The school follows the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education syllabus and has classes from pre-nursery up to the tenth grade.

Baldwin Opportunity School is an institution in the field of Special Education, founded by Miss Anne Tillou, an American missionary, in 1964.

The school was established by the Methodist Episcopal Church, with a monetary grant from John Baldwin in Ohio, United States.

The school followed an ISC Board (11th and 12th Grade) for five years from 1997 to 2002, but this was discontinued due to the lack of a student body and was replaced by a PUC college.

In 2010, the Baldwin choir came in second place in the Jingle Jam conducted by Radio Indigo out of 500 schools.

The choir of Baldwins has consistently been winning in the annual Basel Mission conducted at the Bangalore Town Hall.

The Commencement exercises are carried out every year in January when the graduating students of class X walk up the aisle in traditional white sarees.

The mantle of responsibility (school banner) is handed over to their juniors and then the Principal and the guests invite them to participate in a solemn, meaningful candle lighting ceremony, as they take the oath to carry their light, ignited by their Alma Mater, into the dark world to shine and reach out to many in whatever situation they are placed in life.

X), in the Richmond Town Methodist Church at which powerful spiritual leaders remind them of values learnt, advise the students and invoke God's blessing on them before they step out into the world, even as they leave the portals of their Alma Mater.

Each house has been named after former Principals, benefactors and friends of the school, who contributed generously to its growth in the early years.