Kulanihakoi High School

Kulanihakoi High School is one of the one-room-style senior highs in Kihei, Hawaii, one of the schools within Hawaii Department of Education, with 370 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 11. By comparison, Hawaii's public schools average about 1,058 students each, so Kulanihakoi High School sits 65% leaner than that benchmark.

Hawaii Department of Education runs 296 schools in total, collectively educating 167,071 students. Kulanihakoi High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Kulanihakoi High School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 32%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest consists of 26% White, 15% multiracial, 14% Asian, 12% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Maui County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at Kulanihakoi High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Maui County) shows that median household income runs about $97,161, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Maui County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,695 students), of which Kulanihakoi High School is one.

The closest other public school is Kihei Elementary School, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Kulanihakoi High School.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.