Mr. Fleiss and Mr. Murray, each important architects of their generation, collaborated on a number of schools. This one, built as a vocational school in South Riverdale, is an unusual four or five-storeys tall: there is a central gym which is sunken below grade and the top floor is a roof playground. The gym and cafetorium are surrounded by classrooms and capped by what was originally a roof playground. The building’s façades of precast concrete and brick retain their firm beauty, and the school’s tall-and-tight organization shows us how schools can fit compactly into the city.

This school replaced an existing building on the same site and it was a girls' school.

This building was a Finalist in the Massey Medals for Architecture of 1964.

• Architect - James A. Murray  <-- More buildings by this architect.
• Architect - Henry Fliess  <-- More buildings by this architect.
• Architect - Frederick C. Etherington - Chief architect of the Toronto District School Board.   <-- More buildings by this architect.
• Electrical engineer - W.H. Bonus & Associates
• General contractor - Mitchell Construction Company
• General contractor - Mitchell Construction Company
• Mechanical / electrical engineer - A. Brittain & Associates Ltd.
• Structural engineer - M.S. Yolles & Associates