Summary:
ZIP code 96792 covers Waianae, HI, and contains just one middle school: Waianae Intermediate School, which serves grades 7–8 and enrolls 745 students as part of the Hawaii Department of Education. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there are no other local schools to compare it against, so the picture below is a profile of this single school rather than a comparison.
Waianae Intermediate is a large grades 7–8 school with several indicators of high need. In 2024–2025, 69.93% of students were eligible for free or reduced lunch, and 42.0% were chronically absent — meaning more than two in five students missed enough school to be flagged. The student-teacher ratio was 12.8 in 2024–2025, and per-student spending was reported at $17,083 in 2018–2019, a figure that is now several years old. Test proficiency in 2025–2026 was low across all subjects: 27% in English Language Arts, 19% in Science, and 17% in Mathematics. Statewide, the school ranked 77 out of 85, placing it in the 9th percentile with 1 star in 2025–2026 — the same 1-star rating it received in each of the three reported years.
Year-over-year trends are mixed. Mathematics improved by 3 percentage points, from 14% to 17%, and Science held steady at 19%, while English Language Arts declined by 2 points, from 29% to 27%. The statewide percentile also slipped from 12 in 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 to 9 in 2025–2026. The clearest positive signal is the math gain; the clearest concerns are the ELA decline, the 42.0% chronic absenteeism rate, and a rank near the bottom statewide. Families should also note that the data has gaps — there is no state average, no peer school in the same ZIP code, and no multi-year history for absenteeism or lunch eligibility.
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