Situated in the eastern residential estate of Pasir Ris, it is the sixteenth junior college established in Singapore.

[citation needed] Under Lai's leadership of, the college became a single-pointer JC (based on L1R5 admission) in less than a decade.

[1] The merger was in view of the declining cohort sizes since 2014, which was attributed to the fall in Singapore's birth rate.

[citation needed] Meridian Junior College offers Arts and Science courses that leads up to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level examinations.

Meridian Junior College offers a wide variety of CCAs which comprises 14 sports teams, 12 clubs & societies and 6 performing arts groups.