[1] In 2002, the Dunman Life Sciences Training and Research Centre was launched by National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan.

Dunman Secondary School received the prestigious Public Service Award for Organisation Excellence from SPRING, Singapore in 2006.

It also received the East Zone and National Thinking Culture Award valid for two years from 2007.

[1] The school motto "Pengetahuan Suloh Hidup" is in Malay and it means "Knowledge: The torch of life".

Despite uproar from former students,[5] the school crest was simplified after a review and rebranding exercise in 2007[6] to its current form.

[7] This organisation was later deregistered from Singapore Registry of Societies to begin of a more inclusive restructure, that merges the newer Dunman Youth Alumni (DYA) under one banner, in order to provide stronger support to current and former Dunmanites.

All students are provided with locker style tables to house their textbooks and school materials.

[citation needed] There are a total of fifteen computer, science and animation labs in the school.

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

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