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Co-ed
YES
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Total number of students
600
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Grades
K-12
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Founded in
1949
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% of international students
18%
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Average Class Size
15
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Student/Teacher Ratio
12:1
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ESL Offered
Yes
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AP Courses
18
- Biology
- Calculus AB
- Calculus BC
- Chemistry
- Environmental Science
- Comparative Government & Politics
- Human Geography
- Physics C
- Psychology
- Statistics
- Studio Art
- US History
- Physics 2
Support Programs
- ADD/ADHD Support
- College Counseling
- ESL: Intermediate
- ESL: Advanced
- Evening Study Assistance
- Learning Differences Support
- Peer Tutoring
- Study Skills Assistance
- Subject Tutoring
- Technology Center
- Writing Center
Foreign Languages
- Chinese-Mandarin
- Japanese
- Spanish
- Hawaiian
Sports
All HPA students are required to engage in an afternoon sport or active pursuit of some kind. The school offers a wide range of intramural options, including lacrosse, rugby, basketball, tennis, plus opportunities like horseback riding, yoga, and hiking. If you are a high school athlete looking for a competitive, interscholastic play, you will find expert coaching and conditioning on the 22 athletic teams. HPA belongs to the Big Island Interscholastic Federation (24 member schools) and the Hawaii High School Athletic Association (96 member schools). Go Ka Makani!
Clubs & Organizations
From star-gazing to surfing, and everything in between, you’ll find amazing opportunities waiting for you outside of class. The school offers a book club, chess club, KeyClub, Math/Science Club, Model United Nations, Yearbook, Foreign Language Related Clubs, Community Service Clubs, National Honors Society.
College Acceptance
HPA graduates are consistently admitted to highly selective colleges and universities, as well as many other outstanding institutions that meet their goals. Virtually 100 percent of the graduates enroll at four-year institutions and report high satisfaction with their university choice.
In the past six years, the graduates have enrolled at Harvard (2), Yale (2), Columbia, University of Chicago (3), Princeton, Brown (3), University of Pennsylvania (3), Dartmouth (9), Cornell (2), Stanford (5), UC Berkeley (6), UCLA (6), Duke, Johns Hopkins, MIT (2), Claremont McKenna (2), and Washington University in St. Louis (3). During this same time period, students were also admitted to many other well-known schools including Amherst, Boston College, Boston University, Bowdoin, Caltech, Emory, Michigan, Northeastern, NYU, Pomona, UVA, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Vanderbilt.
