The library is located in a converted classroom and is open to children only two days a week, since it also doubles as an art and music room. The office has been carved out of the corridor. Its location on the second floor makes it difficult for the office staff to monitor people entering and leaving the building, presenting a security problem Many of the schools special services are offered in converted closets and small rooms created at the end of the hallways.
Classrooms are tiny and cramped.
There is no cafeteria. As a result, students eat in their classrooms, and food is distributed in the main corridor just inside the front entrance to the building. There is little parking and little play space. The youngest children have to play in front of the school right next to busy Western Avenue, while the older children cross over the road in back to play in a city park. School 27's beautiful, historic facade and its interior lobby will be preserved.