The building was designed by James L. Libby, a Union Pacific Railroad employee.

[2][3] The brick school building is set on a high daylight basement with one main floor.

The entrance is marked by a Tudor arch, with a projecting battlement-like form enclosing it, crowned by parapet with stylized crenelations.

[3] The school was closed in 1959, when declining enrollment due to a slackening of mining activity led students to be bused to Rock Springs, 7 miles (11 km) away.

A renewed mining boom, this time for coal and trona led to the reopening of the school in 1973.