Dulwich College (Singapore) opened in 2014 and is affiliated with the Dulwich College founded in London in 1619, though it is a separate school on a single campus in Bukit Batok, and one of several Dulwich Colleges across Asia. For a Taipei family relocating on an Employment Pass, eligibility is open, and a Taiwan passport is a foreign passport here. What draws Mandarin-literate families is the start of the school rather than its end: from age two, every early-years class has a Chinese co-teacher working alongside the class teacher through the day, so the youngest children live in both languages before formal Mandarin lessons begin.
The end of the school changed in 2026. Sixth Form was long IB Diploma only, which distinguished it from Tanglin. From August 2026 it offers four routes: the IB Diploma, the IB Career-related Programme, a new A Level route restricted to the sciences and mathematics, and a Dulwich high school diploma. That widens the choice without matching Tanglin's broad A Levels, and the new routes are newly launched rather than long proven. This guide sets out the eligibility rule, what the school does and does not publish about its fees, the Mandarin program in detail, and the honest reading of a strong set of results.
The Taipei families who ask us about Dulwich usually have two schools in mind, this one and Tanglin, and they are choosing between two versions of a British education in Singapore. Dulwich's case to them is the early years: a child who arrives at three or four keeps growing in Chinese every day rather than in a weekly lesson, and the Mandarin pathways run all the way to a bilingual IB Diploma. The question they bring is whether that holds up as the child gets older, what the new Sixth Form routes mean, and which characters the school teaches.
We work with relocating families remotely, the same way we teach families across roughly eight countries, and often before the move while the decision is open. What we see is the readiness the school assumes and assesses: age-appropriate English, since Dulwich runs no separate program for a child still learning it and expects one parent to be fluent, the mathematics and writing that its entry tests measure from Year 3, and, for a child arriving literate in traditional characters, the placement into the Mandarin pathways. Holding both languages steady across the move is the work we do.
The orienting facts, each drawn from the school's own materials and checked in September 2026. Figures are the school's own, in Singapore dollars.
Dulwich College (Singapore) is a British-curriculum school run by a privately held group, taking IGCSE before a Sixth Form that now offers the IB and a science-and-mathematics A Level route. It is an IB World School, fully accredited by the Council of International Schools and WASC, and an accredited member of the Council of British International Schools, which inspects to the UK's British Schools Overseas standard. It teaches the British curriculum, not an American or Advanced Placement one, and Mandarin runs through it from age two. Its tuition is published in a fee factsheet on its own site, which this guide points to rather than reproduces, for the reason set out below.
Dulwich publishes its per-year tuition in a 2026 to 2027 fee factsheet on its website. This guide does not reproduce those figures, because at the time of checking they could not be verified from the school's own document, and the restatements circulating on directory sites disagree with each other. A family should read the factsheet directly. What the school states on its fees page in plain text is set out below.
Two different sets of per-year figures circulate for this school, one apparently from the previous year and one labelled 2026 to 2027 and running higher, and neither could be checked against the school's own factsheet during this review. Printing either would risk repeating a stale or wrong number as the school's. The one-time fees below are the school's own, stated in text on its fees page.
| Item | Amount | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Application fee | S$1,500 | Per application, non-refundable and non-transferable |
| Enrollment fee, one time | S$4,000 | After a successful assessment. Non-refundable, except if the immigration authority refuses the Student's Pass or the Ministry refuses a citizen's exemption |
| Capital levy, one time | S$4,500 | Before admission, all new students. Non-refundable |
| Refundable debenture | None | No refundable deposit or bond |
| Card payment surcharge | 3 percent | Non-refundable. Cash not accepted |
| Boarding, Years 12 to 13 | S$43,200 per year, the 2025 to 2026 figure | Through a partner residence, for families outside Singapore. Plus a boarding application fee and a deposit to the residence |
| Lunch, bus, uniform, trips | Charged separately | Through the school's providers |
Source: the school's fees page. Checked September 2026. The three one-time fees together come to S$10,000 for a new student before tuition, as Harland's arithmetic on the school's stated figures.
