Hilo High School School Improvement Status

Summary of Progress

Hilo High School aimed to empower our students for college, career, and community readiness during the 2023-24 academic year. Here’s a look at our key accomplishments:

Implementation of our Upper Career Academies: A significant step was the implementation of the upper three career academies. They are the Academy of Business & Natural Resources (BNR), the Academy of Construction & Engineering (ACE), and Health & Human Services (HHS). This initiative provides students with focused career pathways in their sophomore, junior, and senior years and aligns with the school’s vision of preparing students for success beyond graduation.
Content Standards Training: The ELA and Math departments participated in professional development focused on their respective content standards. Both departments identified the most crucial standards, known as priority standards.
Collaboration with Steele Dynamics: Steele Dynamics is an educational consulting firm that supports our school with school improvement planning and initiative implementation.

Concerning college and career readiness, three-year data trends continue to show that HHS boosts student readiness through early college, i.e., dual-credit participants (students who enrolled in college-level courses during high school). The number of Career Technical Education (CTE) participants continues to grow along with the number of students receiving CTE honors. HHS has been reorganized into academies to expand career exploratory opportunities for students.

This year’s graduating class saw sixteen (16) seniors with GPAs of 4.0+. These valedictorians will be attending colleges such as the University of Southern California Los Angeles, the University of California at Irvine, the California Polytechnic State University, the University of Oregon in Eugene, the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, and the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

In summary, the class of 2024 saw forty-one (41) students recognized as Summa Cum Laude (GPA: 3.8+), thirty-two (32) students recognized as Magna Cum Laude (GPA: 3.5+) and thirty-six (36) students recognized as Cum Laude
(GPA: 3.0+).