It is a single story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof that has exposed rafters.

The interior has a long, narrow hallway dividing classrooms on either side.

The school was built c. 1880, and is the only surviving building in Texarkana associated with the life of the noted African-American composer Scott Joplin (1868-1917), the "father of American Ragtime".

[2] The building was originally two stories in height, but was reduced to one in 1920, when then hip roof and some of its Craftsman-style window treatment was added.

This article about a property in Miller County, Arkansas on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.