She organized a parent-teacher association to raise funds for supplies and a new building, which opened in 1939 with three rooms.

In 1941, students, parents, and faculty raised $300, which paid for a music teacher, bus expenses, kitchen supplies, and the installation of electric lights.

Archer also established one of Fairfax County, Virginia's earliest 4-H Clubs for African Americans and her students participated in garden projects to raise vegetables for lunches prepared at school.

In addition to the academic curriculum, she taught sewing, cooking, music, and poetry to her students in fifth through seventh grades, which was then the highest level of public education available to African Americans in the county.

[6] After Archer's death, families petitioned the county to rename the Vienna Colored School in her honor.