Complex sentence: The school is named in honor of Colonel Young-Oak Kim, the first Asian-American colonel to lead a U.S. battalion in war, and is L.A. 's first middle school, and the third school overall, named for a Korean.
Split into simpler sentences: The school is named in honor of Colonel Young-Oak Kim, the first Asian-American colonel to lead a U.S. battalion in war. It is L.A. 's first middle school, and the third school overall, named for a Korean.