[a]This school, started by Rowland Lowery, provided for the education of deaf and blind Indian children of the Five Civilized Tribes.

(The original cornerstone was found, purchased, and donated to the school by Thomas Thompson, Betty Stephens, and Larry Hawkins.)

It started in 2016, when the school slowly began to remove Native imagery to a simple block with an O tied with two feathers.

Until 2020 staff members and alumni gathered together to form a mascot committee which they collected feedback and input from the community to finalize the change.

OSD provided 2,506 direct services to deaf or hearing-impaired students and 14,847 contacts of families, schools, and hearing impaired organizations.

The school receives small amounts of funding through Child Nutrition, Career Technology and the Department of Libraries, as well as Medicaid reimbursement for eligible children.

OSD athletics compete in football, volleyball, cheer, basketball, track and the Special Olympics.

The second project is a teaching and mentoring program to increase the sign proficiency levels of education interpreters in public schools.

In 2011, the school undertook a fundraising campaign to upgrade and provide lights and bleachers for its rudimentary football stadium.