Summary:
ZIP code 96707 in Kapolei, Hawaii contains exactly one middle school, Kapolei Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 727 students as part of the Hawaii Department of Education. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP code, families here have no local public middle-school alternative, so the most useful comparisons are against Hawaii middle schools statewide and against the school's own performance over time.
Kapolei Middle is a consistently strong state performer. It earned 4 stars in each of the last three years and ranked 16 out of 89 Hawaii middle schools in 2023–2024, then 19 out of 84 in 2024–2025 and 19 out of 85 in 2025–2026 — placing it in the top quartile statewide (percentiles of 82, 77, and 78, respectively). Its student–teacher ratio is a favorable 12.9:1, and 39.61% of students qualified for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025. The district carries a 5-star rating and rank of 1 of 1, but since Hawaii is a single statewide district in this data, that district rank is not a meaningful peer comparison.
Academically, ELA is the school's strongest subject at 60% proficient in 2024–2025, easing to 57% in 2025–2026. Math is the clear relative weakness, flat at 41% both years and 16 points below ELA in 2025–2026. Science sits in the middle, slipping from 50% to 48%. Note that ELA and math use the Smarter Balanced Assessments while science uses the HSA, so cross-subject comparisons are not perfectly apples-to-apples. Chronic absenteeism was 21.0% in 2024–2025 — roughly 1 in 5 students — a notable challenge that often drags on proficiency. The only spending figure available is $15,105 per student from 2018–2019, too dated to reliably tie to current outcomes. Overall, Kapolei Middle looks like a stable, above-average Hawaii middle school whose main academic lever is math and whose main non-academic concern is absenteeism.
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