Summary:
ZIP code 96701 covers Aiea, Hawaii and contains 7 public schools — 5 elementary schools, 1 middle school and 1 high school — serving roughly 3,190 students, all within the Hawaii Department of Education. Aiea High School enrolls 865 students and Aiea Intermediate School 470, while the five elementaries total 1,855: Gustav H Webling Elementary School (436), Alvah A Scott Elementary School (433), Pearl Ridge Elementary School (409), Waimalu Elementary School (312) and Aiea Elementary School (265). District-level ratings are identical for every school here, so school-level proficiency, absenteeism, poverty rates and rank history are far more useful for comparison.
The academic standouts are Pearl Ridge Elementary School, with the highest ELA (68%) and math (66%) proficiency and the lowest free/reduced lunch rate (23.96%); Gustav H Webling Elementary School, the most balanced and improving school with ELA 64%, math 61%, the ZIP's highest science score (65%), the lowest chronic absenteeism (8%) and a climb from the 68th to the 81st percentile; and Aiea Intermediate School, the strongest middle school at the 81st percentile with ELA 61%, math 50% and science 41%. Aiea High School is mixed: ELA holds at 55% and graduation is 89.0%, but math fell from 33% to 24% and Biology I from 42% to 28%.
Challenges concentrate at Aiea Elementary School, Waimalu Elementary School and Alvah A Scott Elementary School. Aiea Elementary has the lowest ELA (28%), math (20%) and science (17%), the highest chronic absenteeism (31%) and free/reduced lunch (73.21%), and a 0-star rating. Waimalu posts 44% ELA, 41% math and just 17% science. Scott is mid-to-low at 45%, 40% and 48% science. Notably, spending and small class sizes do not guarantee results: Waimalu has the highest per-student spending ($18,370) yet 17% science, while Pearl Ridge spends the least ($14,945) and leads in ELA and math. Science is the weakest subject across the ZIP, averaging 37.6%.
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