Three times a week an assembly is held in the open quadrangle, organized by students of each class.

The student-chosen topics for these assemblies range from the importance of moral values, to current affairs, to scientific discoveries.

The school administration consists of a principal and vice-principal, assisted occasionally by other Fathers and Brothers.

The basketball court hosts inter-school, taluka-level, zonal level, and statewide games.

The main school building was formerly L-shaped, with the longer arm containing the main school and the shorter arm containing the boarding and resident priests' quarters on the upper floors, the Chapel of St. Ignatius and the administrative offices on the upper ground floor with a bridge leading to the quadrangle, and the primary section on the lower ground floor.

The quadrangle is home for South Goa's best-attended English services for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, Christmas, and New Years, when scores of people participate accompanied by school choirs.

In 2016 the school "won a national-level ‘White Swan Award’ hosted by AsiaOne Magazine as being the ‘Most Influential Brand’ in the education category in India.

"[3] Loyola was founded as Union High School in Salcette, Goa, on 13 July 1899, by the late Roque Santana Gracias.