Schools in Zip Code 61062

Zip code 61062 has three schools in Pearl City CUSD 200, serving prekindergarten through grade 12 and enrolling 418 students: 213 at Pearl City Elementary School, 58 at Pearl City Junior High School, and 147 at Pearl City High School. The clearest academic contrast is between the elementary school’s above-state IAR results and the junior high’s below-state results; the junior high’s substantial deficits are the area’s most important academic concern.

Pearl City Elementary School leads the reported 2025–2026 all-grades IAR results: 59% in ELA and 47% in math, compared with state rates of 56% and 40%. Its advantages were 3 percentage points in ELA and 7 in math. At the other end, Pearl City Junior High School scored 37% in ELA and 22% in math, 19 and 17 points below the state; the two schools’ results differed by 22 points in ELA and 25 in math. Pearl City High School shows a mixed picture: its grade 10 PreACT results were above state rates in ELA, math, and science by 1, 9, and 6 points, while grade 11 ACT ELA and science were 14 and 12 points below state rates.

Recent results move in different directions. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the elementary school’s all-grades ELA score rose 15 points, shifting from 9 points below the state to 3 points above; the junior high’s ELA and math deficits widened to 19 and 17 points. At the high school, grade 10 PreACT scores gained 13 points in ELA, 18 in math, and 17 in science, while grade 9 math fell 38 points. SchoolDigger rankings also declined over time: the high school moved from the 93rd to the 47th percentile, and the junior high from the 87th to the 39th; the elementary school shifted from the 62nd to the 58th percentile. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 40% at the elementary school, 40% at the junior high, and 31% at the high school; student–teacher ratios ranged from 10.0 to 11.7. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was below the state’s 24% at all three schools, at 4%–10%.