School Name Honors 1st Latino Councilman
Rows of orange groves will be removed today to make way for an intermediate school.
Raymond A. Villa Intermediate School is named for the first Latino elected to the Santa Ana City Council and the first Mexican American appointed to the Orange County Democratic Central Committee, according to the school district. Villa died in 1992 at age 75.
Villa would become the Santa Ana Unified School District’s eighth intermediate school, bringing the number of district schools to 45.
The school, to be next to district headquarters, is expected to open in early 1998 and enroll about 1,300 students. The school will be built at a cost of $30 million.
School officials, local politicians and Villa family members are expected to attend the 9:30 a.m. ceremony.
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