Primary schools in Hougang

What registering in Hougang actually looks like

Hougang has 9 primary schools and 1,830 P1 places for 2026. The figures below are what happened at Phase 2C, the phase used by families with no prior link to the school.

• 4 of them went to a ballot at Phase 2C in each of 2025, 2024 and 2023: CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity, Holy Innocents', Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (Primary), and Xinmin. At those schools a place came down to the ballot, not to applying early.
• 3 of them took every Phase 2C applicant without a ballot in all 3 of those years, because fewer children applied than there were places: Montfort Junior, Xinghua, and Yio Chu Kang. A school that has not balloted before can still ballot next year. This is the record, not a forecast.
• 4 of them have an affiliated secondary school, which lets eligible children register in Phase 2A: CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity, Holy Innocents', Montfort Junior, and Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (Primary). Places taken in Phase 2A are places that no longer reach Phase 2C.
• 2 of them host an MOE Kindergarten, and a child studying there is eligible for Phase 2A at that school: Hougang and Punggol.

On school buses, 6 of the 9 publish a fare table on their own site, and across Hougang the monthly fares run $160 to $500. 3 of those tables state a maximum rather than a set price. What a family actually pays depends on the distance band, the bus size and whether the trip is one way or two, so it varies by school. Confirm with that school's operator. Fares and operator per school

The Phase 2C record above is read from the same year by year data as the table on this page (2025, 2024 and 2023). The 2026 result was published on 5 August and is too recent to count as a pattern.