The fountain had been 40 feet in diameter and was built in honor of America's centennial celebration in 1876. Powered by a new engine house at the time, the fountain's stream was fifty feet in length. Agnes presently looks over the Alumni Park on the grounds of the present school. According to federal and state law, the IEP team should consider the child's use of residual hearing if any, amplification or special technological devices, social-emotional needs including opportunities to interact with other deaf students, communication modality preference, and academic achievement skills. Students' parents make arrangements through a local drivers education training business, which has an agreement through the Deaf Services Center to provide interpreters for class instruction.
Parents pay the fee charged by the drivers education business.
OSD's library has the largest collection of materials on deafness in Ohio. Patrons can sign up for a library card to borrow books and videotapes for a few weeks at a time. OSD's Student Health Services has a registered nurse on duty twenty-four hours a day. The SHS is a 16 bed facility. The school's physician visits OSD several times each week but is on call for consultation.