[1][3] The building was designed by the architectural firm Arquitectonica[4] adjacent to its Wilshire Vermont Station mixed use transit village development.
[5][6] YOKA is a public middle school serving the communities of Pico Union and Koreatown, at 615 S. Shatto Place near the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Vermont Avenue.
It is part of a multi-use site that includes an apartment building, retail space, and eating establishments.
[1][2] YOKA also focuses on STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education as a core component of their curriculum in all content.
Teachers incorporate interdisciplinary units and project-based learning (PBL) into their instruction to support STEM single-gender education.