It was named one of America's top high schools by U.S. News and World report six years in a row.

Students attend in person at one of the school's resource centers at least twice per week and work independently online on the other days.

O'Farrell boys basketball clinched a Division V playoff spot in the Summit League in the 2023 season.

The Falcons maintain a strong rivalry with the Calexico High School Bulldogs of Imperial Valley League.

This rivalry is notorious around the CIF San Diego Section for re-emerging from a 49-0 Calexico blowout on Valley Sports Network in 2023.

In basketball and football, the Mountain Empire Red Hawks and O'Farrell Falcons have a divisional opposing rivalry.

Gompers Preparatory Academy Basketball has recently been a light divisional competitiveness within the Summit League alongside the High Tech Chula Vista Bruins, as well as River Valley Leopards Soccer and Horizon Prep in soccer and girls basketball.