East Los Angeles – Last year, after the merger of two schools on one campus, the former Hilda L. Solis Learning Academy was temporarily renamed the Boyle Heights Hilda L. Solis STEM Magnet High School. It was an awkward and confusing nine-word moniker for a campus located in East Los Angeles, not Boyle Heights.

But when classes resume this week, students will return to a renamed campus that officials hope gives the campus a clearer identity, something it lacked last year.

“It took time to explain who you are,” said Annette Del Rio, magnet and intervention coordinator for both schools.

The campus’s identity crisis began at the start of the 2024-25 school year, when the high school named after County Supervisor Hilda Solis merged with and made room for the Boyle Heights STEM Magnet

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