Anglo-Chinese Junior College

Anglo-Chinese Junior College
The Best Is Yet To Be
Address
25 Dover Close East, Singapore 139745 Central Region Dover Singapore
Information
Type	Government-Aided
Religious affiliation(s)	Christianity
Denomination	Methodist
Established	1 March 1886
Opened	1977
Founder	William F. Oldham
Superintendent	Rathi Parimalan
Session	Single-Session
School code	0803
Chairman	Richard Seow (ACS Board of Governors)
Principal	Beatrice Chong
Gender	Mixed
Enrolment	1900+
Colour(s)	Red, blue, gold
Song	ACS Forever
Affiliation	Anglo-Chinese Schools, Geylang Methodist Secondary School, Methodist Girls' School, Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (Secondary)
Website	http://acjc.moe.edu.sg/

Anglo-Chinese Junior College (ACJC) in Singapore opened in 1977 and is the junior college arm of the Anglo-Chinese School family of Methodist schools. ACJC offers the standard two-year pre-university programme, with students taking the GCE 'A' Levels in their second year. It was the first Junior College in Singapore to have a sports field and a running track on campus.

The history of the school dates back to 1913, when Rev. William Oldham saw the need for a junior college for ACS. As a result, the Anglo-Chinese College building project and fund-raising initiative was started by Rev. J S Nagle, who started negotiations with the British colonial government about setting up a college to prepare students for British university education. The proposal was turned down by the government, who decided in favour of establishing Raffles College (now the National University of Singapore) to commemorate the centenary of the founding of Singapore.

In 1970 the ACS Board of Governors submitted their recommendations for a junior college to the Singapore government. A 6-hectare site at Rochester Park on a 30-year lease was given for the construction of the college. ACJC thus became the fifth junior college to be established in line with the Ministry of Education's policy on pre-university education, equivalent to a British Sixth-form college, welcoming 968 students in Pre-U 1 and Pre-U 2, on 3 January 1977. To start with, it was an all-male institution. Its main complex was equipped with three lecture theatres, a library, the Tan Chin Tuan Auditorium and eight laboratories. The Shaw Sports Complex housed a 400-metre bitumen track, tennis, volleyball, basketball and sepak takraw courts.