Summary:
Zip code 96731 is served by two public schools in the Hawaii Department of Education, together covering the full PK–12 pipeline: Kahuku Elementary School for grades PK–6 with 339 students, and Kahuku High & Intermediate School for grades 7–12 with 1,433 students. Combined enrollment is 1,772, and the high/intermediate school enrolls about 80.9% of those students, with no separate middle or alternative school listed in this extract.
Academically, the two schools are moving in different directions. Kahuku High & Intermediate School improved markedly: its state rank rose from 40 of 62 (35th percentile, 2 stars) to 28 of 65 (57th percentile, 3 stars), and ELA proficiency climbed from 40% to 55% while math rose from 22% to 26%. It also reports a 90.0% graduation rate. Math remains its weakest subject, below the elementary school’s 38%. Kahuku Elementary School is steadier but lower ranked at 148 of 203 (27th percentile, 1 star), essentially unchanged across three years; its ELA slipped from 45% to 41%, while math rose from 33% to 38% and science from 31% to 35%. Averaged across all three subjects in 2025–2026, the schools are nearly identical — 38.7% at the high school versus 38.0% at the elementary — despite very different ratings.
Attendance and economics show a noteworthy pattern: the elementary school has more students from low-income families (free/reduced lunch 64.01% versus 50.17%) yet lower chronic absenteeism (25.0% versus 35.0%), a 10-point gap in the elementary school’s favor. Resources are similar — per-student spending of $15,970 versus $16,622 (2018–2019 data) and student-teacher ratios of 14.1 versus 14.6. Keep in mind that test scores are all-grade aggregates for each school and no state averages are provided for proficiency, absenteeism, or graduation.
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