Maui Waena Intermediate School

Located at 795 Onehee Ave, in Kahului, Hawaii, Maui Waena Intermediate School is a substantial middle-grades school that serves 1,015 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Hawaii Department of Education. That puts it 53% above the typical public school in Hawaii, which averages around 665 students.

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

In terms of who attends, Maui Waena Intermediate School lists that the most-represented group is Asian (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 21% Pacific Islander, 16% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Maui County as a whole is about 28% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Maui Waena Intermediate School logs 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 49% of students at Maui Waena Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Maui County indicate median household income runs about $97,161, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Maui County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,695 students), Maui Waena Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Lihikai Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maui Waena Intermediate School.

Maui Waena Intermediate School operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Maui Waena Intermediate School has contracted 14%, going from 1,176 students in 2018 to 1,015 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 10% to 16%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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