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Campbell High School

91-980 North Road, Ewa Beach, HI, 96706-2746 -

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Definition of Terms

Campbell High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Honolulu County, HI

Students & Faculty

Total Students

2283 students

% Male / % Female

51% / 49%

Total Classroom Teachers

130 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 712 students

Grade 10 - 645 students

Grade 11 - 515 students

Grade 12 - 403 students

Grade Not Listed - 8 students

This School

( HI ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:18

1:15

Students by Ethnicity

This School

( HI ) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	1%
% Asian	80%	72%
% Hispanic	4%	5%
% Black	3%	2%
% White	13%	21%

Additional Student Information

This School

( HI ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

25%

32%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

11%

12%

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

( HI ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Hawaii Dept Of Education School District

This School's Agency

( HI ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	285	0
Number of Students Managed	180,293 students	n/a
District Total Revenue	$2,274,166,000	n/a
District Expenditure	$1,765,805,000	n/a
District Revenue / Student	$12,614	-
District Expenditure / Student	$9,794	-
District Graduation Rates	79%	n/a

James Campbell High School, often simply Campbell High School or JCHS, is a public coeducational high school located at 91-980 North Road in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, 25 miles away from Downtown Honolulu. James Campbell High School is not to be confused with Campbell High School (Symrna, Georgia), or Campbell City School's Campbell High School (Campbell, Ohio).
And is part of the Leeward Subdistrict of the Hawaii State Department of Education. It also serves children of Department of Defense employees that live in military housing in Ewa Beach, Ewa and Iroquois Point. Over half of the students are of Asian or Pacific Islander descent.
Although the school has had a generally unpleasant reputation, its students would agree that the campus itself has taken up great strides towards success. The school�s educational program, Smaller Learning Communities (SLC), hopes to specifically help students in a chosen career pathway, thus benefiting students in precise occupational skills for the future. The school has a variety of programs such as agriculture, marine science, newspaper, yearbook, and television production media, most of which are beginning to retain excellence. James Campbell High School has indeed a promising future.
History: The school is named after development tycoon James Campbell who was at the forefront of Ewa's prosperous progression into a sugar cane plantation communitiy. James Campbell immigrated from Ireland to the United States at the age of 13 and worked as a carpenter. After two years, he began work on a whaling ship in the South Pacific which became shipwrecked. Fortunately he survived this dilemma and lived in Tahiti until he boarded another whaling vessel bound for Maui, Hawaii. He then ventured into real estate, buying a large arrid area of land in Ewa, Oahu, Hawaii. Many believed his investment to be a waste of profits due to the dry and unproductive climate of Ewa, but his artesian well had changed the landscape into a thriving sugar cane plantation. From this, his legacy continues in the community, as well as in the high school.
James Campbell High School was once located at a nearby school, which is presently a neighboring junior high school, Ilima Intermediate. Since its establishment in 1962, the school has grown throughout the years to accommodate the increasing population of the Ewa area. James Campbell High School is currently the second largest school (in terms of population) in the Leeward District of Oahu, Hawaii.
Campus: There are nine academic buildings on the campus. With that, there are two portable complexes which serve as extra classrooms, an administration building, a cafeteria, locker rooms for both genders (as well as an additional football locker room), and a gym (complete with a basketball and volleyball court). The school also houses a football field surrounded by a dirt track and a baseball field.
Smaller Learning Communities: Along with the change in bell schedule, James Campbell High School also has undergone an academic adjustment. The Smaller Learning Communities (or aptly SLC) are academies within the school curriculum which are divided into distinct sections according to workforce divisions (i.e. health, media, etc.).
There are four SLC groups within James Campbell's school curriculum:
Arts and Communication.
Business and Health.
Industrial and Engineering Technology.
Public Human Services and Natural Resources.
Students are placed into a SLC group by preference and his or her classes are then geared towards that specific area of study. For instance, a student in the Arts and Communication SLC will have social studies classes that will include topics relevant to that SLC.
Clubs and Organizations: Along with James Campbell High School's varied curicullum, the school possesses a wide gamut of clubs and organizations that cater to the diverse interests of the student body. All "official" clubs must be chartered by the Student Association.
Here is a complete list of "official" clubs and organizations within the campus:
Achievement, Compassion, Education, Service (ACES); Art Club; Automotive Club; Band; Christian Club; Color Guard; Drama Club; Saber Dance Team; Distributive Clubs of America (DECA); Ewa Naupaka (Newspaper); Family Career Community of America (FCCLA); Future Farmers of America (FFA); Filipino-American Club (Fil-Am); Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs Club (GEAR-UP); Graphics Club; Hiking Club; Japan Club; Leadership Experience Opportunity (LEO); Letterman's Club; Literary Connections Club (LitCon); Literary Magazine (annual publication called thINK); Math Club; Medical Careers Club; Mock Trial; National Honor Society (NHS); String Ensemble; Student Association (SA); Television Production (SaberMedia Productions); Peer Education; Photography Club; Pohaku Makamae (Yearbook); Naval Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (NJROTC); Universal Fundamentals of Science (UFO); Video Club (SaberMedia Productions).
Athletics: Campbell High School also has an array of sports for its students. These activities include: Air Riflery, Varsity and JV Baseball, Boys and Girls Varsity and JV Basketball, Varsity and JV Cheerleading, Boys and Girls Cross Country, Varsity and JV Football, Golf, Judo, Paddling, Girls Varsity and JV Soccer, Boys Soccer, Soft Tennis, Varsity and JV Softball, Swimming, Track and Field, Varsity and JV Tennis, Girls Varsity and JV Volleyball, Boys Volleyball, Varsity and JV Wrestling.
Distinctions: The James Campbell Naval Junior Reserve Officers' Traning Corps. (NJROTC) has been awarded the distinguished unit title for seven consecutive years.
In 2003, the school was the first Leeward O?ahu school to place first in the Math Bowl competition. Presently, Campbell High School is the only Leeward school to have such a title.
The school's current principal, Dr. Gail Awakuni, was awarded National Principal of the Year 2004-2005.
The varsity football team won the OIA White and Division II State Championship in 2004.
The high school is one of a handful of schools in the United States selected as a model school. This selection is based on Campbell's academic curriculum and innovative school and community-related programs.
Traditions: James Campbell's original pupils were from Waipahu High School, a nearby high school in the city of Waipahu, Hawai'i. Despite this fact, Campbell and Waipahu have been rivals since the school's founding. This has led to a football rivalry between the two schools. Every year, both schools compete in a football game, often called the "The Cane Knife Classics", for the coveted Cane Knife�a trophy fashioned after a blade made for cutting sugar cane.
Miscellaneous: James Campbell's alma mater is the second longest in all of Hawaii's high schools.
Its library also serves as the community library, under the Hawaii State Library System.
Former student, Braxton Olita, is currently dating singer Ashlee Simpson.
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About This Zip Code (96706)

School Zip (96706)

(HI) State Average

Population (Approximate)

43,874 people

1,190,992 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

28%

30%

Population Average Age

31 years old

36.2 years old

Average Household size

3.7 persons

2.8 persons

Median Household Income

$57,525

$51,948

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

4.9 rooms

4.5 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

19 years old

36 years old

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% Owning / % Renting

68% / 32%

56% / 44%

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