Xinghua Primary School (abbreviation: XPS) is a government, co-educational primary school of the Ministry of Education of Singapore and offers education from Primary 1 to Primary 6, leading to the Primary School Leaving Examination. Founded in 1930 as Sing Hua Public School, the school was located in Lim Tua Tow Road, in the north-eastern Singapore before being relocated to its current campus at Hougang Avenue 1.
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