It is a four-story, 12-bay by 3-bay, brick building on a raised basement in the Art Deco-style.

It has a one-story addition on the eastern side built in 1958.

It features an entrance with Doric order columns and decorative terra cotta panels.

[2] It was named for Civil War General John F. Reynolds (1820–1863).

[1] The school was closed in 2013 and sold to the Philadelphia Housing Authority in 2014.