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Lili‘uokalani Elementary School
To add to the confusion, the parent-teacher association for the Kaimukī school called itself the Liholiho Parent Teachers Association of Cum- mins School. Finally, in 1935, the Kaimukī school became known as Liholiho Elementa- ry School.
School principal Frank Fernandes is the lon- gest-serving Hawai‘i school principal at a single school with more than 36 years of service at Kaimukī Middle.
Today, the former school is used as office space by the state.
To avoid confusion, a com- promise was attempted in which the intermediate school
Kaimukī Middle School
Originally, Kaimukī High School occupied this 18th Avenue site until 1949, when Kaimukī High moved to its current location be-
Contact state Rep. Ber- trand Kobayashi (D-20 — Wai‘alae, Kāhala, Kaimukī, Ka‘alāwai and Kapahulu) at 808-586-6310 or repko- bayashi@capitol.hawaii.gov.
Liholiho Elementary School
Located at 18th and Kīlauea avenues, this school
This school was originally
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Kaimukī was the larg- est residential sub- division in Hawai‘i more than 100 years ago. As such, it has schools with fas- cinating histories, some of which are outlined below.
This was Kaimukī’s first school, which opened in 1912, and was dedicated in person by Queen Lydia Lili‘uokala- ni, Hawai‘i’s last monarch. It closed in May 2011 because of low enrollment. Located at the intersection of Wai‘alae and Koko Head avenues, this
STATE. REP BERTRAND KOBAYASHI
A Brief History Of Some Of East O‘ahu’s Schools
known as Cummins School. It was built in 1926, as was Washington Intermediate School in McCully, which was also sometimes called Cummins School. Back then, the Territorial gov- ernment had a difference of opinion about the name for Washington Intermediate School. The Territorial gov- ernment called it Washing- ton Intermediate, while the board of supervisors called the school Cummins Inter- mediate.
site once housed a small zoo with exotic and not-so-exotic animals, one of which was a donkey with painted stripes to look like a zebra, until the stripes were washed away by rain. The purpose of this zoo was to attract people to Kaimukī — then a far-away suburb — and to increase rid- ership of the electric trolley built in 1903, which terminat- ed at Koko Head Avenue.
would be named Washington Intermediate and the elemen- tary school in Kaimukī would be named Cummins School. Unfortunately, the compro- mise was not accepted.
was established in 1939 and was known as Kaimukī In- termediate School with sev- enth- to ninth-grade students until 1997, when its name was changed to Kaimukī Middle School with sixth- to eighth- grade students.
tween Kaimukī Avenue and Date Street.
The change was initiated by Honolulu district school superintendent Margaret Oda. Today, Honolulu dis- trict is the only school district with middle schools.
Note: State Rep. Bertrand Kobayashi attended Liholiho Elementary and Kaimukī In- termediate schools.
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