It serves deaf and hard of hearing students from kindergarten through high school, and up to 18 years of age.

[4] In 1895, the school moved to a site southeast of Salem on state-owned property near Turner Road.

[4] The Turner Road building is still standing and was repurposed first as the Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital, and later as part of Corban College.

Instead of Ty shouting with his bullhorn to surprise the school, he sent a small plane with a visual message while the staff and students were having their annual barbecue.

While the students were in Minnesota getting new hearing aids, the team built a new dormitory for the boys as their old dorms, along with the Nightmare Factory building, were considered unsafe to occupy.