HONOLULU — Maui High School is bracing for years of overcrowding with record enrollment expected for the upcoming school year.
HONOLULU — Maui High School is bracing for years of overcrowding with record enrollment expected for the upcoming school year.
The campus in Kahului is expecting more than 2,000 students, including about 600 freshmen, when school starts next month, Hawaii News Now reported Wednesday.
“It’s going to be a huge challenge for us. We had to move people around this past summer and relook at our academics,” Principal Jamie Yap said. “Hopefully, we’re set up enough where we can take care of everybody with the space that we have.”
The school has found space by removing its daycare center and setting up portable buildings to use as classrooms. The campus has more than 30 portables, Yap said.
“As the school continued to grow, they kept putting portables on the campus with the idea that when Kihei High School gets built, that some of these portables will be taken away,” Yap said.
The new high school was initially targeted to open in 2014 to alleviate overcrowding at Maui High School, but the construction timeline was pushed back multiple times. The state now expects the first phase of the new school to be completed by August 2021. The school is expected to serve about 800 students.
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Information from: KGMB-TV, http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/
