NYA provided structural engineering for the LAUSD Valley Academy for Arts and Sciences, a high school for 1,200 students. The total site is just over 11 acres with a program developed in three small learning communities for the Science-Technology-Engineering & Math (STEM), the Arts, and Music programs. It was designed in and around the existing steel structure of a former hospital main building which was adapted for classroom use, saving the school approximately $17 million.