Summary:
ZIP code 96701 in Hawaii contains just one high school: Aiea High School, a public school serving grades 9–12 with 865 students in the Hawaii Department of Education. Because Hawaii operates a single statewide district, there are no nearby district peers to compare against, and Aiea High is the only school in this area with reported data.
Academically, the school's clearest strength is English Language Arts, where proficiency held steady at 55% in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. That is 31 points higher than the latest Mathematics result and 27 points higher than Biology I. The concern is that the other two subjects moved in the wrong direction: Mathematics proficiency dropped from 33% to 24%, and Biology I fell from 42% to 28%. Overall school rankings mirror this uneven picture. In 2024–2025, Aiea High ranked 14th of 62 Hawaii high schools — the 77th percentile with 4 stars, squarely in the top quartile. In 2025–2026 it placed 29th of 65 (55th percentile, 3 stars), nearly identical to its 2023–2024 result of 30th of 67 (55th percentile, 3 stars). The strong 2024–2025 year looks like a high point rather than a sustained level.
On engagement and readiness measures, the graduation rate is 89.0% for 2024–2025, meaning roughly one in nine students did not graduate under the reported measure. Chronic absenteeism stands at 28.0%, so more than one in four students missed enough school to be flagged. Nearly half of students — 48.79% — were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, useful context for interpreting these outcomes. The student-teacher ratio is 14.5:1, which appears moderate, though the data offers no state comparison. One caveat for parents: the per-student spending figure of $16,459 dates to 2018–2019 and should not be read as current funding.
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