It started classes with 450 students in the Secondary One and Two levels and 15 teachers on 3 January 1986, headed by the school's first principal, Ow Chiong Hoo.

[2] A school lecture hall was built and officially opened by Ong Chit Chung, Member of Parliament for Bukit Batok, on 6 November 1989.

[5] A student team led by Maziyan Abdullah participated in the 2008 World Media Masters on 28 March 2008, organised by IT Leisure and Education and supported by Creative Community Singapore, an initiative of the Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts.

The debate, organised by BVSS principal Ow Chiong Hoo, saw CHIJ emerging as winners for the first of the biannual competition.

[9] Singapore's Ambassador to the United States Chan Heng Chee also co-chaired a public forum titled "The Challenges of Democracy" on 12 November 1991.

In 1989, the school won Best Award and prize money of $3,000 in the 1989 National Mural Competition, an event held in conjunction with the Community Week '89 themed at social cohesion and racial harmony.

[13][14] A micromouse entry from Bukit View Secondary School, along with entries from Catholic Junior College and St. Joseph's Institution, was named overall winners for their shortest timings and intelligent maze-escaping strategies, in the fourth Singapore Inter-school Micromouse Competition held at Ngee Ann Polytechnic on 9 April 1994.

[16] The school's team also came in 2nd place in the Gears Of War (GOW) tournament at the Interschool eGaming Challenge organized and held at Funan DigitaLife Mall in March 2007.