A total of 251 Singaporean madrasah students sat for the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) this year, and 243 (96.8%) will be going on to secondary school.
Muis will continue to extend its PSLE Assistance Package to all full-time madrasahs. The package was introduced in 2007 and provides funding for supplemental education madrasah students in primary 5 and primary 6 for PSLE-related workshops and
supplementary learning activities. In 2018, Muis extended S$300 per student, or S$161,100, to 537 primary 5 and 6 madrasah students.
In Singapore, madrasahs provide basic Islamic education. They are intended to produce the religious elites to lead the community on religious matters. Every madrasah must meet a specific PSLE benchmark to qualify for its status as a school that offers primary education.
There are six full-time madrasahs and 27 part-time mosque madrasahs. Four of the full-time madrasahs have primary school students: Madrasah Irsyad Zuhri Al-Islamiah, Madrasah Al-Ma’arif Al-Islamiah, Madrasah Alsagoff Al-Arabiah and Madrasah Wak Tanjong Al-Islamiah.
The other two full-time madrasahs, Madrasah Al-Arabiah and Madrasah Aljunied, voluntarily stopped admission of primary 1 students from 2009 onwards, and do not have 2018 PSLE candidates. Madrasah Wak Tanjong will not have primary 6 students till 2020.