Registration runs from 9am on 17 August to 4.30pm on 18 August, with results on 27 August. Here's which schools still have vacancies, and what happens if this phase doesn't work out either.
By Marcus Toh · 2026-08-14
Phase 2C Supplementary is the last stop before MOE simply assigns your child a seat. If your child didn't secure a place across Phase 1 to Phase 2C, whether their preferred school balloted them out or they hadn't registered yet, this is the phase to use.
Registration runs from 9am on Monday, 17 August 2026 to 4.30pm on Tuesday, 18 August 2026, with results out on Thursday, 27 August 2026.
If this phase doesn't work out either, MOE posts your child straight to a school with an available vacancy, so there is no second ballot to brace for. You can check the outcome through the P1 Registration Portal on results day, and MOE also sends an SMS.
MOE reserves 20 places per school for Phase 2B and 40 for Phase 2C at the start of the exercise. After Phase 2A, one third of any remaining places goes to Phase 2B and two thirds to Phase 2C, and after Phase 2B closes, whatever is left rolls into Phase 2C. What's on the table in Phase 2C Supplementary is whatever survives all of that.
MOE's vacancy checker updates school by school as applications come in. Here is a spread from the lowest to the highest counts, so you can see how wide the gap actually is. The numbers move as offers are taken up, so check the live page before you shortlist.
| School | Available vacancies in Phase 2C Supplementary |
|---|---|
| Canberra Primary School | 1 |
| Bukit View Primary School | 5 |
| CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity | 8 |
| CHIJ (Katong) Primary | 10 |
| Bukit Timah Primary School | 16 |
| Casuarina Primary School | 35 |
| CHIJ (Kellock) | 48 |
| Cantonment Primary School | 57 |
| Ang Mo Kio Primary School | 110 |
| Changkat Primary School | 189 |
Two schools above have also hit MOE's cap on Permanent Resident intake for this phase. At Bukit Timah Primary School, the maximum vacancies available to PRs is 0, so its remaining seats go to Singapore Citizen children only. At Cantonment Primary School, that cap sits at 10, after which Singapore Citizens are admitted first regardless of home to school distance. If you're weighing a school near Bukit Timah tuition centres for after school support, check your child's PR status against this cap before you register.
Balloting only kicks in when a school gets more applications than seats left in this phase, and MOE runs through a fixed order rather than treating everyone the same. Picture two families applying for the last seat, one Singapore Citizen and one Permanent Resident, both living just outside 2km. Here is the order MOE actually works through:
Only when two or more applications land in the exact same group does MOE run a computerised ballot, and every applicant in that group is assured an equal chance at the remaining seats. That's the one line worth acting on: home distance decides your group, the ballot only decides within it.
You should feel calmer going into Phase 2C Supplementary, not more anxious, because this round exists precisely so every child registered here ends up with a place. I know it feels like the last chance saloon after four earlier phases have already filled seats, but the mechanic behind it removes the scariest part of the story. If your application here doesn't succeed, your child is not left without a school, they are posted straight to one with an available vacancy.
That should change what you're actually doing this week. Rather than fixating on the one or two well known schools that balloted out weeks ago, the vacancy checker shows real numbers, school by school, right now, and some genuinely good schools near you likely still have dozens of seats open. Register for one you'd be happy with, not the one everyone else is chasing, because in this phase your odds come from that list, not from reputation.
And once the result lands on 27 August, remember that every primary school in Singapore teaches the same national curriculum. The school gate matters far less than what your child does after 3pm, and that work starts the same way regardless of which name ends up on the uniform.
Your child qualifies if they were born between 2 January 2020 and 1 January 2021 (both dates inclusive). Singaporean children living overseas and international students follow separate timelines outside the five phases for Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
No. MOE allows only one school registration per phase, and multiple applications are not accepted. If you submit more than once, MOE simply takes your latest submission made during the phase.
You can apply for a deferment if your child has been medically assessed as not ready or unsuitable for P1, rather than registering them into a phase they aren't ready for.
MOE's SchoolFinder tool lets you search by address to see which primary schools fall within your home's registration distance, the same distance bands used to set priority order in balloting.