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Kindergarten
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31

Grades 4 & 5
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15

Grades 6 - 12
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31

Grades 1 - 3
Feb

15

Financial Aid Application

Welcome to Punahou, a vibrant K - 12 community where children flourish through discovery, collaboration and creative exploration. Guided by caring, accomplished teachers, our students find many paths to success.

Our 76-acre campus offers facilities such as the Kosasa Community for Grades 2-5, featuring spacious studio classrooms and gardens; design and fabrication labs abuzz with invention; dedicated visual and performing arts spaces; and expansive athletic facilities. Whatever their interests, children find wide-open opportunities to explore who they are.

At Punahou, students gain the confidence and resilience they need to successfully navigate college, careers and life. The friendships and connections they make on campus create bonds that last a lifetime. We hope you will consider starting your child’s unique journey at Punahou.

How do you envision your child's classroom?

Kindergarten

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4th Grade

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6th Grade

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9th Grade

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At Punahou, we embrace school, life and the world as one big classroom.

And we believe every moment, person, conversation and experience holds the potential to help us discover new perspectives and to shape our own lifetime journeys.
A classroom for finding his place.

From second to fifth grade at Punahou, it’s all about connections: How does the past inform his present? How do the things he uses each day work, and what can he learn from that? How can he use his imagination to invent new tools and techniques?

His questions inform his study of our island home and his kuleana to it, along with his responsibility to continue exploring new paths and challenging himself.

His teachers show him that his ideas and opinions hold weight and it’s through his further inquiries that he creates deeper understanding.
A classroom for choosing his own adventure.

In Middle School, he’s still a fun and funny child – and we let him be. We also know that his mind is constantly wondering (and sometimes wandering.)

So his teachers give him just enough direction and focus to continue fostering his questions, his explorations and his ever-expanding opinions and conclusions.

All while preparing him to make thoughtful choices during his high-school experience and to continuously find happiness in his learning.
A classroom for owning her choices.

By 9th grade, we give our Academy student charge over her schedule, opening a new world of opportunities and resources for her own her learning.

She can travel abroad for leadership or deeper study, start an organization to help her community, pursue music and mathematics, physiology and art, Hawaiian language and human behavior - or all of them throughout her Academy years.

How to Apply
The Punahou School admission application for Kindergarten through grade 12 for the 2021 – 2022 school year is available online.
Affording a Punahou Education
Financial aid is a priority at Punahou because it helps to create a diverse student body, representative of the Hawai‘i community, each member of which contributes to the learning experience of all Punahou students.