Pearl City High School School Improvement Status

Summary of Progress

In SY 2023-2024, Pearl City High School, through its school-wide academy model, remained committed to providing all students with relevant and authentic learning experiences to prepare them for life beyond high school in accordance with the school’s mission and vision of a Charger graduate. To ensure that students are college and/or career ready, Pearl City High School continued to strengthen its three academies, refine and implement the Data-Driven Instructional Cycle, and implement Project Based Learning activities.

Strengthen College and Career Academies

Each academy, and the programs of study within each academy, identified priority areas to address during the school year based on the findings from the 2022 NCAC review.
Created additional WBL and Early College Opportunities.
Hosted various campus visitations for HIDOE schools to in-service visiting staff about the PCHS academy initiative.
Host NCAC Insite Onsite and CALC visitations for visiting schools interested in learning more about PCHS’s academy implementation process.
Held the 4th Annual Charger Showcase, Chargerpalooza, a student-led presentation of learning.
Updated and refined the College and Career Continuum to further integrate the academic core departments in the delivery of the continuum.

Refine and Implement the Data-Driven Instructional Cycle

School-wide Learner Needs were incorporated into the Data-Driven Instructional Cycles.
Professional Development, Modeling, and Coaching on high-impact instruction with a focus on literacy strategies provided.
Assessment data (STAR, SBAC, Biology EOC) disaggregated and analyzed to inform instruction.
Adaptive Tier 2 instruction provided to high-needs students based on STAR universal screener data.

Support and Implement PBL

School-wide Learner Needs addressed in the PBL projects.
Weekly Coaching and Support provided to elective teachers implementing PBL projects.
Student presentations to authentic audiences both within the school and in the community.

Other successes include

increasing the number of Early College courses taken by students to 345 in SY 2023-24,
the Class of 2024 Business Management Cohort earning their Certificate of Achievement in Management from Leeward Community College,
increasing the number of students earning CTE Honors recognition from 49 in SY 2022-23 to 91 in SY 2023-24, and
increasing the percentage of students proficient in the Biology End-of-Course Exam by nearly 20% in SY 2023-24.