St. Joseph's Institution Junior Review — P1 Guide & 2026 Updates

St. Joseph's Institution Junior review and admission guide. P1 ballot data, CCAs, DSA programmes, NSG and SYF results, and nearby housing prices on School Matters SG.

About St. Joseph's Institution Junior

St. Joseph's Institution Junior is a boys' primary school in Singapore, in the South zone.

It offers 10 CCAs.

School overview

SJI Junior began as St Michael’s School on 11 January 1954 with 590 pupils. St Joseph’s Junior merged with it in 1965. Rebuilding led to temporary campuses before the school returned to Essex Road in January 1991; another upgrading cycle brought a return in 2002. The St Joseph’s Institution Junior name was adopted in 2007. Following PERI upgrading, the school returned to Essex Road in June 2013, with the indoor sports hall officially opened in 2014. These primary-school milestones are distinct from SJI’s 1852 founding and its later secondary SEC and IP programmes.

The English department lists EL Fest, myON reading, Little Red Dot, media literacy and debate enrichment, alongside LSP, RRP, SDR, Recess Reading and an Oral Booster with the PTA. Its brief list does not define every programme’s eligibility or frequency. Mathematics is more specific about stages: activity-based learning covers P1–5, Learning Support Mathematics is listed for P1–2, Koobits for P1–6 and Olympiad training for P4–6. These opportunities do not imply every pupil receives remedial support or competition coaching. The ALP page still says Coming Soon, so a detailed coding or maker curriculum should not be invented from its introductory tagline.

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Location and contact

3 Essex Road, Singapore 309331
Nearest MRT: Novena
Telephone: 62552700