The school district superintendent was Jeffrey Zackon, until he unfortunately died due to a heart attack during the German class trip, on April 20, 2011, while in the Swiss Alps.

[3] The Oley Valley School District's current superintendent is Gina Finnerty.

The school made the national news on January 24, 2002, when a 62-old bus driver, named Otto Nuss, took 13 children on an unauthorized five-hour detour of 115 miles (185 km) to Landover Hills, Maryland outside Washington, D.C.,[6] on what was supposed to be a 6-mile, 15-minute trip to Berks Christian School in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania.

[7] On September 23, 2003, Nuss was sentenced to 4 years in prison for federal kidnapping.

[8] A student wearing a gorilla mask and armed with a banana climbed onto the roof of the high school on February 15, 2005, as a prank.