I am in 8th grade and my honest opinion on this school is ehh. i don't like their uniforms and it's…read morea waste of money. some of the teachers here like Ms. Gum shouldn't even be here. some of the students here honestly suck and can be assholes because they always talk shit behind your back whether they don't know you or do. it's an ok school but i don't know at the same time.

So many good and bad memories here. Teens full of raging hormones. Selfish needs and stressful…read moreadolescence. So glad its over. No school school theatrical performances since auditorium suffered a fire on the roof. One firemans theory was that a little bird dropped a lit cigarette on the roof. Hate it when those pesky chain smoker birds don't put out their ciggs. Yes Mr. Anbe in control @ my time. TYVM Mr Suzuki or Mr Moustache was pretty cool. He would roll eyes at me with my stupid jokes. Mrs. Hakoda was a dragon during school hours but at lunch time would watch soaps on TV with her. She taught me what sable is. Classy lady for sure. Mrs Kimura sparked my cooking and sewing hobbies. Ffwd 2018 Sitting in office waiting to meet current 6th grade counselor. Watching front desk admin better than skits on Saturday night live. OMG Gwen is a comedian with small kind student shaming. " what's a matter? Forgot how to spell your name?" Or " Were you ever on time to school?" I luv,luv,luv her. HILARIOUS! Probably a good sense of humor comes in handy when dealing with little kolohe knuckle heads all day. Cherish her...

This school is terrible and they do any math. I sent my kid here and I regret it he would come home…read moresaying how their math couldn't even add fractions so that's why i switched him to WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL BECAUSE IT IS BETTER

The school is amazing the staff are kind. I think that the school should be recognized as a better…read moreschool

This school has great historical references and aesthetics! When you enter the front office, they…read morehave a welcoming staff and a historic picture of the school from years ago. It is adjacent to the city park with large grassy field, baseball area and basketball area. The school had an improved rating from a "c" to a "b" as seen in the Honolulu magazine. Through word of mouth through the coconut hotline, Kawananakoa is the school you want to go to if you want to continue in a private school in the future. I am very pleased to say, this school is quite an educational place to be!

Student body comprised of those residing in Mānoa Valley, Makiki, Makiki Heights, Tantalus,…read morePapakōlea, Kalāwahine, Punchbowl, Pauoa, Pauoa Valley, Pacific Heights, and some from Nuʻuanu Valley too. Many students that lived outside of the district and had a GE were from Kāneohe, Kailua, Waimānalo to Wai'anae. There were also students who attended Iolani, Kamehameha and St. Louis, then transferred to Roosevelt. There are some staff and many students with different last names that are related to each other, have attended and still attend RHS. One day one of my grandma's cousins approached me. I later found out she was a cafeteria monitor during the day and custodian after school. Coming to think of it, I have relatives that graduated in the late 1970's till mid 2000's on my maternal side of the family. During Hawaiian studies class, a substitute teacher asked me, "Where do you live? What's your family name?" I responded. Then she said, "I graduated same year with your relative's name." I was quite surprised. There are currently many entrepreneurs, including those married to entrepreneurs so they help with other aspects of thriving businesses, alumni with successful careers in the public and private sector. Let's not forget about notable celebrities listed in Wikipedia. Hawaiian language classes offered and counted as foreign language credits toward college, along with Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish, and French. I vividly recall signing up first choice: Hawaiian, second choice: Spanish, third choice: Japanese. I remember getting my last choice while my other friends got Hawaiian and Spanish classes. My favorite instructors who definitely made an impact in my life were Mrs. Wells, English teacher who immersed us in reading, writing, grammar, spelling, and working together in class ranging from The Hobbit, Beowulf, Shakespeare, Hamlet, too many to name, and our last individual project and typed essay for the year, Les Miserables. School is known for their language arts. Fine Arts and Cooking teacher, Mrs. Fong. She was the one who encouraged me to consider applying for colleges to arts schools on the mainland. I've also enjoyed learning baked recipes. One of those recipes taught in class was how to make pumpkin pie. We had access to ovens, sinks, and clean counter tops. Fun, practical, and life learning skills. Japanese language sensei, Mrs. Fujinaka for teaching us one of the first things is, "Otearai e itte mo ii desu ka?" Translation in English, "May I please go to the restroom?" Reserved for when really got to go and having a brain fart. Hiragana, katakana, and some of the kanji ingrained in memory. Economics teacher, Mrs. Leung taught us how to write checks which I thought was cool as it applies to signing legal documents till this day. Sports was and still is an integral part of the student body. I remembered running between two to four old football field laps daily after school, where dirt would kick up and if wearing white shoes, would get dirty fast. I vividly recalled running snakes weekly on red and gold bleachers, north, south, east, and west, in no particular order. Legs would get jiggly or charley horse if out of shape. Yet, great cardio, conditioning for the body. Sports practices ended at 6 PM. Games on Saturdays either on or off campus. Loved the swimming pool especially during P.E. Earned school credits while working on a life skill. They're also known for their band. Many clubs offered on campus too. Enjoyed underground cafeteria, choice to eat indoor or outdoors. Cafeteria staff offered a choice of school lunch or chef salad. Limited parking. First come, first get in the morning at 7 AM. Some lessons I don't recall learning and wish instructors taught at that time were study skills, time management, and financial literacy. There were cliques here and there. Now, we're all grown peeps and if we run into each other in public, it's "Hey! How's it going?" followed with a hug and honi on the cheek.

