NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools HI

Best-Resourced Schools in Ewa Beach, HI

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11 public K-12 schools in Ewa Beach from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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11
Schools
11,294
Students
36/100
Avg Resource Index
16.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ewa Beach has more public-school enrollment than 83% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ewa Beach's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

7 of Ewa Beach's 11 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 21-point gap between James Campbell High School and Ewa Elementary School shows the range hidden by Ewa Beach's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 17%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
28th percentile
Teacher staffing
40th percentile

James Campbell High School accounts for 25.6% of all Ewa Beach public-school enrollment

That concentration means Ewa Beach-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Ewa Beach school enrollment varies 5.9× across entities

Ewa Beach school enrollment ranges from 493 students (lowest) to 2,890 students (highest), a spread of 2,397 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Ewa Beach operates one school district — a single-district system

Ewa Beach's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Ewa Beach student-teacher ratio is 16.3:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Ewa Beach is typically wider than the Ewa Beach-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. James Campbell High School 44
2. Ewa Makai Middle School 43
3. Honouliuli Middle School 41
4. Pohakea Elementary School 40
5. Keoneula Elementary School 37
6. Kaimiloa Elementary School 36
7. Ilima Intermediate School 34
8. Ewa Beach Elementary School 34
9. Holomua Elementary School 33
10. Iroquois Point Elementary School 31
11. Ewa Elementary School 23

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ewa Beach

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Ewa Beach Elementary School 80.4/100
  2. 2 Honouliuli Middle School 77.6/100
  3. 3 Keoneula Elementary School 77.3/100
  4. 4 Ewa Makai Middle School 77.0/100
  5. 5 Pohakea Elementary School 76.9/100

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Which Ewa Beach school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

James Campbell High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ewa Beach schools in this federal-data comparison at 44/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ewa Beach, HI? ▼

Ewa Beach has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 11,294 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.