The school has another campus called the Olive Branch, which runs occasional classes in Agriculture and Horticulture.

In 2005 there were a number of issues of concern raised involving the school, including a visiting imam's public antisemitic comments.

[4] In 2015, the school principal Omar Hallak was reported to have told students that the terrorist group ISIS was part of a Western plot.

[5] The principal's comments were condemned as "reckless and dangerous if true" by James Merlino, Victoria's Education Minister.

[6][7][8] During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, Al-Taqwa College was one of the biggest case clusters in Victoria, and the second biggest cluster outside of public housing and aged care, with 210 confirmed cases linked to the college as of mid-August.