| Ages served | 2 to 18, Toddler to Year 13, on one campus |
|---|---|
| Enrollment | 2,600 students from more than 50 nationalities, the school's own figure |
| Curriculum | Enhanced English National Curriculum, IGCSE over Years 9 to 11, then Sixth Form. British, not AP |
| Sixth Form routes | IB Diploma. IB Career-related Programme. A Level in biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics from August 2026. A Dulwich high school diploma |
| Mandarin | Dual-language early years from age two. Daily Mandarin streamed by ability from age four. Three pathways from native to beginner, to IB Chinese and a bilingual diploma |
| Chinese, character variant | Not published by the school. Confirm with admissions |
| New Sixth Form entry | Year 12, with IGCSE results at grade B or above and a recommendation. Year 13 is not an entry point |
| Accreditation | IB World School for the Diploma and Career-related programs. Council of International Schools and WASC, fully accredited. Council of British International Schools, accredited member. FOBISIA member |
| Admissions | Rolling, year-round. A waiting list by date of application with stated priority groups. Mid-year entry possible |
| English support | No separate program. English required at entry, and one parent must be fluent |
| Eligibility | Foreign passport and FIN. Citizens, including dual nationals, in limited cases with an MOE exemption first |
| Class of 2026 IB | 145 candidates. Average 37.5 on the results page and 37.7 on the homepage. Pass rate 99.3 percent. Four scores of 45. 29 bilingual diplomas |
Where a row reads "not published," the fact does not appear on any page the school publishes. Where the school's own pages give two figures, both are shown rather than merged.
The Dulwich name is old and the Singapore school is young, and a family should hold both facts at once, along with a third the school does not lead with: who owns it.
Dulwich College was founded in London in 1619 by the actor Edward Alleyn, and the Singapore school, opened in August 2014 as the seventh in the Dulwich family, draws on that heritage by affiliation rather than identity. The London school's Deputy Master inspects the Singapore college annually, and its house names, Shackleton among them, honor Dulwich alumni. But it is a separate school, run by Dulwich College (Singapore) Pte Ltd as part of Education in Motion, a privately held group founded in 2003 with headquarters in Singapore and Shanghai that operates the Dulwich Colleges across Asia. The school does not describe itself as non-profit, and a family for whom governance matters should read it as a for-profit institution within a group.
What the affiliation buys is real. Dulwich Singapore holds full accreditation from both the Council of International Schools and WASC, is an accredited member of the Council of British International Schools, which inspects to the UK government's standard for British schools abroad, and is an IB World School for the Diploma and Career-related programs. Its ethos is "Live Worldwise," the aim of raising global citizens who make informed choices and take inspired action, and its four houses, Shackleton, Mandela, Earhart, and Lee, are named for an explorer, a statesman, an aviator, and a pioneering Singaporean doctor. Its first head, Nick Magnus, led it from before opening until 2025. David Ingram, who founded the Shanghai Puxi college, took over that August.
Dulwich follows the English National Curriculum through IGCSE, then a Sixth Form that changed shape in 2026. Running through all of it, from the toddler room to the IB, is a Mandarin program more thoroughgoing than most British schools offer.
The lower school is an enhanced English National Curriculum through DUCKS, the early years and infant school for ages two to seven, and the Junior School to Year 6. The Senior School takes IGCSE over three years, Years 9 to 11 by the school's account, with Cambridge, Edexcel, and OxfordAQA boards. Sixth Form was for years the IB Diploma alone, with the IB Career-related Programme alongside. From August 2026 the school adds an A Level route in biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics, with further mathematics as an option, and a Dulwich high school diploma. That is a real widening, but a narrow one: a student who wants A Levels in history, economics, or the arts will not find them here, and should compare Tanglin, whose A Levels run across the curriculum. The new routes are also new. They were marked as coming soon on the school's own pages at the time of checking, so a family choosing them is choosing a launch year. It is a British school throughout, not an American or Advanced Placement one, so a family from an AP school in Taipei, or weighing Singapore American School, is choosing a different system.
Mandarin is where Dulwich stands out among Singapore's British schools. In DUCKS, from age two, a Chinese co-teacher works in every class alongside the class teacher through the whole day, in stories, play, and daily interaction, so the youngest children hear and use both languages before they are taught either formally. From Reception to Year 2 a daily Mandarin lesson of up to an hour is added, and from age four the daily classes are streamed by ability. Three pathways then run through the school: Mandarin A for native speakers, Mandarin B as a second language, and Mandarin C as a foreign language, the last taught through the school's own "Wo Hui" method, which separates speaking and listening from reading and writing and introduces characters by simplicity and frequency. At IB the school offers Chinese A literature, Chinese A language and literature, and Chinese B, a bilingual diploma is available, and the school reports that 62 percent of its students achieve top scores in IB Mandarin. It is a stronger program than Tanglin's Mandarin-as-a-subject, though not the half-day immersion of Canadian International School. The one thing the school does not say is whether it teaches simplified or traditional characters. Its parent group began in Shanghai, which points to simplified, and a family with a child literate in traditional characters should confirm before placing weight on the pathways.
