Honolulu County · Hawaii
Honolulu, HI public schools
Enrollment, school count, staffing and per-pupil spending for Hawaii Department of Education — federal education data, not a star rating.
Quick answer
Hawaii Department of Education is the primary public district for Honolulu, HI. It enrolls 170,209 students in 295 schools with 11,983 full-time-equivalent teachers, and spends $17,656 per pupil, 2% above the $17,320 median across the metros covered here.
- Students enrolled
- 170,209NCES Common Core of Data, 2021-22
- Schools in the district
- 295Operating school count
- Students per teacher
- 14.2Enrollment ÷ FTE teachers, not class size
- Spending per pupil
- $17,656Total current expenditure, FY2020
Who pays for schools in Honolulu
Where the district's money comes from, FY2020.
- Local revenue
- 0.6%
- $19,108,000
- State revenue
- 88%
- $2,851,764,000
- Federal revenue
- 11.4%
- $371,018,000
Local revenue is mostly property tax, which is why the Honolulu property tax rate and school funding move together. Of every dollar spent, about 57 cents reaches instruction — teacher salaries, benefits and classroom materials — with the rest covering transport, buildings, food service and administration.
What this data covers
Read this before comparing districts.
Figures describe Hawaii Department of Education (LEAID 1500030) as a whole, not any individual school. Charter schools authorised outside the district, private schools and regional vocational schools are not included. Where a city is served by a county-wide district, the county district is used and its catchment is wider than the city limits. Enrollment is from the 2021-22 NCES collection; money is from the FY2020 Census school finance survey, which is the most recent complete national release — the two years do not line up exactly, so per-pupil spending is a stable indicator rather than a current budget line.
Keep going
Other Honolulu data on this site.
NCES LEAID 1500030. Finance figures are Census Annual Survey of School System Finances (F-33) totals as redistributed by the Urban Institute Education Data API.