Summary:
ZIP code 96797 is home to exactly one middle school: Waipahu Intermediate School, a grades 7–8 campus with 1,113 students at 94-455 Farrington Hwy, Waipahu, HI. It is part of the Hawaii Department of Education, the state's single district, so district-level rankings ("1 of 1") don't offer a meaningful peer comparison. Because there is only one middle school in this ZIP code, the most useful context for parents is how this school performs over time and against other Hawaii middle schools statewide.
That statewide picture is strong and improving. The school earned a 4-star rating in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, up from 3 stars in 2023–2024. Its state rank climbed from 30th of 89 (66th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 16th of 84 (81st percentile) in 2024–2025, then 15th of 85 (82nd percentile) in 2025–2026 — roughly the top 18% of ranked Hawaii middle schools. Subject scores show a clear profile: English language arts proficiency was 63% in 2024–2025 and 60% in 2025–2026, the strongest area; math was 42% and then 40%, the weakest, trailing ELA by about 20 percentage points; science sat in the middle and edged up from 51% to 53%. Notably, ELA and math dipped slightly while the school's relative rank still improved.
Context matters here. Chronic absenteeism was 22.0% in 2024–2025 — about 1 in 5 students — and 57.23% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch, a majority of the student body. The student-teacher ratio was 14.6, implying roughly 76 teachers for the 1,113 students. Per-student spending of $15,691 comes from 2018–2019 and should be treated as historical, not current. Overall, this is a large, high-performing, improving school whose main academic focus area is math.
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