Search "coding classes for kids Singapore" and the first page hands you the same twenty names it handed you in 2023. We checked all of them against the schools' own websites on 28 August 2026, and three of the most-recommended are gone: First Code Academy's Singapore entity is struck off in ACRA and its domain now redirects to a parking lander; Saturday Kids' domain does the same and its facebook.com/saturdaykids handle has been released and reclaimed by an unrelated account; and SG Code Campus, ranked in almost every 2026 listicle as a top MOE-registered kids' school, now describes itself on its own homepage as an enterprise "applied-AI engineering and enablement company" serving government and academia. Of the eight schools still running, exactly one publishes a full price list: Nullspace Robotics, where a 10-hour certificate block is $520, the September holiday camps are $550 for 10 hours or $137.50 for a single 2.5-hour AI workshop, and a trial is $55 for ages 5-6 or $110 for ages 7 and up. Everyone else quotes on enquiry, so the numbers other roundups print for them are copies of copies. What you can compare without asking anyone is the trial: free at The Lab SG and Empire AI, $57 at Code Ninja, $55 to $110 at Nullspace. And the addresses in those roundups are wrong too: LCCL is at Forum Office Tower on Orchard Road, not Tanglin Shopping Centre; The Lab SG runs Kinex, Goldhill Plaza, Woods Square and Buangkok Square, not Wisteria and Centrepoint; Kodecoon has seven Singapore campuses, not five; and Lyza has a second centre in Tampines that nobody lists.
Singapore has no shortage of kids' coding schools. It has a serious shortage of ones that will tell you the price.
> Quick view: only Nullspace publishes a full rate card (10hr blocks $520, Sept camps $137.50-$550). Everyone else quotes on enquiry, so compare the trial instead: free at The Lab SG and Empire AI, $57 at Code Ninja, $55-$110 at Nullspace.
Established in 2008 and the clearest-priced technology school in Singapore, which on this list is not a small thing. Weekly terms: STEM Little Explorer for ages 5-6 is one hour a session at $520 for a 10-week term; STEM Explorer for ages 7-8 is two hours a session at $1,000 a term; and the certificate tracks for ages 9-16 (Robotics with LEGO SPIKE Prime, Inventor with Arduino, Data Analyst with Python) are billed at $520 per 10 hours. September holiday programmes are already dated and priced: STEM Explorer and the BuildUp 3D Printing camp both run 7-11 September 2026 at $550 for 10 hours, the Generative AI Creator Series for ages 9-14 is $137.50 for a 2.5-hour workshop on 31 August and 9-10 September, and a SpeakUp portfolio-and-interview workshop for ages 10-12 runs 1 September at $137.50, at Kallang Wave Mall only. Trials are $55 for ages 5-6 (one hour) and $110 for ages 7 and up (two hours), so a trial here is a real lesson you pay for rather than a sales session. Credentials worth checking rather than taking on trust: Nullspace was the appointed vendor for MOE Gifted Education Branch's Computer Enrichment Programme across all nine GEP primary schools from 2018 to 2025, it holds the STEM.org Accredited Educational Experience trustmark, and it organises the annual IDE Series competition, which drew over 2,200 participants in 2025. Average instructor-to-student ratio is 1:5. Three centres: Rochester Mall in Buona Vista, Kallang Wave Mall and SAFRA Tampines. Best for: parents who want to compare a real number against a real number before committing, and children who want to build something physical rather than only write code.
Parent Referral Scheme pays $50 cashback when a referred child enrols. September holiday programmes are open now: $137.50 for a 2.5-hour Generative AI workshop, or $550 for a 10-hour camp running 7-11 September 2026.
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The academically structured option, and the one most often chosen by parents thinking several years ahead rather than one term ahead. Coding Lab is a MOE-registered enrichment centre founded by an MIT alumnus, and its curriculum runs as a genuine ladder rather than a menu: Junior Coders for preschoolers, then Scratch 1 and Scratch 2 for lower primary, App Inventor 1 and 2 and Python Junior 1 and 2 for upper primary, and Java, C++, web development and computer science electives for secondary and JC students. At the top of that ladder sits a National Olympiad in Informatics preparation track, which matters if your child is aiming at Direct School Admission or at discretionary admission consideration for NUS Computer Science later. There are also two-hour thematic workshops banded by age (5-6, 7-9, 10-12 and 13-18) if you want something shorter than a full term. Three centres: Bukit Timah at 9 King Albert Park (KAP Mall) #02-21, Marine Parade at Parkway Parade, and Tampines at Tampines Changkat Community Club. One caveat we will state plainly: Coding Lab publishes no fees anywhere on its site, and its PSLE Marking Week camp page was still advertising October 2025 dates when we checked on 28 August 2026, so ask for current dates as well as current prices. Best for: a child who is likely to stay in coding for years, and parents who want a syllabus with a named endpoint.
