Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate

Kamehameha Schools
Seal of Kamehameha Schools
Address
1887 Makuakāne Street Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96817 United States
Information
Type	Private, College-prep Day & Boarding
Motto	I Mua Kamehameha (Forward, Kamehameha)
Religious affiliation(s)	Nondenominational Protestant
Established	1887
Founder	Bernice Pauahi Bishop
Headmaster	Earl T. Kim (Kapālama), Holoua Stender (Hawaiʻi), Lee Ann DeLima (Maui)
Grades	P–12
Enrollment	5,416
Campus	3: Kapālama, Honolulu; Pukalani, Maui; Kea'au, Hawaiʻi
Campus size	600 acres (2.4 km2) (Kapālama) 180 acres (0.73 km2) (Maui) 300 acres (1.2 km2) (Hawaiʻi)
Color(s)	Blue      White
Song	Sons of Hawaiʻi
Fight song	I Mua Kamehameha
Athletics conference	Interscholastic League of Honolulu Division I
Team name	Warriors
Accreditation	Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Newspaper	Ka Mōʻī
Yearbook	Ka Naʻi Aupuni
Distinctions	Largest endowment of all secondary schools in the United States. As of June 30, 2015, the endowment was estimated at $11.1 billion.
Website	www.ksbe.edu

Kamehameha Schools, formerly called Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate (KSBE), is a private school system in Hawaiʻi established by the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate, under the terms of the will of Bernice Pauahi Bishop, who was a formal member of the House of Kamehameha. Bishop's will established a trust called the "Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate" that is Hawaiʻi's largest private landowner. Originally established in 1887 as an all-boys school for native Hawaiian children, it shared its grounds with the Bishop Museum. After it moved to another location, the museum took over two school halls. Kamehameha Schools opened its girls' school in 1894. It became coeducational in 1965. The 600-acre (2.4 km²) Kapālama campus opened in 1931, while the Maui and Hawaiʻi campuses opened in 1996 and 2001, respectively.

It was developed at the bequest of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop to educate children of Hawaiian descent, and is designed to serve students from preschool through twelfth grade. The school teaches in the English language a college-prep education enhanced by Hawaiian culture, language and practices, imparting historical and practical value of continuing Hawaiian traditions. It operates 31 preschools statewide and three grade K–12 campuses in Kapālama, Oʻahu, Pukalani, Maui, and Keaʻau, Hawaiʻi.

By the terms of its founding, the schools' admissions policy prefers applicants with Native Hawaiian ancestry. Since 1965 it has excluded all but two non-Hawaiians from being admitted. A lawsuit challenging the school's admission policy resulted in a narrow victory for Kamehameha in the Ninth Circuit Court; however, Kamehameha ultimately settled, paying the plaintiff $7 million.