Before being transferred to Oak Park, these students chose the school's colors, mascot, and wrote its alma mater.

[3] Past Oak Park High School principals: In 2015 and in 2023 the student body elected a transgender girl as its homecoming queen.

[7] Oak Park was named a 2018 National Model High School by the International Center for Leadership in Education.

Oak Park received a score of 99.6% in 2015-2016 from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on their annual performance review.

The original newspaper was called "The Northman's Log," now produced as a magazine, and the yearbook named the "Cambia", a reference to vascular cambium which makeup the rings of a tree that can be counted to tell its age.