Central · South zone
New launches near St. Margaret's School (primary)
10 developments on the register within 2km, 2 of them inside 1km. 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must be your registered residence for at least 30 months from the start of Primary 1 registration, or the place can be withdrawn.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.
St. Margaret's School (primary), 136 Sophia Road, Singapore 228197. 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
D07 · Core Central
Concourse Skyline
Beach Road, Nicoll Highway
- Tenure
- 99-year leasehold
- Total units
- 360 units
- Expected completion
- Expected completion 2014 — completed stock
D07 · Core Central
Midtown Bay
Beach Road, Bugis
- Tenure
- 99-year leasehold
- Total units
- 219 units
- Expected completion
- Expected completion 2023 — completed stock
D09 · Core Central
Sophia Regency
Sophia Road, Mount Sophia
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Total units
- 38 units
- Expected completion
- Expected completion 2024 — completed stock
D06 · Core Central
CanningHill Piers
Clarke Quay, Singapore River
- Tenure
- 99-year leasehold
- Total units
- 696 units
- Expected completion
- Expected completion 2026
D09 · Core Central
The Collective at One Sophia
Sophia Road, Dhoby Ghaut
- Tenure
- 99-year leasehold
- Total units
- 367 units
- Expected completion
- Expected completion 2028
D09 · Core Central
The Robertson Opus
Unity Street, Robertson Quay
- Tenure
- 999-year leasehold
- Total units
- 348 units
- Expected completion
- Expected completion 2028
D01 · Core Central
Union Square Residences
Havelock Road, Clarke Quay
- Tenure
- 99-year leasehold
- Total units
- 366 units
- Expected completion
- Expected completion 2029
D03 · Rest of Central
Promenade Peak
Zion Road, River Valley fringe
- Tenure
- 99-year leasehold
- Total units
- 596 units
- Expected completion
- Expected completion 2029
- Earliest published PSF
- from $2,982 psf
D09 · Core Central
River Modern
River Valley Green
- Tenure
- 99-year leasehold
- Total units
- 455 units
- Expected completion
- Expected completion 2030
- Earliest published PSF
- from $2,877 psf
D09 · Core Central
River Green
River Valley Green
- Tenure
- 99-year leasehold
- Total units
- 524 units
- Expected completion
- Expected completion 2030
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