With ironbark studs, pine walls and floor boards, and hardwood shingles, the Waterford State School was said to be 30 ft by 16 ft in 1876.
It had exterior ironbark studs, pine tongue and groove walls, pine floor boards, and a hardwood shingled roof. In 1876 David Ewart, General Inspector for the Department of Public Instruction, described the Waterford school building as measuring 30 by 16 feet (9.1 by 4.9 m), with an entrance porch and no verandahs. 
