Hawaii Preparatory Academy

As a student at Hawaii Preparatory Academy, you will have access to resident teachers seven days a week, to indoor tennis and student recreation centers, to a swimming pool designed for international, collegiate, and high school competition, to full visual and performing arts facilities, to a 100 percent wireless computer campus. You will be challenged by our very rigorous academic program which includes 15 Advanced Placement courses in the Upper School. The multinational students live, learn, and play in the midst of the world's most diverse ecosystem. Our unique location offers amazing access to activities found together nowhere else on earth, see below examples of activities:

Scuba diving with scientists to study Hawaiian sea turtles.

Learning to ride horses on our 220-acre Upper School campus.

Surfing before school in the morning, and visiting an active volcano in the same afternoon.

Hiking steep rainforest hills and remote black sand beaches.

Strong college preparatory program with unique program offerings in environmental and marine sciences. Welcome to Hawaii Preparatory Academy!

Academic and Sport Facilities

Each building is a different subject, there is a chapel, art building (ceramics, photography, drawing, painting), robotics building, performing arts theatre seating 375, music building with 2 private practice rooms, information technology building with 3 computer labs.

4 covered tennis courts, heated outdoor swimming pool with a hot tub, track, gymnasium, wrestling room, numerous fields for equestrian, football, soccer, etc.

Dormitories and School Residences

There are 3 dorms on campus. 2 students to a dorm room with internet access, one phone with voice mail, laundry facilities, room with sink and microwave, showering facility, a common area with TV/DVD and fireplace, 5 apple computers with printer.

Starting Dates:

Fall Semester: Early September, Spring Semester: Beginning of January

Religious Affiliation:

None
 

Foreign Languages:

French
Hawaiian
Japanese
Spanish
 

Arts:

Ceramics, Drama, Music, Photography, Web Design, Woodshop

AP Courses:

Art History
Biology
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Chemistry
English Language and Composition
English Literature and Composition
Environmental Science
European History
French Language and Culture
Japanese Language and Culture
Physics
Psychology
Spanish Language and Culture
Statistics
Studio Art
U.S. History
World History

Sports:

Baseball
Basketball
Cross Country
Diving
Equestrian
Football
Golf
Soccer
Softball
Swimming
Tennis
Track and Field
Volleyball
Water Polo
Wrestling

Extracurricular Activities & Clubs:

Ambassadors
Dance
Environmental
Fencing
Literary Magazine
Math
Photography
Robotics
Student Council

SAT Average:

1628

University Acceptance Rate:

100%

Partial List of College and University Acceptances:

• Alliant University, Arizona State University, Azusa Pacific University, Boston College, Boston University, Butler University, California State University, California Polytechnic University, Dennison University, Foothills College, Fullerton College, Hamilton College, Humboldt State University, Johnson and Wales College, Lewis and Clark College, Loyola-Marymount University, Marymount College, Menlo College, Michigan State University, New York University, Northern Arizona University, Northeastern University, Occidental College, Oregon State University, Pacific University, Penn State, Pitzer College, Purdue University, Suffolk University, Temple University, Tulane University, University of Arizona, University of California, University of Hawaii, University of the Pacific, University of Puget Sound, University of Southern California, University of Washington, Whittier College, Woodbury University, Xavier University.

Closest International and Local Airports:

Kona International Airport (KOA)