Summary:
ZIP code 96750 covers Kealakekua, Hawaii, and holds five schools — two elementary, one middle, one high, and one alternative — all under the Hawaii Department of Education, serving students from PK through grade 12 with 2,526 students enrolled in total. The Konawaena pipeline — Konawaena Elementary School, Konawaena Middle School, and Konawaena High School — enrolls about 82% of those students, while Ke Kula o Ehunuikaimalino and Kona Pacific - PCS account for the rest. Because Hawaii has a single statewide district, district-level rankings and star ratings are identical for every school here and don't tell them apart; school-level results are what matter.
Konawaena High School is the largest, with 955 students, and has the highest English/language arts proficiency in the ZIP at 75%, up from 55%, with its rank rising from the 48th to the 77th percentile. Its math proficiency, however, is the lowest at 14%, and it has the largest classes at 18:1. Konawaena Middle School is the steadiest improver, with rank moving from the 54th to 58th to 61st percentile and the top science result at 51%. Konawaena Elementary School posts the highest math score at 42%, though that slipped from 48%, and sits near the 40th percentile.
Among the smaller schools, Kona Pacific - PCS, with 177 students, has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 26%, the smallest classes at 10.1:1, and the lowest per-student spending at $9,540 (2018–19); its science score jumped from 28% to 50% while math fell from 34% to 29%. Ke Kula o Ehunuikaimalino, with 275 students, reports the highest graduation rate at 93.7% but the lowest proficiency in ELA (20%), math (21%), and science (17%), plus the highest absenteeism at 40% — as an alternative PK–12 school it serves a different population, so comparisons deserve caution. Notably, math is a weak point everywhere: no school reaches 50% math proficiency, and every school has more than half its students eligible for free or reduced lunch.
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