[3] It works closely with the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) and students' parents who are represented by a Parent–School Association.

[4] Macau Anglican College opened in 2002 as a "private and experimental school"[1] with 145 pupils spanning five classes in total.

[6][7][8] The COVID-19 pandemic caused problems for the school as foreign teachers were not allowed into Macau owing to border restrictions.

[2] Principal David Brown stated that in the beginning the school was called "experimental" for its style of curriculum and that this did not bother him.

Upper secondary students have more freedom of choice in choosing which subjects they wish to study before; Chinese, English, Mathematics and Physical Education are compulsory due to local government requirements.

Pupils were also offered a variety of extra-curricular activities, and after-school care is provided for children in case it is necessitated by their parents' schedules.

[11][12] MAC's boys' association football team has won the Group A finals three years in a row.

[1] He says that it was the mission of the school that inspired him to look at "the creation of Adam", the fresco painted by Michelangelo at the Sistine Chapel's ceiling.