The former Grove Street Elementary School occupies a large plot of land in the middle of a residential neighborhood. The area is lower-class, the streets lined with rows of triple-decker houses. The school is in an obvious state of disrepair and abandonment. It is a two-storey, T-shaped, brick building standing on a granite foundation. The building features brick quoins on the corners and modillion blocks at the cornices. The entrances are composed of recessed, arched openings in the wings flanking the central block. There are two entrances because at the time of construction, boys and girls entered the school separately. The arches feature brick corbelling and keystones. All the windows have been boarded up; they were once either rectangular or round-arch openings with granite sills. The plot of land is surrounded by a small parking lot. There seem to have been no significant changes to the size and the structure of the school since it was built.