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The widest physical network on this list by some distance, and the reason it belongs high up: for a weekly class over several years, a 15-minute journey beats a 50-minute one more reliably than any curriculum difference. Seven Singapore campuses, all verified from Kodecoon's own contact page on 28 August 2026: SingPost Centre HQ at 10 Eunos Road 8 #03-01/03, Our Tampines Hub at 1 Tampines Walk #B1-17/18, West Coast Plaza at 154 West Coast Road #01-74, Novena Regency at 275 Thomson Road #01-13, Punggol Digital District at 92 Punggol Way (Tower 92) #01-165/166, Junction 10 at 1 Woodlands Road #02-09, and Lentor Modern at 1 Lentor Central #B1-03. Note that several roundups still list only five, and that Kodecoon also runs campuses in Jakarta and Johor, so check you are reading the Singapore page. Programmes start at age 4 and cover block-based Scratch, mobile app development, JavaScript and Python, LEGO SPIKE Prime robotics, and week-long Roblox, Minecraft and virtual reality holiday bootcamps, plus a Direct School Admission preparation class and a Maker Technopreneurship programme. Placement is not self-selected: every student sits a logical reasoning assessment first and the school assigns the level. Competition record is current rather than historical, which is a useful signal on a page full of dated credentials: Kodecoon students took 23 medals at the Hwa Chong Info-communications Challenge in July 2026. Fees are on enquiry. Best for: heartland families, and children who need a level assigned to them rather than guessed at.
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The lowest-friction way to find out whether your child actually enjoys this, because the trial costs nothing and the school does not ask for a term commitment to sit it. Programmes are banded tightly by age: a Kinder programme for ages 5-6, a Junior programme for 7-9, a Coder programme for 10-14, and an advanced coding and Unity game development track for 14 and up. The subject mix is broader than most centres of this size, spanning block coding, Python and competitive programming, LEGO robotics, machine learning and AI project work, plus a Direct School Admission supplement programme and holiday programmes. It also runs school and corporate sessions, which is usually a sign the curriculum has survived contact with a syllabus rather than only with parents. On locations, be careful with what you read elsewhere: several 2026 roundups list The Lab SG at Wisteria Mall and The Centrepoint. Its own site on 28 August 2026 lists four centres, and those are not among them: Kinex Mall in Tanjong Katong, Goldhill Plaza in Novena, Woods Square in Woodlands and Buangkok Square Mall. Fees are on enquiry. Best for: a first trial before you spend anything, and for a child who might want to end up building games in Unity rather than sitting an olympiad.
Free trial class, no commitment required, bookable directly on the site for any of the four centres.
Rebranded from Empire Code to Empire AI during 2026, which is worth knowing because most directories still file it under the old name and a few still link the old logo. The age span is the widest here, from 4 to 19, split into preschool (4-6), lower primary (7-9), upper primary (10-12) and teens (13-16) with a further track above that. The positioning has moved with the name: the school now describes itself as teaching the technology behind AI rather than coding in the abstract, alongside its coding and robotics classes, holiday camps and a Direct School Admission programme. The practical reason it earns a place on this list right now is timing. Both the September and October 2026 holiday camps were open for booking when we checked on 28 August 2026, which is not true of every school here, and matters if you are trying to cover the 5-13 September school break and the PSLE marking-week closures that follow it. A free trial is bookable directly. Two campuses: the Novena headquarters and River Valley on Mohamed Sultan Road. Fees are on enquiry. Best for: preschoolers at one end and JC-age teenagers at the other, and for anyone who has left holiday-camp booking late.
Free trial class, plus September and October 2026 holiday camps now open for booking.
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The one to look at if your objection to enrichment is the class size or the rigidity, rather than the price. Classes are capped at six students to one teacher, which is meaningfully smaller than a typical enrichment room, and there are no tests: progress is tracked through a Code Ninja Passport system with weekly written updates to parents, and the learning path is set to the individual child's ability rather than to a cohort. Languages are Scratch and Python, and the age range runs from Primary 3 to pre-university, with younger children considered case by case. The billing model is the genuinely different part. Instead of buying a term, you buy passes: 4 passes to be used within 6 weeks, 5 within 8 weeks, 10 within 4 months or 20 within 6 months, so a family that travels or has an exam season can compress or spread lessons without forfeiting them. Read the expiry windows carefully, because the pass is only good value if you actually use it inside the window. A trial class is $57, stated on the school's own site rather than inferred. Pass prices are listed on its pricing page. One centre, at 22 Havelock Road #01-689. Lessons are available on-premise or online. Best for: a child who disappears in a big class, and families whose weekends are not the same shape every month.
