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Young Oak Kim Academy

2009 establishments in CaliforniaEducational institutions established in 2009Public middle schools in CaliforniaSchools in Los Angeles

Young Oak Kim Academy (YOKA) is a middle school within the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), Local District 4. It was established in 2009 as the only middle school in the LAUSD to practice single-sex education. The school is named in honor of Colonel Young-Oak Kim, the first Asian-American colonel to lead a U.S. battalion in war. It is L.A.'s first middle school, and the third school overall, named for a Korean American. The building was designed by the architectural firm Arquitectonica adjacent to its Wilshire Vermont Station mixed use transit village development.

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Young Oak Kim Academy
Metro Red/Purple Lines Entrance, Los Angeles Koreatown

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