NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools HI

Best-Resourced Schools in Pearl City, HI

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

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9
Schools
5,000
Students
34.2/100
Avg Resource Index
15.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Pearl City has more public-school enrollment than 55% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Pearl City'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 Pearl City's 9 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 29-point gap between Highlands Intermediate School and Waiau Elementary School shows the range hidden by Pearl City'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 45%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
23rd percentile
Teacher staffing
52nd percentile

Pearl City High School accounts for 29.6% of all Pearl City public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Pearl City-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

Pearl City school enrollment varies 6.0× across entities

Pearl City school enrollment ranges from 248 students (lowest) to 1,481 students (highest), a spread of 1,233 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

Pearl City operates one school district — a single-district system

Pearl City'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

Pearl City student-teacher ratio is 15.2:1 — 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 Pearl City is typically wider than the Pearl City-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Highlands Intermediate School 50
2. Pearl City High School 48
3. Pearl City Highlands School 40
4. Lehua Elementary School 34
5. Momilani Elementary School 33
6. Manana Elementary School 30
7. Pearl City Elementary School 26
8. Palisades Elementary School 26
9. Waiau Elementary School 21

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Pearl City

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 Lehua Elementary School 78.9/100
  2. 2 Pearl City Elementary School 78.1/100
  3. 3 Palisades Elementary School 76.2/100
  4. 4 Waiau Elementary School 74.9/100
  5. 5 Highlands Intermediate School 74.5/100

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Which Pearl City school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Highlands Intermediate School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Pearl City schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Pearl City, HI? ▼

Pearl City has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,000 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.2:1.

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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.