Tampines · East zone
New launches near Poi Ching School
2 developments on the register within 2km. Distances are straight-line, which is the measure MOE uses.
What the distance actually buys
Home-to-school distance is a tie-breaker inside a registration phase, not a queue position across phases. A child living 300 metres away applying in Phase 2C is still behind a sibling of a current pupil at 1.9 kilometres in Phase 1. Living close improves your odds only against other applicants in the same phase.
Within a phase the order is: citizens inside 1km, then citizens between 1km and 2km, then citizens beyond 2km, then permanent residents in the same three bands. Balloting happens within whichever band the places run out in.
There is also a 30-month rule: the address used must be your registered residence for at least 30 months from the start of Primary 1 registration, or the place can be withdrawn. Buying a new launch that completes in three years does not give you the address today.
Poi Ching School, 21 Tampines Street 71, Singapore 529067. School website
School directory from data.gov.sg — General information of schools; geocoded via OneMap (SLA), generated 2026-08-07. Distances are computed on the SVY21 plane from the development’s site coordinate to the school’s registered postal address. Confirm any distance with MOE before it influences a purchase.
The developments in full
D18 · Outside Central
Pinery Residences
Bedok Reservoir Road, Tampines West
- Tenure
- 99-year leasehold
- Total units
- 588 units
- Expected completion
- Expected completion 2030
- Earliest published PSF
- from $2,340 psf
D18 · Outside Central
Rivelle Tampines
Tampines Street 95, Tampines West
- Tenure
- 99-year leasehold
- Total units
- 572 units
- Expected completion
- Expected completion 2030
- Earliest published PSF
- from $1,893 psf
Buying for a school place
The sequence matters more than the address. Completion date against registration year, the 30-month occupation requirement, and whether you can hold two properties through the gap — those decide whether this works, and they are worth getting on paper before you view anything.
Work through the timing