Trial class $57, stated on Code Ninja's own site. Lessons are then bought as flexible passes (4, 5, 10 or 20) rather than a fixed term.
Founded by a senior technology leader who previously worked at Meta, Amazon and in investment banking, and built around a specific idea: that the output of a coding course should be a portfolio, not a certificate. Every student works on Lyza CodeLab, the school's own student platform, which tracks achievements and accumulates the child's projects into a personal portfolio intended to be usable later for Direct School Admission applications and internships. The structure is a 20-hour foundation pathway, then progression through four age bands: Discoverers for ages 5-6, Young Coders for 7-9, Coders and Architects for 10-12, and Explorers and Challengers for 13-17, moving from block-based coding and game creation into Python, data structures, algorithms and object-oriented programming. AI runs through the curriculum rather than sitting beside it as a separate module. A one-hour trial class is bookable online. On location, note that the roundups list Orchard only. Lyza's own contact page lists two centres: Far East Shopping Centre at 545 Orchard Road #16-07A, and Tampines. The Orchard centre opens Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 9am to 6pm and weekends 9am to 6pm, and is closed on Thursdays and public holidays, which is an unusual pattern worth checking against your own week. Fees are on enquiry. Best for: an older child working towards DSA who needs evidence, not just attendance.
One-hour trial class, bookable online at either centre.
The most useful pick for a family enrolling more than one child, because it is the only school here that publishes the sibling discount as a number rather than inviting you to ask. Second sibling is 10% off and third and subsequent siblings are 15% off, stated on LCCL's own site. Four programmes cover ages 5 to 18 as a continuous progression: Early Creators for 5-7, Kid Coders for 8-11, Teen Coders for 12-15 and Young Adults for 16-18, focused on computational thinking rather than on a single language, with holiday programmes including Game Programming bootcamps and Minecraft coding. On the address, most 2026 roundups place LCCL at Tanglin Shopping Centre. Its own site gives Forum Office Tower, 583 Orchard Road #13-01, Singapore 238884, so check before you make the trip. Opening hours are also worth noting, because they are built around after-school and weekend traffic rather than office hours: weekdays 1pm to 6pm, Saturdays 9am to 7pm, Sundays 9am to 5pm, closed on public holidays. Contact is +65 6817 2957. Fees themselves are on enquiry, and no trial price is published. Best for: two or three siblings enrolling together, where a 10% and 15% discount compounds across years rather than across one term.
Sibling discount published as a rate, not on request: 10% off the second child, 15% off the third and beyond.
| School | Singapore campuses | Ages | Trial class | Published fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nullspace Robotics | 3 (Rochester Mall, Kallang Wave Mall, SAFRA Tampines) | 5-16 | $55 (ages 5-6) / $110 (ages 7+) | Full rate card: $520 per 10hr block; terms $520-$1,000; Sept camps $137.50-$550 |
| Coding Lab | 3 (KAP Mall, Parkway Parade, Tampines Changkat CC) | 5-18 | Not published | On enquiry |
| Kodecoon Academy | 7 (SingPost HQ, Our Tampines Hub, West Coast Plaza, Novena Regency, Punggol Digital District, Junction 10, Lentor Modern) | 4+ | Recommendation session (placement test) first | On enquiry |
| The Lab SG | 4 (Kinex Mall, Goldhill Plaza, Woods Square, Buangkok Square Mall) | 5-14+ | Free, no commitment | On enquiry |
| Empire AI (Empire Code) | 2 (Novena HQ, River Valley) | 4-19 | Free | On enquiry; Sept and Oct camps open |
| Code Ninja Singapore | 1 (22 Havelock Road) | P3 to pre-university | $57 | Pass packs of 4, 5, 10 or 20 (prices on the pass page) |
| Lyza Education | 2 (Far East Shopping Centre Orchard, Tampines) | 5-17 | 1-hour trial, bookable online | On enquiry; 20-hour foundation pathway |
| LCCL Coding Academy | 1 (Forum Office Tower, 583 Orchard Road) | 5-18 | Not published | On enquiry; 10% off 2nd sibling, 15% off 3rd+ |
This is the part that matters most, because enrolling from a stale list wastes a term. All three were checked on 28 August 2026.
Every school on this list was opened directly: homepage, contact page, course pages and, where one exists, the fee page. Nothing here was copied from a directory, and where a directory disagreed with a school's own site we went with the school. That is how the address and campus-count corrections above surfaced. It is also why the fee column is mostly empty. Seven of the eight schools publish no rate card at all, so any specific figure you see attached to them elsewhere is someone's recollection of a quote, often years old and re-copied since. We would rather print "on enquiry" than print a number we cannot stand behind.
