No 'back to normal' at Franklin High as campus grapples with trauma after student's death

October 13, 2026·Oct 13, 2026

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The Franklin High School community — its students, teachers and parents — are struggling to find a way forward as they mourn the death of senior Xavier Nungaray-Martinez, who was repeatedly hit by another student and then fell over a fourth-story railing on campus, a traumatic sequence of events that has sundered any sense of normalcy and prompted districtwide demands for safer schools. Students and others have gathered for at least three evening vigils near a sprawling makeshift memorial at the Los Angeles Unified School District campus in Highland Park. The campus has gone on lockdown twice in two weeks amid threats — none substantiated. But the emergency drills and parent notifications further jolted fears on campus, which includes a middle school in addition to the high school Xavier attended. “The mood has been really solemn,” said Mark Ramos, who teaches history and ethnic studies at Franklin High. “A lot of students are having a hard time processing all of this.”Teachers and students report attendance is down. Some teachers have slowed the pace of their classes to give students space to grieve.

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