{"id":161,"date":"2026-08-30T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/singapore-education-planning-timeline\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T22:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:34:55","slug":"singapore-education-planning-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/singapore-education-planning-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving to Singapore for your child&#8217;s education: the full planning timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore school places are finite and the good ones fill early. Families who begin the process three months before an intake are usually choosing from what is left, not from what fits.<\/p>\n<h2>Twelve months out: decide the pathway<\/h2>\n<p>International curriculum or local system? These are different journeys with different admission mechanics, different costs and very different implications for what your child does afterwards.<\/p>\n<h2>Nine months out: shortlist and assess<\/h2>\n<p>School fit depends on your child&#8217;s current curriculum, their English level, their year group and, frankly, on which schools have space in that year group at all.<\/p>\n<h2>Six months out: applications and testing<\/h2>\n<p>Most international schools assess applicants. Local schools admit international students through a centralised placement exercise with fixed windows that do not move for anyone.<\/p>\n<h2>Three months out: pass, housing, arrival<\/h2>\n<p>A Student Pass application follows an offer, not the other way around. Housing decisions should follow the school decision, since commute times in Singapore vary more than newcomers expect.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like a shortlist of schools that genuinely fit your child, ask us for a school assessment.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most families start too late. Here is the honest timeline, working backwards from the intake you are aiming for.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides","category-singapore-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}