Type Public Principal Mauro Bautista Website www.mendezhs.org Founded September 2009 | Opened September 2009 Grades 9-12 Phone +1 323-981-5400 Mascot Jaguars | |
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Address 1200 Plaza Del Sol E, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA District Los Angeles Unified School District | ||
Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez High School is a public high school in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
The school was built to alleviate the overcrowded Roosevelt High School. The site was designated in 2003, broke ground in 2006, and the campus opened in September 2009. It was the first high school to open in Boyle Heights in 28 years. It is built on 6.22 acres (2.52 ha). The building occupies 109,378 square feet (10,161.5 m2) and contains 38 classrooms. It was designed by Nadel Architects and Barrio Planners and was built by Hensel Phelps Construction at a cost of $108 million. The site attained a Collaborative for High Performance Schools score of 24.
The school is named after Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez, parents of American civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez who at eight years old, played an instrumental role in the Mendez v. Westminster case, the landmark desegregation case of 1946. The case successfully ended de jure segregation in California.