Summary:
ZIP code 96790 has one public school, Kula Elementary School, serving grades PK–5 with 339 students under the Hawaii Department of Education, and there are no middle or high schools in the ZIP code.
For 2025–2026, the school ranked 85th of 203 Hawaii schools, with a percentile of 58 and a 3-star rating, up from 97th of 204 (percentile 52, 3 stars) in 2024–2025 and close to its 2023–2024 rank of 86th of 207. Proficiency was 59% in English Language Arts and 54% in Mathematics, both above the midpoint, while Science was 44%. Compared with 2024–2025, Math rose from 41% and ELA rose from 50%, but Science fell from 56% to 44%. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 14.1 in 2024–2025; with 339 students, that suggests roughly 24 teachers on a full-time-equivalent basis. The only spending figure is $15,886 per student from 2018–2019, so it is older than the other data. The district entry is marked 5 stars, but Hawaii is a single-district state in this data set, shown as rank 1 of 1, so that rating should not be read as a peer comparison against other districts.
Parents should also note that chronic absenteeism was 22.0% in 2024–2025, meaning about one in five students was chronically absent, and the free/reduced lunch rate was 49.26%, indicating nearly half of students come from lower-income backgrounds based on meal data. Science uses the HSA exam while ELA and Math use the Smarter Balanced Assessments, so cross-subject comparisons should be made cautiously. Overall, the school shows stable state ranking, improved ELA and Math proficiency, and a relatively favorable student-teacher ratio, but it faces a recent Science drop and attendance and socioeconomic challenges. The strongest recent academic trend is the 13-point Math gain; the most immediate academic concern is the 12-point Science decline.
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