Summary:
ZIP code 96793, covering Wailuku on Maui, has just one public middle school: Iao Intermediate School, which serves grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 893 students at 260 S Market St. Because Hawaii runs a single statewide school system, this campus belongs to Hawaii Department of Education rather than a local district, so there are no neighboring middle schools in the ZIP to compare it against — every traditional public middle-schooler in 96793 attends this one campus.
Academically, the school sits near the middle of Hawaii's middle schools. In 2025-26 it ranked 43rd of 85 schools, at the 49th percentile with a 3-star rating; the year before it was 46th percentile with 2 stars, and in 2023-24 it reached 57th percentile with 3 stars. Those swings are notable because test scores barely moved over the same period. English Language Arts proficiency held flat at 48% across both reported years, math inched from 30% to 31%, and science rose from 33% to 35%. The clearest takeaway is a 17-point gap between ELA (48%) and math (31%), which makes math the school's weakest area and its most obvious instructional priority, while science shows the fastest — though still small — improvement.
Two context figures matter when reading those numbers. Chronic absenteeism stood at 37% in 2024-25, meaning roughly 330 of 893 students missed enough school to qualify, and 52.07% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch. The student-teacher ratio was 14.8 to 1, implying roughly 60 teaching positions. Per-student spending is listed at $15,155, but that figure is from 2018-19 and is now about seven years old, so it should not be treated as current. Absenteeism, lunch status, and staffing each have only a single year of data, so no trends can be drawn for school climate or resources. Overall: a large, mid-pack school with steady ELA results, weaker math, and an absenteeism challenge worth watching.
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