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

The entrance portico features Doric order columns, and at the roofline is a brick parapet.

As a result, Nebinger principal Ralph Burnley and Leslie Patterson-Tyler, the wife of the reverend of the Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, established their own summer school program serving students from Nebinger and other area schools.

It was financed by members of the church and the Queen Village Neighborhood Association.

That year Kristen A. Graham of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that compared to the William M. Meredith School in Queen Village and the George A. McCall School in Society Hill, Nebinger "struggles more".