The sons of the clergy, members of the armed services, and police officers were a second focus of the school in its early days.

Shreiner, because of his strict belief in the importance of discipline and a strong work ethic, was known to the boys as the "Colonel.

Over the first half of its history, the school's campus grew to 1700 acres, on which it operated a large farm with student labor.

This enterprise included a large dairy farm and hog raising operation and produced many crops.

The school gradually phased out agricultural activities, beginning in the mid-1970s, selling off most of the remaining farmland to developers by the late 1990s.