Secondary School Cut-Off Points 2026: PSLE Score Range for Every School

Where do these secondary school cut-off points come from?

The secondary school cut-off points on this page are copied from MOE's SchoolFinder, the official Singapore school search tool. Each school's page has a table titled "PSLE score range of 2025", and the SchoolFinder list page carries the same records for every school, all dated 12 Jan 2026. We read them on 30 Oct 2026 and changed no figure. The only edit is that "16-22" is written as "16 to 22".

The "2025" in MOE's title is the PSLE year. These students sat the PSLE in 2025, were posted in what MOE calls the 2025 S1 Posting, and began Secondary 1 in January 2026, so this is the latest set of COPs available before PSLE 2026 choices open.

A lower PSLE score is a stronger result, because it is the sum of four Achievement Levels and 4 is the best possible. Our PSLE AL scores guide and PSLE score calculator show how ALs add up, and PSLE cut-off points explained covers how a COP forms, so this page sticks to the numbers.

What do PG1, PG2, PG3, IP and the symbols mean?

Posting Groups are MOE's three bands of PSLE score for Secondary 1 posting in Singapore, and they also indicate a child's starting subject levels. Posting Group 3 covers scores 4 to 20 and starts subjects at G3. Posting Group 2 covers 21 to 24, and Posting Group 1 covers 25 to 30, with AL7 or better in English and Maths needed at 26 to 30 (MOE, What are Posting Groups, 1 Oct 2026).

Because scores of 21 and 22 can be posted through Posting Group 3, many Posting Group 3 ranges in the table end at 21 or 22 rather than 20. A Posting Group 2 range can likewise start at 21.

IP is the Integrated Programme, a route in which students go on to a pre-university qualification without sitting the SEC at Secondary 4. At dual-track schools, which offer both the IP and the SEC, the two are separate school choices, and MOE gives affiliation priority only for the SEC (MOE, How posting works, 1 Oct 2026). Our IP schools list covers what each IP leads to.

Affiliated ranges apply to children from an affiliated primary school. MOE gives them priority only if they list the affiliated secondary school as their first choice and meet any extra criteria the school sets, and at least 20% of places in each Posting Group are kept for children without affiliation priority (MOE, How posting works, 1 Oct 2026).

(D), (M) and (P) appear at SAP schools and show the Higher Chinese grade of the first and last student posted: Distinction, Merit or Pass. If that student did not take or pass Higher Chinese, no grade is shown, which is why some SAP ranges carry a grade on one end only (SchoolFinder footnote). Our SAP schools guide explains the posting advantage.

An asterisk after 30 means the last student posted had a score better than 30, but the school still had places after posting, so MOE shows its COP as 30 because it could have taken an eligible student with that score (SchoolFinder footnote).

A dash means SchoolFinder shows no range for that group. At Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary, MOE's note says no non-affiliated students were posted to Posting Group 3 in the 2025 S1 Posting because all the places kept for them were taken through DSA-Sec. A blank cell means SchoolFinder lists nothing for that group at that school.

Integrated Programme cut-off points 2026: 16 schools

Sixteen Singapore secondary schools show an Integrated Programme range in SchoolFinder, with IP COPs from 6 to 9 in the latest figures. Eight show only an IP range. The other eight also show a Posting Group 3 range for the SEC track, listed in Table 2.

Table 1. Integrated Programme PSLE score ranges of 2025, used to post the PSLE 2025 cohort into Secondary 1 in 2026. Source: MOE SchoolFinder, read 30 Oct 2026, records dated 12 Jan 2026. Sorted by the first number, then school name.

Posting Group 3, 2 and 1 cut-off points for 131 schools

This is the full non-affiliated table for the 131 Singapore secondary schools with a Posting Group 3 range. The second number in each cell is the COP. Rows follow the first PG3 number, the score of the first student posted, then school name. That order is not a ranking, and MOE notes that COPs depend on cohort performance and choice patterns.

Table 2. Non-affiliated PSLE score ranges of 2025 by Posting Group, used to post the PSLE 2025 cohort into Secondary 1 in 2026. Source: MOE SchoolFinder, read 30 Oct 2026, records dated 12 Jan 2026. Sorted by the lower bound of the PG3 range, then school name. Kuo Chuan Presbyterian, with no PG3 range, is listed last.

Affiliated cut-off points at 26 schools

Twenty-six Singapore secondary schools show separate affiliated ranges for Posting Groups 3, 2 and 1. These numbers count only for a child from an affiliated primary school who puts the school as first choice. A child without affiliation should read Table 2 for the same school.

Table 3. Affiliated PSLE score ranges of 2025 by Posting Group. Source: MOE SchoolFinder, read 30 Oct 2026, records dated 12 Jan 2026. Sorted by school name. Nanyang Girls' High School's affiliated IP range is in Table 1.

Worked example: spreading 6 choices with a PSLE score of 12

This illustration shows how a Singapore parent might use the 2025 Posting Group 3 COPs for a child with a PSLE score of 12, no affiliation and no Higher Chinese. It is a method, not advice about any school. MOE asks families to include at least 2 to 3 schools where the child's score is better than the school's COP, and to submit choices with a mix of COPs (MOE, Shortlisting schools, 2 Oct 2026).

A score of 12 is "better than" a COP of 13 or higher, because a lower score wins. Reading the PG3 column of Table 2 with that in mind, the parent sorts the schools they actually like into three bands.

The counts are ours, from Table 2. A more cautious family could make choice 4 a third school with a margin.

Order still matters. Choice order is MOE's second tie-breaker after citizenship, so it decides between children with the same score and citizenship competing for a school's last places, before computerised balloting (MOE, How posting works, 1 Oct 2026). Rank the six in the order your child would really prefer them.

A child with a Pass, Merit or Distinction in Higher Chinese and a score of 14 or better has a posting advantage at SAP schools, and an affiliated child should check Table 3. MOE also notes that a child who just meets a school's COP will find most classmates came in with better scores, which some families weigh alongside travel time, subjects and CCAs.

Key dates for the PSLE 2026 cohort

The PSLE 2026 cohort in Singapore receives results on Tue 24 Nov or Wed 25 Nov 2026 (tentative), at 11am, according to SEAB and MOE. School choices open on the S1 Portal at 11.30am the same day and stay open for 7 calendar days, closing at 4.30pm on the last day (MOE, S1 posting, 14 Oct 2026).

These children start Secondary 1 in 2027 under Full Subject-Based Banding and will sit the SEC rather than the O-Level. PSLE 2026 to Secondary 1 in 2027 sets out what changes, and what to do after the PSLE 2026 results walks through results week.