Niihau High & Elementary School

Set in Waimea, Hawaii, Niihau High & Elementary School is a rural-scale unified-grade school, overseen by Hawaii Department of Education. It works with 13 students across grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 97% smaller than the state mean of about 412.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Niihau High & Elementary School lists that 100% of students identify as Pacific Islander, making the school strongly Pacific Islander-majority.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kauai County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Kauai County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,668 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Niihau High & Elementary School is one of 22 public schools in Kauai County (combined enrollment of about 9,236 students).

Nearest neighbor: Waimea High School, around 0.0 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Niihau High & Elementary School's enrollment has grew 44% since 2018, when it stood at 9 (now 13). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 4.5:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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