Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools
RFK Community Schools is located at the former site of the Ambassador Hotel.
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SCHOOL IN KOREATOWN LA
RFK Community Schools is located at the former site of the Ambassador Hotel.
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Public school now known as Berendo Junior High
About 600 students in kindergarten through fifth grade
A middle school within the Los Angeles Unified School District, Local District 4. It was established in 2009 as the only middle school in the LAUSD to practice single-sex education (different curricula and learning environments for girls and boys).
YOKA is named in honor of Colonel Young-Oak Kim, the first Asian-American colonel to lead a US battalion in war. It is LA’s first middle school, and the third school overall, named for a Korean.
Located near the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Vermont Avenue
Nicknamed the “Cathedral of Commerce” at one time, this art deco building trimmed in terra cotta and copper was the former site of Bullocks Department Store. It currently serves as the main library for the Southwestern Law School.
USD public school located just west of Koreatown proper
Virgil Middle School serves approximately 1,500 students in grades 5-8 in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Technically located north of Koreatown proper, in the East Hollywood area of Los Angeles.
Opened in the fall of 2005, the Mariposa-Nabi Primary Center is housed in a strikingly colorful building for students in kindergarten to second grade. Mariposa is the name of the street on which the school entrance is; it means “butterfly” in Spanish, while “Nabi” (나비) is the Korean word for “butterfly.”