It is a two-story brick building with terra cotta and East Haven red sandstone trim, and a hip roof.

Its massing is somewhat typical of Queen Anne Victorian residential architecture, with an asymmetrical arrangement of features that include a three-story polygonal tower.

Its main entrance is recessed in a projecting bay that features a Romanesque round-arch opening.

Planning for this school began in 1889, and accelerated when one of the nearby district schoolhouses burned down.

Some of Robinson's larger-scale industrial works in New Haven bear some resemblance to this school, which opened in 1890.