred to another school with vacancies.

You can register your child for P1 using the address of a yet-to-be completed property you have purchased.

The vacant or delivery possession date of the new property you are moving into must be within 2 years of your child's entry into P1.

Declarations and documents required

You will need to undertake during registration that you will move into your new property within 2 years of your child’s entry into P1.

In the P1 Registration Portal, you will be directed to register via an online form.

After you have registered through the form, you must email one of these documents to the school during the phase that you are registering for:

• For HDB flat: A copy of the Agreement For Lease (AFL), which can be downloaded from MyHDBPage.
• For private property: A copy of the original Sales and Purchase agreement.

Find the school's email address on Schoolfinder.

30-month stay requirement

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 your family moves into your new home. If not, your child may be transferred to another school with vacancies.

You can register your child for P1 using the address of a resale property you have purchased.

Declarations and documents required

You will need to undertake during the registration that you will move into your new resale property by the start of your child's P1 academic year.

In the P1 Registration Portal, you will be directed to register via an online form.

After you have registered through the form, you must email one of these documents to the school during the phase you are registering for:

• For HDB flat: A printout of the resale flat status from the HDB Flat 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.

Find the school’s email address on Schoolfinder.

30-month stay requirement

A child who secures a school place through the Home-School Distance category priority using the address of a new resale property must stay at the new address for at least 30 months from the start of the child's P1 academic year. If not, your child may be transferred to another school with vacancies.