Moanalua High School

Moanalua High School
Address
2825 Ala Ilima Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96818 United States
Information
Type	Public
Motto	"Kulia I Ka Nu'u"
Established	1972
School district	Central District
Principal	Robin Martin
Faculty	116 (approx.)
Grades	9-12
Number of students	2,020 (approx.)
Campus	Suburban
Color(s)	Royal Blue and White
Athletics	Oahu Interscholastic Association
Mascot	Nā Menehune
Rival	Admiral Arthur W. Radford High School
Accreditation	Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Newspaper	Nā Hōkū O Moanalua
Yearbook	Ke Ali'i
Military	United States Air Force JROTC
Website	Official website

Moanalua High School is a public, co-educational college preparatory high school of the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education and serves grades nine through twelve. Established in 1972 and graduated its first class in 1975, Moanalua High School is located in suburban Salt Lake near Moanalua in the City & County of Honolulu of the state of Hawaiʻi. It is situated on an extinct volcano hillside overlooking downtown Honolulu at 2825 Ala ʻIlima Street. The campus boasts the bronze sculpture Moanalua by Bumpei Akaji and the ceramic sculpture Silent Sounds by Shigeharu Yamada.

Moanalua High School (also known as MoHS to differentiate itself from the "MHS", acronyms associated with McKinley High School and Mililani High School), is nationally recognized for its academics, music program and media communications learning center.

Moanalua High School recently underwent reaccreditation by Western Association of Schools and Colleges and has achieved the maximum accreditation term of six years, 2012-2018.

Robin Martin is currently heads the school as principal (Darrel Galera left Moanalua in 2012), along with Wilbert Lum and Flora Nash as vice-principals.

An ahupuaʻa in ancient Hawaiʻi was a parcel of land that stretched from the mountain to the sea. The ahupuaʻa of Moanalua was the property of wealthy landowner Samuel M. Damon.

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