Kauluhala Summer Academy is our newly designed space for summer in-person and online learning through courses offered for credit advancement for high school students seeking to earn required and/or elective credit(s) for the 2025-2026 school year. Using their knowledge and skills, ‘ōiwi learners are guided and empowered to access, explore, and apply ancestral and modern perspectives and practices to the impacts of today affecting Kanaka, Kaiāulu, ‘āina, and the world.

Kauluhala Summer Academy builds and extends upon the ʻike mauli (foundational knowledge) through ways of knowing extended beyond the regular school year and allows students to prepare for what is beyond high school through college, career, and life-learning educational opportunities. The Kula Kiʻekiʻe program creates pathways of learning opportunities upon which a student can travel upon knowing their own ‘ike mauli in setting their course in their high school career. A meheu refers to the trails that were traveled by those before us. A meheu can be smooth, trodden, or beaten – yet it honors those who have come before as both a level of respect and a catalyst to move progressively forward. Kula Kiʻekiʻe courses are designed to help haumāna travel down one or more of these three meheu:

• Meheu Poʻokela - Academic Excellence Trail

• Meheu ‘Oihana   - Experiential Trail

• Meheu Honua - Global readiness and Online Trail

All students in grades 9-12  will receive a final report card with letter grades A–F for credited courses. 

For Not Current KS Hawai‘i Students: A copy of the student's credit level grades will be sent to the school that the student will attend in July/August of 2025 as designated on the application form. You will make this request at the time you are accepted/enrolled in Kauluhala (March/April).

Prior to registration, not current KS Hawai‘i students should contact their home school counselor or registrar to confirm credit eligibility for Kauluhala courses. 

For Current KS Hawai‘i students: Grades of D and below will be reviewed by the KSH HS administration and its impact on repeating the course during the regular school year and impact  Academic Probation.