The school received its first batch of students on 4 January 1968 and was officially declared open by Lim Guan Hoo, the Member of Parliament for Bukit Merah, on 16 May 1968.

In the same year, the new school building at Lengkok Bahru was officially declared open by Chay Wai Chuen, Member of Parliament for Tanjong Pagar GRC.

The following year, a new vision and mission statement was crafted for the school to better reflect its identity following the mergers.

The Express Course is a nationwide four-year programme that leads up to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level examinations.

[6] Students take English Language, Mathematics, Basic Mother Tongue and Computer Applications as compulsory subjects.