In 1993, after refurbishment, it won Royal Australian Institute of Architects Conservation Award[9] and Regional Commendation.

Building has continued at Boondall, and the campus now has sporting and academic facilities including technologically advanced classrooms throughout the school, an award-winning multi-level learning centre, science laboratories, a vocational education centre, a 400-seat auditorium, 13 playing fields for cricket, rugby and football, 12 tennis courts, indoor and outdoor basketball and volleyball courts, a multi-purpose gymnasium, an Olympic grade athletics track, a weights room, Olympic 50-metre and 25-metre heated swimming pools, a sound-proofed, digital recording studio, art workshops, and cattle yards.

[10] Heywood, who had a long criminal history, was convicted of the murder, and spent the remainder of his life in prison or in mental hospitals.

[15] On 30 April 2013, two students at St Joseph's Nudgee College, aged 16 and 17, were arrested on Tuesday on charges of possession and supply of steroids.

[16] In July 2017, the school's Nth Degree magazine published a photo of McLaughlin attending a birthday celebration at the college that took place on 31 May 2017 despite being under police investigation for child sexual abuse of a 12-year-old boy in 2015.

[18] In March 2018 at the schools annual St Joseph's Feast Day Mass, current principal Peter Fullagar offered a public apology on behalf of the current St Joseph's Nudgee College community for abuse committed by religious and past staff at the school.

Nudgee College is working with the Child Protection Unit and relevant police authorities.”[21] On 24 July 2022, ABC News Australia published a comprehensive report into McLaughlin and his relationship with Nudgee Old Boy and convicted child molester Dennis Norman Douglas.

[23][24] In October 2022, Nudgee College issued a statement to say it was conducting a review into the naming of one of its boarding houses after the school's former boarding master and deputy principal Brother Darcy Fidelis Murphy following the ABC News report into historical child sexual abuse allegations made against him.

The blue became red and the white became black.The result of the Centennial Nudgee vs Terrace rugby match was a 15-all draw.

[28][29] Nudgee College's teaching and learning ethos aligns with Art Costa's Habits of Mind framework.

The building and facilities were turned over to the St Joseph's Nudgee College and the site was repurposed by the school for planned redevelopment.