NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools HI

Best-Resourced Schools in Wahiawa, HI

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11 public K-12 schools in Wahiawa 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
6,464
Students
40.5/100
Avg Resource Index
12.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Wahiawa has more public-school enrollment than 66% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Wahiawa sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

8 of Wahiawa'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 29-point gap between Major Sheldon Wheeler Middle School and Wahiawa Elementary School shows the range hidden by Wahiawa'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 34%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
48th percentile
Teacher staffing
81st percentile

Leilehua High School accounts for 23.5% of all Wahiawa public-school enrollment

That concentration means Wahiawa-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

Wahiawa school enrollment varies 14× across entities

Wahiawa school enrollment ranges from 110 students (lowest) to 1,521 students (highest), a spread of 1,411 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Wahiawa operates one school district — a single-district system

Wahiawa'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

Wahiawa student-teacher ratio is 12.8:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Major Sheldon Wheeler Middle School 62
2. Kamalani Academy 44
3. Wahiawa Middle School 43
4. Leilehua High School 42
5. Major Sheldon Wheeler Elementary School 40
6. Daniel K Inouye Elementary School 39
7. Helemano Elementary School 37
8. Kaala Elementary School 36
9. Iliahi Elementary School 36
10. Sergeant Samuel K Solomon Elementary School 34
11. Wahiawa Elementary School 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Wahiawa

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 Leilehua High School 81.4/100
  2. 2 Helemano Elementary School 78.3/100
  3. 3 Wahiawa Elementary School 77.4/100
  4. 4 Major Sheldon Wheeler Middle School 77.0/100
  5. 5 Wahiawa Middle School 76.2/100

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Which Wahiawa school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Major Sheldon Wheeler Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Wahiawa schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Wahiawa, HI? ▼

Wahiawa has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,464 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.8:1.

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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.