Bukit Timah Primary School

111 Lorong Kismis , 598112

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At a glance

Bukit Timah Primary School is a government co-ed school in Singapore that offers an academically steady curriculum with a broad appeal for primary-level students. The school is committed to nurturing well-rounded individuals through its comprehensive co-curricular activities.

School Type
Government School
Session Type
Single Session
Nearest MRT
Beauty World, Bukit Batok and Clementi Stations
Latest Ballot Year
2025
Government School Co-ed School Single Session sessions Nearest MRT: Beauty World, Bukit Batok and Clementi Stations
Estimated demand near this school: High
High

Directional estimate grouped by latest MOE ballot pressure, recent applied-rate trend, local child-population proxy, and nearby vacancies.

Demand signals snapshot
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SingStat is an area population proxy, not the number of children registering for this school. The one-year cohort estimate divides the age 5 to 9 count by 5.
Latest MOE ballot signal
Year
2025
Segment
- -
Phases balloted
2C
Latest applied rate
98%
Local child pool
SingStat age 5 to 9
1,080
Estimated 1-year cohort
216
Area
Anak Bukit (subzone)
Area share
4.9%
Nearby capacity
Nearby vacancies (2km)
1,134
Capacity context
About 5.3 vacancies per estimated local child
MOE balloted - - in 2025 in phases 2C.
Principal

MISS LAU WAN SZE

Vice Principals

MDM JAN LIN, MADAM KOH LEE KUN, SHIRLYN

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Ballot Results

See each year at a glance, then compare phase-by-phase demand in a cleaner format.

Trend by Year

Applied rate and taken rate compared across ballot years.

Applied Rate Taken Rate
90% 100% 110% 120% 130% 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 109% 101% 119% 106% 90% 100% 110% 120% 130% 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 109% 101% 119% 106%
Recent format

Vacancy shows available places. Applied rate shows demand. When MOE marks a phase for balloting, the school was oversubscribed for that phase.

2025
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
180
Applied Rate
119%
Taken Rate
106%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Balloting
Yes
Metric Phase 1 2A 2B 2C 2C(S)
Vacancies 120 78 44 132 39
Applied 42 6 0 104 63
Taken 42 6 0 104 39
Taken Rate 35% 8% 0% 79% 162%
Balloting - - - Yes Yes
Vacancies for ballot - - - 8 8
Balloting applicants - - - 18 11
Balloted group - - - - SC 1-2km
MOE balloting notes

MOE ballots only when applicants exceed remaining vacancies. The table above shows the phase counts and whether SC or PR had to ballot for each phase.

Highest demand: 2C(S) at 162%
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2C
Balloted group (SC/PR)

MOE did not publish a priority group for this phase.

2C(S) · SC 1-2km
Balloted group (SC/PR)

Singapore Citizen children residing between 1km and 2km of the school.

2024
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
180
Applied Rate
99%
Taken Rate
99%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 120 76 43 129 59 7
Applied 44 8 1 73 52 0
Taken 44 8 1 73 52 0
Taken Rate 37% 11% 2% 57% 88% 0%
2023
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
180
Applied Rate
116%
Taken Rate
102%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 120 56 36 111 40 180
Applied 64 7 1 71 66 0
Taken 64 7 1 71 40 0
Taken Rate 53% 13% 3% 64% 165% 0%
2022
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
190
Applied Rate
111%
Taken Rate
101%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 130 71 42 124 45 190
Applied 59 6 1 81 63 0
Taken 59 6 1 81 45 0
Taken Rate 45% 8% 2% 65% 140% 0%
Older format

Vacancy shows available places. Applied rate shows demand. When MOE marks a phase for balloting, the school was oversubscribed for that phase.

