SINGAPORE: Maris Stella High School (MSHS) and Woodlands Ring Secondary School (WRSS) will be rebuilt in the next few years, the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced on Monday (May 6).
From 2027 to 2029, the campuses of MSHS (Primary) and MSHS (Secondary) at 25 Mount Vernon Road will be rebuilt to “provide better facilities and enhance students’ educational experience”, MOE said in a press release.
During the rebuilding, MSHS (Primary) will move to the former MacPherson Primary School site at 2 Mattar Road, while MSHS (Secondary) will move to the former Bedok North Secondary School Site at 20 Jalan Damai.
According to Google Maps, the holding site for the primary school is a 2.7km drive from its permanent home, while the secondary school’s holding site is about a 4.6km drive away.
MSHS (Primary) will become coeducational and take in girls when it moves to its holding site in 2027, said MOE, adding that this was agreed by MSHS Ltd’s board of directors and the Marist Brothers Provincial Council.
The school will also look into increasing its Primary 1 intake in 2027.
“To accommodate this larger intake, MSHS (Primary) will also operate on a partial single-session at the holding site during the rebuilding of its permanent campus,” said MOE.
When its permanent campus is ready, tentatively in 2030, MSHS (Primary) will revert to operating on a single-session basis. MSHS (Secondary) will remain as an all-boys school “for now”, said MOE.
During the temporary relocation, the permanent site at 25 Mount Vernon Road will continue to be used to determine the home-school distance for the Primary 1 registration exercises.
The home-school distance is calculated based on the shortest distance from any point on the school’s land boundary to the applicant’s residential address.
With the rebuilding of the permanent campus, there may be changes to the school’s land boundary.
Parents can use the Singapore Land Authority’s OneMap SchoolQuery to check the home-school distance.
