Hawaii Technology Academy - PCS
Waipahu · HI · Hawaii Department of Education · Public charter · K-12 combined
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- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 1 calculus classes
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 29% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Top 4.4% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 87% (Bottom 39% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Hawaii Technology Academy - PCS compares for families
What families should know about Hawaii Technology Academy - PCS.
- ▸ LocallyHI trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Lanakila Baptist Schools, Waipahu High School, Pearl Harbor Christian Academy and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Limited — narrow advanced curriculum
Bottom 29% of US high schools
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Top 4.4% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 39% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +12.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,924 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $18,374 per student in district revenue, the 1,494 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $27,450,756/year in additional funding.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lanakila Baptist Schools Waipahu |
Private | 0.6 | 141 | +104.3% |
| Waipahu High School Waipahu |
Public | 0.9 | 2,511 | -8.9% |
| Pearl Harbor Christian Academy Waipahu |
Private | 1.9 | 165 | +8.6% |
| Lanakila Baptist Jr & Sr High School Ewa Beach |
Private | 3.7 | 81 | -48.1% |
| Hanalani Schools Mililani |
Private | 3.7 | 653 | -4.3% |
| Friendship Christian School Ewa Beach |
Private | 3.7 | 215 | -6.5% |
| Calvary Chapel Christian School Aiea |
Private | 3.9 | 171 | +0.6% |
| Friendship Christian Schools Ewa Beach |
Private | 4.0 | 247 | +8.3% |