School districts in Hawaii
Hawaii is run as a single school system: Hawaii Department of Education covers the whole state, all 95 ZIP Code areas with homes in them. There is nothing to disagree about here, and no lookup is needed — the answer is the same at every address.
How many school districts are in Hawaii?
1: the Census boundary file draws one school district in Hawaii that reaches a ZIP Code area with homes, Hawaii Department of Education, a unified district, and it reaches 97 ZIP Code areas. A school district lookup by ZIP Code here gives that one name, and what it still has to say is how many of the homes counted the file puts inside it: find your school district by ZIP code.
One district, one state
The state sits well below the national rate of 53%. Hawaii Department of Education alone covers 561,029 homes, and districts that size swallow whole postal areas rather than splitting them. Not one of its 95 ZIP Code areas crosses a district line.
- ZIP Code areas with a district95
- Served by more than one district0 (0%)
- Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
- No high school district named0
- Unified districts1
- Elementary districts0
- Secondary districts0
- Homes in no district at all0
Where a single district name still works in Hawaii
Across the 95 ZIP Code areas in Hawaii with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 0 of the 561,029 homes they hold: in 95 of the areas the largest district for the early grades holds every home counted. The areas below are the first by ZIP Code.
ZIP Code 96701 · Pearl City, Hawaii is served end to end by Hawaii Department of Education: one district for all 15,453 homes counted there, as in every one of the 95 areas in Hawaii.
ZIP Code 96703 · Anahola, Hawaii is served end to end by Hawaii Department of Education: one district for all 926 homes counted there, as in every one of the 95 areas in Hawaii.
ZIP Code 96704 · Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii is served end to end by Hawaii Department of Education: one district for all 3,012 homes counted there, as in every one of the 95 areas in Hawaii.
The largest ZIP Code areas here
Not one of the 95 ZIP Code areas in Hawaii that the federal file names a district for is served by more than one of them: one district covers each of those postal areas by itself. The 12 areas below are the largest by homes, and each one opens the full answer for that ZIP Code.
- ZIP Code 96706 · East Kapolei, Hawaii1 district · 23,148 homes
- ZIP Code 96815 · Urban Honolulu, Hawaii1 district · 22,946 homes
- ZIP Code 96817 · Urban Honolulu, Hawaii1 district · 21,850 homes
- ZIP Code 96797 · Royal Kunia, Hawaii1 district · 21,725 homes
- ZIP Code 96816 · Urban Honolulu, Hawaii1 district · 20,363 homes
- ZIP Code 96822 · Urban Honolulu, Hawaii1 district · 19,738 homes
- ZIP Code 96744 · Waiahole-Waikane, Hawaii1 district · 19,649 homes
- ZIP Code 96789 · Mililani Town, Hawaii1 district · 19,244 homes
- ZIP Code 96720 · Hilo, Hawaii1 district · 18,655 homes
- ZIP Code 96740 · Kaiminani, Hawaii1 district · 18,411 homes
- ZIP Code 96734 · Kailua, Hawaii1 district · 18,378 homes
- ZIP Code 96818 · Hickam Housing, Hawaii1 district · 17,951 homes
What to do next
Ask the district office to confirm your street address: look on its site for a school locator, a find my school tool or an attendance zone map, or call the office.
A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: 0 of the 95 ZIP Code areas in Hawaii with a district named for them are served by more than one school district, and the line between two of them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.
District websites and phone numbers here come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory, 2024-25 school year, filed under the same district ID as the Census boundary files. Where it lists no usable website, none is printed rather than guessed.
If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.
Where these numbers come from
The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file, so a fast-growing area may have changed since; ZIP Codes here are the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; a share is a share of homes, not the chance that one address is in a district; and a district is not a school attendance zone. Every source, file and caveat is on the method page.