09 January 2020
Classes have begun at Singapore’s first high-rise junior college, Eunoia Junior College.
The Eunoia campus at Bishan costed $100 million to build and comprises two academic blocks of 10 and 12 storeys each, as well as a five-storey student activity block that houses with an eight-lane track, a field and a spectator gallery.
The cohort size of Eunoia Junior College is about 1,250. About two-thirds of the students come from the Integrated Programme from Catholic High School, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School and Singapore Chinese Girls’ School, while about a third were admitted through the Joint Admissions Exercise.
The new campus at Bishan is also the first designed with a community club — Bishan North Community Club — housed within it. The community club occupies about a fifth of the student activity block.
The principal of Eunoia JC, Mrs Wong-Cheang Mei Heng, said that feedback and sentiments on the new campus have been unanimously positive.