2021
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
210
Applied Rate
113%
Taken Rate
100%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A(1) 2A(2) 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 170 107 106 71 142 61 210
Applied 63 1 5 0 81 88 0
Taken 63 1 5 0 81 61 0
Taken Rate 37% 1% 5% 0% 57% 144% 0%
2020
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
210
Applied Rate
124%
Taken Rate
102%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A(1) 2A(2) 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 170 110 109 73 145 59 210
Applied 60 1 3 1 91 104 0
Taken 60 1 3 1 91 59 0
Taken Rate 35% 1% 3% 1% 63% 176% 0%
2019
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
180
Applied Rate
109%
Taken Rate
101%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A(1) 2A(2) 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 140 95 95 66 132 47 180
Applied 45 0 5 0 85 62 0
Taken 45 0 5 0 85 47 0
Taken Rate 32% 0% 5% 0% 64% 132% 0%
2018
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
210
Applied Rate
82%
Taken Rate
100%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A(1) 2A(2) 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 210 210 210 82 165 79 210
Applied 0 0 0 0 86 86 0
Taken 40 0 6 0 86 79 0
Taken Rate 0% 0% 0% 0% 52% 109% 0%
2017
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
180
Applied Rate
59%
Taken Rate
92%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A(1) 2A(2) 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 180 180 180 61 124 65 17
Applied 0 0 0 0 59 48 0
Taken 52 0 6 0 59 48 0
Taken Rate 0% 0% 0% 0% 48% 74% 0%
2016
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
180
Applied Rate
55%
Taken Rate
82%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A(1) 2A(2) 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 180 180 180 66 131 79 32
Applied 0 0 0 0 52 47 0
Taken 44 0 5 0 52 47 0
Taken Rate 0% 0% 0% 0% 40% 59% 0%
2015
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
180
Applied Rate
60%
Taken Rate
92%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A(1) 2A(2) 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 180 180 180 61 124 57 16
Applied 0 0 0 0 67 41 0
Taken 55 0 3 0 67 41 0
Taken Rate 0% 0% 0% 0% 54% 72% 0%
2014
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
180
Applied Rate
65%
Taken Rate
98%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A(1) 2A(2) 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 180 180 180 59 117 55 4
Applied 0 0 0 1 65 51 0
Taken 55 0 7 1 62 51 0
Taken Rate 0% 0% 0% 2% 56% 93% 0%
2013
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
180
Applied Rate
68%
Taken Rate
101%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A(1) 2A(2) 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 180 180 180 61 121 59 180
Applied 0 0 0 1 63 58 0
Taken 55 0 3 1 63 59 0
Taken Rate 0% 0% 0% 2% 52% 98% 0%
2012
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
180
Applied Rate
58%
Taken Rate
94%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A(1) 2A(2) 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 180 180 180 68 134 75 12
Applied 0 0 0 1 61 42 0
Taken 40 0 5 1 61 63 0
Taken Rate 0% 0% 0% 1% 46% 56% 0%
2011
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
180
Applied Rate
71%
Taken Rate
101%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A(1) 2A(2) 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 180 180 180 65 131 85 180
Applied 0 0 0 0 46 81 0
Taken 40 0 11 0 46 85 0
Taken Rate 0% 0% 0% 0% 35% 95% 0%
2010
Historical ballot data
Vacancies
180
Applied Rate
67%
Taken Rate
99%
Highest Demand
2C(S)
Metric Phase 1 2A(1) 2A(2) 2B 2C 2C(S) 3
Vacancies 180 180 180 61 121 75 180
Applied 0 0 0 1 50 70 0
Taken 51 0 7 1 50 70 0
Taken Rate 0% 0% 0% 2% 41% 93% 0%

School Reviews

Read Google and parent-contributed reviews for Bukit Timah Primary School, or share your own experience below.

"This was my primary school, I graduated in 2023! I loved the precious memories that I've made during my time in btps"

Marinew

March 13, 2025

"The teachers are quite supportive and I had a really awesome English teacher who helped me improve from AL4~5 to AL1. This is really nice but one thing they can improve on is the bullying as I had been bullied by a boy on several occasions. Overall still a four star 🥰"

WANG SIQI S1-08

March 01, 2025

"I had a great experience here in bukit timah, played in nsg, became an exco prefect,made many friends got a decent psle score of 13. Probably the most kind and caring teachers ive ever had."

amirr

January 03, 2025

"This school sucks. I am from Fairfield Primary when 6 girls from bukit timah primary just started laughing at my good friend. That was because at the back of his fairfield shirt was the word “OLSON” which is a surname of an important person who contributed to my school. We said we were going to report them, then they chased us and my friend fell on wet floor. He smashed his Iphone 14 pro max vry bad(partially screen protectors fault)"

beefy

October 09, 2024

"Everyone here is friendly, just don't make bad relationships with people in the school. Enjoy your life in btps. Teachers are very helpful and students here are very positive."

amir h

September 01, 2024

"武吉知马小学 Bukit Timah Primary School A neighbourhood primary school along Lorong Kismis estate. Formerly occupied by Toh Tuck Secondary School 笃德中学 in the earlier 70's to 90's. Last update/ review Feb2017"

HS Lim

February 28, 2017

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