[4] In 2008 the Outdoor Wise Learning Spaces (OWLS) were created as a way to take advantage of the campus's expansive undeveloped acreage.

The installations include an outdoor classroom, a fitness course, and a student art gallery; a weather station providing real-time readings online; and a 2.5-mile system of five trails, varying in length and difficulty, each including interpretive signs and trail marker posts.

Students can study Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese and Latin from sixth grade onward; at least three years of one language are required to graduate.

Students are also given the opportunity to travel to a native country of the language they are studying during Project Week in high school.

[6] The theatre department at The Overlake School has grown substantially since the addition of The Fulton Performing Arts Center in 2002.

In 2002, members of the Overlake community raised the funds to construct an elementary school in rural Pailin, Cambodia.