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The Los Angeles Unified School District's $41 million Orthopaedic Hospital Magnet School opened in 2004, fourteen years after the last, purpose-built new school in the system. The Los Angeles Times.com said of the high school's opening: "The Orthopaedic Hospital magnet, a modernistic two-story campus surrounding a courtyard, will open with 400 ninth- and 10th-graders and grow the next two years to enroll 760 students in the ninth through the 12th grades. It is the first school constructed in the district since Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet in Lincoln Heights opened in 1990. Before that, the last high school built in the district was John F. Kennedy in the San Fernando Valley in 1971. For the new magnet school, Orthopaedic Hospital donated a portion of the 4.27-acre property, on West 23rd Street in the shadow of downtown high-rises, in a neighborhood of large warehouses and a few old houses. Other parts of the school site had been occupied by businesses, mostly in the garment trade. The school district acquired those properties and relocated the businesses, mostly within the neighborhood. Since [1999], the district has changed its construction practices. Among other reforms, a new professional facilities staff has sought out partnerships like the one with Orthopaedic Hospital; other schools built in cooperation with Cal State Northridge and the California Science Center are soon to open." (See Cara Mia DiMassa, Los Angeles Times.com, "L.A. Unified Opens First Newly Built High School in 14 Years," published 08/06/2004, p. B1, B8.)

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