Singapore’s Maris Stella High School (MSHS) and Woodlands Ring Secondary School (WRSS) are slated for reconstruction in the coming years, as per the Ministry of Education (MOE) announcement on Monday (May 6).
Maris Stella High School (Primary) and Maris Stella High School (Secondary) campuses at 25 Mount Vernon Road will undergo reconstruction from 2027 to 2029, aiming to “provide better facilities and enhance students’ educational experience,” as stated in an MOE press release.
Maris Stella High School (Primary) will temporarily relocate to the former MacPherson Primary School site at 2 Mattar Road, while Maris Stella High School (Secondary) will move to the former Bedok North Secondary School Site at 20 Jalan Damai during the rebuilding period. Maris Stella High School (Primary) will be relocated to a holding site at 2 Mattar Road, approximately 2.7km away from its permanent location, while Maris Stella High School (Secondary) will move to a holding site at 20 Jalan Damai, which is approximately 4.6km from its original campus, as per Google Maps data.
MSHS (Primary) will become coeducational and take in girls when it moves to its holding site in 2027. MOE said 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.
