Cocoanut Grove Theatre Los Angeles Unified School District Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools

Los Angeles, CA | 582 seats | 48,410 sq ft

The former Ambassador Hotel has reinvented itself as the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools, a 430,410-square-foot campus comprised of six Pilot Schools: Ambassador School of Global Education, Ambassador School of Global Leadership, NOW Academy, UCLA-CS, School for the Visual Arts and Humanities and Los Angeles High School of the Arts.

Located on a 24-acre site, the campus serves 4,624 students during the school year. The hotel’s legendary Cocoanut Grove has been restored to a 582-seat theatre along with the 1940’s era Paul R. Williams-designed coffee shop turned into a teachers’ lounge.

The entire scope of the development includes a K-3 School, a 4-8 Middle School, and a High School, for a total of 4,624 students. The 92,000-square-foot, K-3 building accommodates 1,150 seats within 46 classrooms. The K-3 building is a 2-story, wood structure with plywood shear walls. The 4-8/High School building accommodates 3,474 seats within 130 classrooms on six floors totaling 382,000 square feet. The rehabilitated Cocoanut Grove building is an additional 48,410 square feet of enclosed and covered areas. The 6-story steel structure utilizes steel moment-resisting frames. The campus is serviced by a 2-level, 442-car parking structure.