After the decision was voted on by the Board of Education, the president of the LA Conservancy stated that while the Ambassador Hotel was not saved, an agreement had been reached with LAUSD to preserve many other historical sites.

[7][8][9][10] The site of the ballroom where Kennedy gave his last speech is now occupied by a school library,[11] while the location of the pantry where he was fatally wounded is now a storage room.

The commission's major recommendation called for a social justice theme to permeate the curriculum, extending from kindergarten through high school, that would reflect Senator Kennedy's commitment throughout his public life.

The project was originally conceived in 1991 by a group of ten grassroots community leaders, under the acronym of the L.A. CRUSADERS, including Lisa Sarno, Ronald Lazar and other respected neighborhood improvement organizers.

Ronald Lazar articulated the plan for the school and suggested Donald Trump seek a better location for the world's tallest building.

Assemblyman Mike Roos and his chief aide, Michael Caccioti, arranged for the group to meet in a local church, where ideas were born, rallies were organized, and eventually resulted in an architectural model depicting the combination of schools, community green space, centralized social services, commercial space, low-cost housing and a solution to the expense of $200,000 annually spent on the daily bussing of thousands of students to schools as far away as North Hollywood.

The L.A. CRUSADERS organized for busloads of community members to travel to the State Assembly in Sacramento, where they lobbied successfully for $53 million to purchase the site for the project in 1991.

The school features a marble memorial depicting Robert F. Kennedy, a manicured public park, and a state-of-the-art swimming pool.