A. Beccles, applied to the government for financial aid, Saint Andrew's School became a grant-in-aid institution.

[5] Meanwhile, the old school buildings have been conserved and strengthened for re-use as a church, winning an Honourable Mention in the UNESCO Heritage Awards in 2007.

[7] In 2008, Saint Andrew's was one of eight schools in Singapore to begin offering three new subjects at the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level: Creative 3D Animation, Fundamentals of Electronics, and Introduction to Enterprise Development.

[10] From 2011, Saint Andrew's offers enhanced enrichment courses for upper secondary students taking the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level examinations in art.

[20] The school regards its system of prefects as an important element in maintaining an ethos of service and high standards of conduct.

There is a new system of demerit points, used in combination with the school's long-standing[23] policy of corporal punishment in the form of caning on the palm of the hand or on the buttocks over clothing.

[24] A Saint Andrew's student caught bringing pornography to school would be caned either in public or in class, depending on the seriousness of the case.

"In the process of resolving the conflict, the offenders are asked to suggest the appropriate consequences for their action, which may include any form of punishment.