Summary:
Zip code 96814 in Honolulu is served by just two public schools at very different grade levels: Queen Kaahumanu Elementary School (PK–5) and President William McKinley High School (9–12), both in the Hawaii Department of Education. With no middle school in the zip code, families here likely look outside the area for grades 6–8. Combined enrollment is 1,722 students — 1,245 at McKinley and 477 at Queen Kaahumanu.
McKinley is the higher-ranked school, placing 19th out of 65 high schools in 2025–26 (71st percentile, 4 stars). Its ELA proficiency of 52% is the stronger of the two, and Biology I proficiency improved from 31% to 41%. The challenges are math proficiency at only 24%, a graduation rate of 73.0%, and chronic absenteeism of 34.0%. So McKinley stands out for rank and ELA, but is not uniformly strong.
Queen Kaahumanu posts balanced results — 47% proficient in both ELA and math — with math climbing from 37% the prior year. Its chronic absenteeism is lower at 27.0%, its student-teacher ratio is smaller (12.7 vs. 13.9), and per-student spending is higher ($17,851 vs. $15,909), though it serves more students from low-income families by the free/reduced-lunch measure (65.41% vs. 53.33%). Its Science score slipped from 44% to 40%, and its rank is lower at 114th of 203 elementary schools (44th percentile, 2 stars). The clearest trend is the widening math gap — now 23 points in the elementary school's favor — while McKinley's early ELA advantage narrowed to 5 points.
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