Lakeside Primary School is a government primary school located in Jurong West, Singapore. It was formed by a merger of Yung An Primary School, Merlimau Primary School and Jurong Town Primary School, under the Education Ministry's Programme for Rebuilding and Improving Existing Schools.
Operations at Lakeside Primary School started on 1 January 2003. It was later officially opened on 23 July 2004 by Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister for Education.
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