Keaau Middle School

Located at 15-565 Keaau-Pahoa Rd, in Keaau, Hawaii, Keaau Middle School is an average-sized middle school that hosts 696 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Hawaii Department of Education.

Within Hawaii Department of Education, which oversees 296 schools and 167,071 students, Keaau Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Keaau Middle School shows that 31% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% Pacific Islander, 18% multiracial, 12% Asian, 10% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hawaii County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hawaii County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,639 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Hawaii County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,129 students), Keaau Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Keaau Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Keaau Middle School.

Keaau Middle School operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Keaau Middle School has changed only slightly, going from 697 students in 2018 to 696 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 31% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Keaau Middle School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.