The prices we do print, for Nullspace, came off its own weekly-classes and school-holiday pages on 28 August 2026.
Almost nobody will tell you before you enquire, which is the honest answer and the useful one. Of the eight schools we checked on 28 August 2026, exactly one publishes a full rate card. Nullspace Robotics charges $520 for a 10-hour certificate block, which works out to $52 an hour; $520 for a 10-week term of one-hour classes for ages 5-6; $1,000 for a 10-week term of two-hour classes for ages 7-8; $550 for a 10-hour September holiday camp; and $137.50 for a single 2.5-hour Generative AI workshop. Code Ninja publishes a $57 trial and sells passes in blocks of 4, 5, 10 and 20 with prices on its pass page. Every other school on this list, including Coding Lab, Kodecoon, The Lab SG, Empire AI, Lyza and LCCL, quotes on enquiry only. That means the specific dollar figures you see attached to those names in other 2026 roundups, such as "S$400-500 per term" or "S$320-420 per month", are not published prices; they are recollections of past quotes that have been re-copied between listicles for years. Ask each school for its fee expressed per hour, and compare that against Nullspace's $52 an hour.
Neither can be reached through the channels they previously published, and we would not enrol with either on the strength of a 2026 listicle. First Code Academy is the clearer case: the Singapore entity, First Code Academy Pte. Ltd. (UEN 201507338E, incorporated 19 March 2015), shows as struck off in the business registry, and firstcodeacademy.com now redirects to a domain-parking lander rather than a website. For Saturday Kids, saturdaykids.com redirects to the same kind of lander, and the facebook.com/saturdaykids vanity URL has been released and is now held by an unrelated personal account, which is what happens when a page is deleted and the handle is freed. We are stating what we found rather than announcing a closure: no official statement was issued by either school, and we could reach neither. What we can say plainly is that both are still ranked in current guides, including guides updated for 2026, and that a parent following those guides would be contacting a dead domain. If you are looking at a roundup that recommends either school, that roundup has not been checked this year.
The Lab SG and Empire AI both offer a free trial class that can be booked directly on their websites, and The Lab SG states explicitly that no commitment is required to sit it. Lyza Education offers a one-hour trial class bookable online without publishing a price for it, so ask when you book. Kodecoon does not run a conventional trial: every prospective student first sits a logical reasoning assessment and the school then assigns a level, so what you book is a recommendation session rather than a sample lesson. Two schools charge for the trial, and it is worth understanding why before you rule them out. Code Ninja charges $57. Nullspace charges $55 for ages 5-6 and $110 for ages 7 and up, but the $110 buys a full two-hour lesson at the school's normal length, so you are paying for a real class rather than a shortened taster. Coding Lab and LCCL publish no trial arrangement at all, so you would need to enquire. If your goal is simply to find out whether your child enjoys this before spending anything, start with The Lab SG or Empire AI.
They can, but only if what the child ends up with is evidence rather than attendance, and the schools on this list differ sharply on that point. Direct School Admission panels respond to demonstrable work and competition results, not to a certificate of completion. Four schools here are structured around that. Coding Lab runs a National Olympiad in Informatics preparation track at the top of its ladder and publishes student results and awards. Nullspace organises the annual IDE Series competition, which drew over 2,200 participants in 2025, and its students compete in FIRST LEGO League. Kodecoon runs an explicit DSA preparation class and its students took 23 medals at the Hwa Chong Info-communications Challenge in July 2026, which is a current result rather than a historical one. Lyza builds every student a portfolio on its own CodeLab platform, specifically intended for DSA applications and internships later. The Lab SG and Empire AI both run DSA-oriented programmes as well. If DSA is the actual goal, ask the school what a student leaves with after two years, and treat "a certificate" as the wrong answer.
The schools themselves start between ages 4 and 7, and the split tells you something useful about what is actually being taught. Kodecoon and Empire AI both take children from age 4, and Nullspace, Coding Lab, The Lab SG, Lyza and LCCL all start at 5. At that age nothing resembling text code is involved: Nullspace's STEM Little Explorer for ages 5-6 is LEGO Technic and engineering in one-hour sessions, and the equivalent classes elsewhere are block-based sequencing and physical building. Real block coding with Scratch usually begins around ages 7 to 8, text-based languages such as Python around 10 to 12, and Java, C++, data structures and algorithms from about 13. Code Ninja is the outlier and deliberately so, starting at Primary 3 and taking younger children only case by case. Two practical notes. First, a five-year-old in a two-hour class is usually a mistake; check the session length, not only the age band. Second, starting later costs less than parents fear, because a 10-year-old moves through the block-coding stage in a fraction of the time a six-year-old takes.