Dulwich publishes its IB and IGCSE results in full and they are strong. It publishes them twice, and the two figures for the same cohort differ slightly, which this guide shows rather than resolves.
For the class of 2026 the school reports 145 IB candidates, a pass rate of 99.3 percent against a global average in the low thirties, four perfect scores of 45, and 40 percent of students scoring 40 points or more, up from 30 percent the year before. Twenty-nine students earned the bilingual diploma. The average score appears as 37.5 on the school's academic results page and as 37.7 on its homepage for the same cohort. Both are the school's own figures, the difference is small, and the average is best read as about 37.5 to 37.7, not either figure alone. At IGCSE in 2025, 178 Year 11 students achieved a 100 percent pass rate, with 74 percent of grades at A* or A and 52 percent at A*.
On destinations, the school reports for a recent cohort of 160, of whom 19 entered National Service, four Oxbridge offers, five to medical school, and places including eight at Imperial, ten at the London School of Economics, twenty-one at King's College London, and ten at University College London, with a spread across the United States, Asia, and Europe. Those are offers and places for one cohort, not a per-student record across years, and the school frames its results as reflecting academic excellence and personal growth together. Read them as evidence of a school whose IB cohort performs well above the global norm, published transparently, with the caveat that the new A Level and diploma routes have no results yet because they have only just begun.
Admissions are rolling and accepted through the year. A family applies online, submits transcripts, records, teacher recommendations, and vaccination records, and pays the application fee to join the candidate list, and an assessment follows no more than twelve months before the intended start. The assessment fits the age: a face-to-face session and online interview in the early years, a cognitive test and a half-hour writing task in Years 3 to 6, a cognitive test and writing task in Years 7 to 11, and, for Year 12, IGCSE results at grade B or above with a recommendation. The school requires English proficiency sufficient for the curriculum and one English-fluent parent, does not release assessment results, and allows a re-sit after six to twelve months at the head's discretion. Children with additional educational needs are considered case by case, and the school states it admits only those for whom it can provide adequate support.
Where a year group is full, an eligible child joins a waiting list ordered by application date that rolls over annually, and the school states its priorities plainly: children of full-time faculty, children transferring from another Dulwich College, siblings of current students with a completed application, and children of alumni of the Dulwich schools. The school also sells a limited number of guaranteed placement rights, a financial contribution that secures priority on the waiting list in any year group, with proceeds funding its scholarship program. That is stated here as the school states it. Mid-year entry is possible where a place opens, and year placement is by age at the start of September. The child's pass must be in hand before enrollment completes, and the school applies for the Student's Pass on the family's behalf.
Harland is not a school and does not replace Dulwich. We are a 1-on-1 tutoring academy, and we work with relocating families remotely, often before the move, in the three places the schooling decision creates real work for a family: the entry assessment, the two-language transition, and the Sixth Form years.
A child needs a foreign passport and a valid FIN, obtained through a Dependant's Pass or a Student's Pass the school applies for, before attending. A Taiwan passport is a foreign passport for this, so a family on an Employment Pass has open access. Singapore citizens, including dual nationals, may apply only in limited cases and need a Ministry of Education exemption before the school will admit them.
No. It is affiliated with the founding school in London, which dates from 1619, and draws on its heritage, but it is a separate school in Singapore, opened in 2014 and run by the Education in Motion group. It is also distinct from the other Dulwich Colleges in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Zhuhai, Seoul, and Yangon.
From August 2026, both, with a difference. Sixth Form offers the IB Diploma, the IB Career-related Programme, a new A Level route limited to science and mathematics subjects, and a Dulwich high school diploma. A family wanting A Levels across the humanities or arts should compare Tanglin Trust School, whose A Levels are broad.
Strong. The early years run a dual-language English and Mandarin program with a Chinese co-teacher in every class from age two, daily Mandarin is streamed by ability from age four, and three pathways run from native to beginner through to IB Chinese and a bilingual diploma, 29 of which were awarded in 2026. The school does not state whether it teaches simplified or traditional characters, so a Taiwan family should confirm directly.
The school publishes its tuition in a fee factsheet on its website, and this guide does not reproduce the per-year figures because they could not be verified from the school's own document at the time of checking. The one-time fees the school states are an application fee of S$1,500, an enrollment fee of S$4,000, and a capital levy of S$4,500, all in Singapore dollars and non-refundable. There is no refundable debenture.
Our Student Coordinator speaks with relocating families regularly, often before the move, and can help you think through eligibility, the Dulwich and Tanglin comparison, the Mandarin pathways, and how to prepare a child for the entry assessment. We work with families remotely. We start by listening.