Fall and spring semester program students complete a study course within seven classes, including Island School Seminar, Marine Ecology, Applied Scientific Research, Literature and Writing, Histories of the Bahamas, Applied Mathematics, and Land and Environmental Art.

Chris Maxey taught at the school, and in 1996 he received the Joukowsky Fellowship award allowing him to work towards his master's in Marine Resource Management at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami, which is located in Florida, United States.

On March 15, 1999, Pam and Chris started the first 14-week, one-hundred-day Island School semester, which included 22 students and 6 faculty members.

The current campus comprises a faculty office and school store, two large dormitory buildings, four main classrooms, a boathouse, a dining hall with outside patio seating, a student life and medical center, two two-story faculty apartment buildings, two open-air gazebos, a living-roof multi-use building, a farm and orchard, a bio-diesel production facility, wood shop, a resource processing center, and in addition, the adjacent campus which hosts the Cape Eleuthera Institute.

The school seeks to transform its waste outputs through its constructed wetland which captures nutrients and filters wastewater before it's used to irrigate landscaping.

In 2003, a student research group pioneered the biodiesel program, which annually transforms 18.000 gallons of waste cooking oil collected from local restaurants and cruise ships.

The school's permaculture, aquaculture, and aquaponics programs seek to reduce the amount of food imported annually.