Overview

Henry J. Kaiser High School, opened in 1971 and named for industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, is a public high school in the Hawaii Kai community of East Honolulu, part of the statewide Hawaii Department of Education (Hawaii operates a single, statewide school district rather than many local ones). It's accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and designated an International Baccalaureate World School, with a U.S. Air Force JROTC program.

Academics

No independently verified Hawaii state assessment data (via the Strive HI system) was located for this profile; check the Hawaii Department of Education's site directly for current school-level results.

Neighborhood

The school is located in Hawaii Kai, a planned residential community in East Honolulu.

Crime & safety

Unlike most schools profiled so far in this directory, we found a specific, favorable neighborhood-level match here: multiple independent crime-mapping sources specifically name Hawaii Kai as one of Honolulu's safer neighborhoods, with an A- grade, in contrast to Honolulu's citywide average, which several sources describe as elevated (one puts the citywide rate 137% above the national average with a D grade; another gives Honolulu a more moderate B- grade, safer than the state average). Sources agree the city's higher-crime areas are concentrated in dense tourist/commercial corridors like Waikiki, Downtown, and Ala Moana/Kakaako -- a different part of the city from Hawaii Kai.

This is the clearest positive case in this directory so far: independent sources specifically and consistently identify this school's actual neighborhood as safer than the city average, not just "citywide data we're applying without confirmation." We're still not converting this into a numeric rating (see below), but the qualitative picture here is more reliable than most other profiles in this directory.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score. Even with a favorable, neighborhood-specific safety signal here, academic data isn't independently verified for this profile, so only 1 of 3 possible components has real data -- still below our threshold for showing a number. See our ratings methodology.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, "Henry J. Kaiser High School (Hawaii)," cross-checked against NCES ID 150003000228.
  2. Nextdoor Neighbors resource page, Honolulu crime and safety, 2026.
  3. CrimeGrade.org, Honolulu overall-crime analysis, 2025.
  4. DoorProfit.com, Honolulu crime statistics and neighborhood map (Hawaii Kai grade specifically), citing FBI UCR data, 2026.