I'm sure this is a great school, however, there has been a very loud siren or alarm coming from the…read morehigh school a few blocks away from where I live. It starts around 11 PM and continues until about 6 AM, making it difficult to sleep. I live over 30 floors up and can still hear it clearly, so I imagine it's affecting many people in the neighborhood. I'm not sure if others have reported it yet, but I hope this issue can be addressed and fixed soon.

Jan may have had a bad experience subbing, but my son has gone there 3 years and I love SEEQS. I…read morethink the teachers and staff are great, and my son has never had issues here compared to his other public schools where bullying was never addressed. I feel my son is safe at SEEQS and thats all that matters to me. He is learning as well and I like the way the think outside of the box to get the students to learn.

SEEQS is incredibly successful at helping its students feel happy, safe, and well-integrated into a…read morediverse and active community. If you're looking for a smaller school (150 some kids over the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades) with passionate and kindhearted teachers and staff, this is a good fit for you. Our son has learned so much there in his first two years. He has good friends, and I've also enjoyed getting to know their families. Many of the parents are active in the school, and there are a great many off-campus activities. I like the student-centered focus and the school's collaborative projects-based approach, too.

I attended UHS from pre-school through 11th grade, which was 1975-1988. Hopefully, any negative…read morethings I have to say are no longer relevant. I was skipped up a grade from 2nd to 3rd because I had finished all of the readers for 2nd grade. They had also done IQ testing on us, which I had assumed was part of their reasoning for moving me up; but, now I know that the results were... well, not high enough to justify skipping a grade, imo. When 6th grade began, there was an influx of students, and our class grew in size to 25. There was no supervision of students before school. I was called names (and sometimes had spit-balls thrown) every morning by my peers while walking down the hallway/gauntlet to class. I know now that being a year younger than my peers put me at a disadventage socially. I was incapable of dealing with the bullying that came my way. This continued daily for me through the beginning of 8th grade. I started misbehaving in 8th grade; I would say as a direct result of being "teased" for years. They sent me to weekly sessions with a psychology student from UH across the street. Hopefully he was at least a grad student! I told him I had had trouble with being teased. He gave me a book on shyness that said that shy people were being overly self-centered, because other people aren't really looking at us as much as we are afraid that they are. I love that we took art and music every day. The hula teacher was not a fan of white people. With such a diverse student population, wonderful things could have been done to address racism and other socio-economic differences. Instead, we dutifully split ourselves into groups along racial lines, grade after grade and year after year, when it came time to choose a language class, as well as other electives offered. Not because we were forced to. That was just what we did. I remember a girl one grade above me got pregnant and had to leave school; whereas the boy who was the father got to stay. Of course, he was part of the state champs basketball team so, you know, priorities. I remember our choir every year singing the exact same 8 songs as every other school choir on the island, because goodness knows there isn't enough music available out there. I remember sneaking in and smoking pot upstairs in the auditorium that burned down years later. I always wondered if something similar started that fire? Finally, my senior year, one of the teachers went to a strip bar and accidently discovered one of his students--my friend--dancing there (that has nothing to do with anything, I just thought it was funny).

