Brunswick Secondary has an active performing arts program, involved in many different areas including dance, drama and instrumental music.

In addition to its core curricular subjects, Brunswick Secondary offers a rich extra-curricular program, including: dance, debating, drama, chess, circus, table tennis, Kendo, and creative writing.

Brunswick Secondary is a participant in the Victorian Young Leaders to China (VYLC) Program and offers positions to Year 9 students learning Chinese.

Combining language and cultural learning with personal development and leadership skills, the program focuses on one of Australia’s main trading partners, China.

A new Year 9 Learning Centre was completed in early 2007 with new computers and teaching rooms with electronic whiteboards, which have since been installed in all classrooms throughout the school.

In 2018, the school was granted 10 million for renovation, kickstarting the building of a new food block which housed the new cafeteria, canteen and kitchens.

In the 2000s, the school saw a steady improvement in its results in many areas including VCE scores, and as such now attracts students from well beyond its neighbourhood zone.

In the absence of a Rock Eisteddfod Challenge in 2010, the Victorian Government sponsored a state-wide replacement, Vic Moves, in which Brunswick placed first.

Brunswick Secondary College won the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge 2007 Premier Grand Final with their performance of 'Solstice'.

The school set up a safety plan for the student, but the father, who could have pressed charges, decided not to, so as to not further traumatise his son.

Students were reminded that Nazi imagery was not tolerated at Brunswick Secondary College and that "such displays cause harm to members of our community, and [it] is unacceptable".