Median household income of primary school students taking foundation subjects

Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament

Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang, Nee Soon GRC

Question

To ask the Minister for Education (a) for each year in the past five years, what is the median household income of primary school students who (i) take one foundation subject (ii) take two or more foundation subjects and (iii) do not take any foundation subjects, respectively; and (b) whether the Ministry intends to collect such data if it currently does not do so.

Response

1. MOE does not have data on household income of students, except for Singapore citizens who apply for the MOE Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS), where the income criterion is set at about the bottom quintile of the national household income. Over the past 5 years, on average, 2 in 5 students who took at least one subject at Foundation level in the PSLE were on MOE FAS.