I've been at this school from 6th through 9th grade, and I can honestly say that the math…read moredepartment is terrible. There is also discrimination among students. I have personally been treated well, but I have seen other students receive unfair treatment, and it is disgusting. The school complains about students, but it does not always treat students well in return. It feels one-sided: they treat us poorly and expect people not to care about how students are being treated. I talked with some students in 7th grade while I am in 9th grade. I had not even heard about some of the things they were dealing with, and it made me realize that the math department has been a problem for a long time. Other reviews say that students' education was poor and that they were being left behind as far back as 2009. In 2019, there were also concerns about education problems that had reportedly been happening for 17 years. During the 2025-2026 school year, we did not have a consistent math teacher. Our teacher quit, and we had two different substitutes and a counselor teaching us math. If you can enroll your child in another, more prestigious school, please do. If you want your child to have the best future and not be left behind, I would not recommend sending them to this school. Yes, some things are good, but it often feels like the school is more biased toward female students. In my experience, some teachers seem to treat boys unfairly. Anyway, have a great day.

Aloha bags are popular and it was very cool to find out they even made totes in Hawaiian print for…read moreMid Pac. We came today to check out what was available. Spent a pretty penny there. I'm not an alum but being the shopaholic that I am, it got the better of me. Happy with our purchases.

Many people are saying Mid-Pac athletics has a problem. I don't know, I'm just telling you what I…read moreheard. Very unfair what happened to me. The runner tripped me. The coaches watched. The officials did nothing. It's a disgrace. One star. Look into it.

Not sure why this is labeled Middle School since it is also High School, but I attended this school…read morefrom 7th-12th grades. It was an interesting experience, and as with all schools, had its bullies and challenges. Looking back, though, I can honestly say that I was very fortunate to go to a school with very caring teachers and a supportive family to push me through the tough times of being a teenager. I enjoyed volunteering in the library and cafeteria as well as playing on the tennis team and in the band. Singing in the choir and going on camps and trips was always a highlight. But most of all, the rigorous academic curriculum prepared me well for college courses. My then-fiance and I attended my 10 year reunion and flew in from Florida and it was nice to see some old classmates. Now that we're back in Hawaii I am volunteer- coaching the tennis team to give back to a program that I participated in for 6 years. Time sure flies!

What a great school to send your child. Not only will they be academically prepared for college,…read morebut spiritually equipped to spread the gospel. You will fall in love with the faculty and this school. It has everything your child could ever hope to have at a school. No more paying for extra curricular activities outside of school because they have it all. It is my desire to send my daughter to school here.

A private school which uses the traditions of Buddhist teachings in its curriculum. The curriculum…read moreis not as rigorous as what we're used to in California, and the disciplinary methods are a little unconventional but every child is different and this might work for your child(ren). Student/teacher ratio is pretty low which allows more attention towards the students. They have a wonderful program which allows kids to have breakfast with their parents before classes in the morning. Breakfasts are really cheap -- your basic local breakfast stuff: eggs, bacon/spam/Portuguese sausage, rice, cereal etc -- but it allows you to spend time with your kids before you rush off to work. Some of the teachers are inexperienced as they do hire new graduates to join their staff. My only gripe with this place is that they did not challenge the kids enough. My child was there for only half a year but there wasn't much homework and the curriculum was really more towards playing than learning. After we moved back to California, my child had a hard time keeping up at the new school where the curriculum was so much more rigid and intense. Strangely, Hongwanji is a private school and my child is now attending a public school. I had expected more from a private school!

I went to school here many many years ago. So I can't comment on the current curriculum or anything…read morerecent. But what I learned here was social interaction, community, religion, sports, and music. Because of Hongwanji and the YBA, I was a JPO, cub scout, boy scout, basketball player, and volleyball player. I learned how to serve lunch, clean up, and be a part of a team. I learned how to swim and 'jump rope for heart.' I learned how to budget my allowance by buying either the fried noodles or the Star Wars cards. I was a part of the 40K relay team and we were awarded the youngest team. I marched in a competition. I went to Disneyland. I got in to a lot of trouble but it was the teachers who cared about everyone that kept me from being an outright delinquent. Thank you Mr. Date, Mrs. Kimura, Shannon's Mom, and Mrs. Endo. They also stimulated my love of reading. And last but not least, the Hongwanji cookbooks are my most used especially when I'm ono for some comfort food. I learned how to cook because of these Hongwanji cookbook. Back then it really was a village raising each and every child.

from the review of "AIden W" I remember asking what was wrong. It was because you were moved to…read morewhere my friend and I were. I got in trouble and had to move. I got yelled at for simply asking what's wrong, and after that, I was just talking with my friend, and after a bit, we got yelled at to get our "shit" out of there

as a former student at Kaimuki middle school I'd like to say that this schools way of dealing with…read moresafety of students is HORRIBLE there we're constantly fights going on and a girl got in many and she was never punished farther then a day out of school suspended. this school is also horrible with dealing with smoking and vaping absolutely horrible, also the 8th grade vice principal goes why to hard on kids for just living.