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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Waiakea Intermediate School, Hilo, HI

Waiakea Intermediate School is a public middle school in Hilo, part of Hawaii Department of Education. It enrolled 857 students in 2024-25, with 15.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
857
Teachers (FTE)
55.0
Students per teacher
15.6
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.9 higher than the district figure of 13.7. The Hawaii average across schools is 14.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.6
District13.7
Hawaii14.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
200 W Puainako St, Hilo, HI 96720
Phone
(808)981-7231
District
Hawaii Department of Education
County
Honolulu County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Remote
NCES school ID
150003000053
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
357
Reduced-price lunch
67
Free or reduced-price lunch
42449.5% of enrollment.
Direct certification
277Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Hawaii Department of Education

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.