Pathlight officially opens Tampines campus, preparing for another in Punggol in 2032

Pathlight School, Singapore’s first special education school offering the national curriculum for those on the autism spectrum, officially opened its campus in Tampines on Nov 18.

- Shermaine Ang

Starting out with 41 students, it now serves more than 2,100 students across the Tampines campus and its other two campuses in Ang Mo Kio.

Pathlight School (Tampines), which opened its doors in January, can take in up to 800 students. It now has about 300.

The campus is meant to be a space that tests and refines ideas for Pathlight’s Ang Mo Kio campuses and future sites, said Ms Denise Phua, co-founder of Pathlight School and president of Autism Resource Centre (Singapore), or ARC. Its upcoming campus in the Punggol Digital District is slated to open in 2032.

Key features of the Tampines campus include a canteen run by an ARC social enterprise, Professor Brawn, where senior students and alumni can learn to operate food production technology.

It also has a studio apartment on campus for students to practise independent living skills such as personal hygiene.