[1] The school was established in 1998 as a transitional placement for students who had been released from the Island View residential treatment center.

[4] A former student featured the since-closed Oakley School in the documentary Now Return Us to Normal.

[5] In it, the filmmaker Leslie Koren and her diverse classmates described their experiences during their years at the behavior modification school.

[7] In 2021, Newport Academy, a nationwide network of residential treatment centers for teens struggling with mental health issues, opened a facility on the former campus of the Oakley School.

[8] The executive director of the Newport Academy teen residential treatment program in Oakley is Gary Broadbent, who also worked as a therapist at the Oakley School and Island View Residential Treatment Center in Syracuse, Utah.