Raffles Institution

Raffles Institution

Raffles Institution is an independent boys' secondary school in Singapore. Founded in 1823 as Singapore Institution by Sir Stamford Raffles, it was consistently ranked as one of the top secondary schools in Singapore in the now-defunct official school rankings released by the Ministry of Education. RI was also recognised for excellence in both education processes and outcomes, and was awarded the pinnacle award of MOE's Master plan of Awards, the School Excellence Award. Raffles Institution offers the Integrated Programme, also known as the Raffles Programme , together with Raffles Girls' School and Raffles Junior College. It also offers an internal Gifted Education Programme, but the stream recently merged with the Special/ Express Stream into a single stream in 2007. In 2007, the current batch of Secondary 3 students has also been merged into a single stream. A new programme, the Raffles Academy, was also introduced.