High · Hawaii
Waiakea High School
Waiakea High School, a public high school in Hilo, Hawaii: grades 9–12, 1,183 students, 15.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Hawaii Department of Education.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 1,183
- Teachers (FTE)
- 77.0
- Students per teacher
- 15.4
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 57% of high schools in Hawaii
Median 14.9 · 46 schools compared
More students per teacher than 57% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 59% of high schools in Hawaii
Median 1,011 · 46 schools compared
Larger than 79% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Remote town
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Hawaii Department of Education.
Location
- Address
- 155 W Kawili St, Hilo, HI 96720
- Phone
- (808)974-4888
- City or town
- Hilo
- County
- Hawaii County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Hilo High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,170 | 15.8 |
Ke Ana Laahana - PCSCharterFree meals for all | 7–12 | 33 | 8.3 |
Keaau High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,041 | 14.9 |
Pahoa High & Intermediate SchoolFree meals for all | 7–12 | 745 | 12.6 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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