Fair Park has a three-story main section built of red brick trimmed with limestone.

Otherwise, though the building has been further expanded, the bricks sandblasted, and the windows replaced, it would be easily recognizable to its earliest students.

[1] In January 2017, Fair Park suddenly changed its principal after six consecutive years of "failed" ratings and continuing disciplinary problems.

Fair Park was rated "D" in its final year as a high school, improving from an "F."[5] Meanwhile, Earnestine Coleman of the Fair Park Parent, Teacher, Student Association, said that she and fifteen others plan a class action suit under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against the school board in a bid to halt the merger.

The combined thousand students will attend the Washington campus, with Fair Park becoming a middle school.