President William McKinley High School, more commonly referred to as McKinley High School, is a

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in the Honolulu District of the

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. It serves grades nine through twelve. McKinley is one of three schools in the

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which includes

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and Roosevelt High School. It was founded as Fort Street English Day School in 1865. Later known as Honolulu High School, it was renamed in

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, the twenty-fifth

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, in 1907. President William McKinley High School is one of the oldest

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s in the state and several of its buildings have been listed on the

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. The campus displays sculptures by Satoru Abe (1926–) and Bumpei Akaji (1921–2002). McKinley High School is accredited by the

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History

The high school was established in 1865 as the ''Fort Street English Day School''. It was founded by Maurice B. Beckwith. In November 1869, it was moved to Princess Ruth's Palace. In 1895 it was renamed to ''Honolulu High School''. In 1907, it was moved to the corner of Beretania and Victoria Streets and renamed ''President William McKinley High School'', and finally moved to its present campus on King Street in 1923. On June 5, 1938, the school gave diplomas to 1,288 students, the largest number of diplomas in the history of the school.

Student demographics

School Year 2010-2011 *Enrollment - 1782 *Number of Economically Disadvantaged Students - 1026 (57.5%) Racial composition: * Native American - 9 (0.5%) *

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- 12 (0.7%) * Chinese - 449 (25.6%) * Filipino - 347 (19.8%) *

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- 173 (9.9%) * Japanese - 163 (9.3%) *

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- 110 (6.3%) * Portuguese - 10 (0.6%) * Samoan - 72 (4.1%) *Indo-Chinese - 151 (8.6%) * Micronesian - 98 (5.6%) * Tongan - 13 (0.7%) * Guamanian/Chamorro - 8 (0.5%) *

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- 78 (4.5%) *Other Asian - 10 (0.6%) *Other Pacific Islander - 8 (0.5%) *Pacific Islander (2 or more) - 1 (0.1%) *Multiple (2 or more) - 4 (0.2%)

Faculty

School Year 2001-2002 *Total number of teachers - 108 *Number of teachers with 5 or more years at this school - 85 (78.7%) *Average years of experience - 18.1 *Number of teachers with advanced degrees - 32 (29.6%) School Year 2010-2011 *Total number of teachers - 98 *Number of teachers with 5 or more years at this school - 69 (70%) *Average years of experience - 17.2 *Number of teachers with advanced degrees - 42 (43%)

Complex area information

McKinley High School is part of the

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along with

and Roosevelt High School.

McKinley Complex

The McKinley Complex consists of 11 elementary, middle, and public charter schools including McKinley. *Central Middle School *Halau Lokahi Public Charter School *Kaahumanu Elementary School *Kaiulani Elementary School *Kauluwela Elementary School *Lanakila Elementary School *Likelike Elementary School *Lunalilo Elementary School *Myron B. Thompson Academy (Public Charter School) *Royal Elementary School *Voyager Public Charter School

Feeder Middle Schools

McKinley High School feeds primarily from 4 middle schools in the Honolulu area. *Central Middle School *Prince David Kawananakoa Middle School *Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School *President George Washington Middle School

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

In 2011, McKinley fielded 56 teams competing in 19 sports. These sports including

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, cross country,

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, and

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. McKinley competes in the Oahu Interscholastic Association. McKinley has fielded girls teams in basketball, volleyball, and swimming as early as in the 1910s. Some years even fielded girls baseball team before softball became recognized as its own sport. The yearbooks of those early years noted games often against St. Andrew's Priory, YWCA, Palama, Normal School (later merged with University of Hawaii's College of Education), and even College of Hawaii (now known as

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). McKinley was a founding member of the

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in 1909 alongside

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and Kamehameha. In 1970, McKinley left the ILH with 4 other Honolulu area public schools to join the OIA. The 1933 football team traveled across the

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and went on to defeat Weber College (now known as

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), BYU freshmen team, and Ricks College (now known as BYU-Idaho). Ricks College traveled to Honolulu the following year. McKinley won again by the score of 24-6 in a game attended by about 19,000 fans.

Football

The McKinley Tigers varsity football team competes in the Oahu Interscholastic Association Red-East division. Joseph Cho has served as the team's head coach since 2010. For the 2010 and 2011 seasons, McKinley's Tiger football team competed in the Oahu Interscholastic Association White Division (Division II) along with 7 other Oahu public schools including rival

. In 2012, the football team was promoted to the OIA Red-East Division (Division I) where it currently competes with 6 other Oahu public schools. The Tigers' homefield is currently the 3000 seat Ticky Vasconcellos Stadium on the Roosevelt High School campus. In September 2012, the McKinley football team traveled to

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to play the OSAA 4A champions La Salle High School Falcons on the campus of

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. McKinley won 43-22.

= Season records

McKinley Athletic Complex

In September 2008, it was announced that McKinley was planning to upgrade its aging athletic facilities. Expected to cost more than $121 million, the upgrade has 14 elements including a 1,200 stall parking lot, construction of a second gym, renovation of the current gym, construction of a girls softball stadium, construction of a baseball stadium, construction of a 50-meter swimming pool, and construction of a 10,000 seat football stadium. In 2011, ground was broken on the softball stadium. When completed, the softball stadium will be designated as the OIA softball championship field.

Championships

Noted alumni

Listed alphabetically by last name (year of graduation or years of birth and death) * Satoru Abe (1926-) – sculptor * Joseph Kaiponohea ʻAeʻa (1882-1914), hānai son of Queen Liliʻuokalani * Abraham Akaka Minister * George R. Ariyoshi (1944) -

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(1974–1986); first American of Japanese descent elected

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in the

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* Gladys Kamakakuokalani Brandt * Larry Buenafe (1988) U.S. Marine Corps, Sergeant Major (retired). Awarded by the President, The Legion of Merit, and The Meritorious Service Medal (4th award). Served four combat tours to Iraq and two combat tours to Afghanistan. *

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(1985) - U.S. Army Major, and Iraq War veteran. Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the eighth district of Illinois. United States Senator from the State of Illinois * Hiram L. Fong (1924) -

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(1959–1977) * Harry "Fuji" Fujiwara (1949) Former pro wrestler, most popularly known as Mr. Fuji for

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. * Leina'ala Kalama Heine (1958) – kumu hula *

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(2001) -

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singer; In 2007 released debut album,

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, which debuted at #1 on the

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charts in

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(1924-2012) - member of U.S. Army's

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(known as the "Go For Broke" regiment) which in World War II rescued a Texas Battalion surrounded by German forces in a battle known as the rescue of "The Lost Battalion"; Medal of Honor recipient; U.S. representative (1959–1962); U.S. senator (1962–2012).

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, 4th highest-ranking member of the U.S government. *

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(1986–1987, freshman and sophomore year only) - Professional, actor * Duke P. Kahanamoku - Olympic gold medalist in swimming (1912 and 1920) *

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- Musician, falsetto singer * Keichi Kimura - artist * Wah Kau Kong (ca. 1937) - first Chinese-American fighter pilot in

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(1952) - won four medals in swimming at the 1952 and 1956

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, including 2 gold medals and 2 silver medals, and set an Olympic record in the 1500m free *

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(1932–2002), jazz vibraphonist * Masaji Marumoto (1906-1995),

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judge * Fujio Matsuda (1942), educator *

Edith Kawelohea McKinzie Edith Kawelohea Kapule McKinzie (October 22, 1925 – October 21, 2014) was a Kanaka Maoli genealogist, educator, author, and an expert in hula and chant. She published two books on Hawaiian genealogy, was Director of the Hawaiian Language Newspape ...

(1925–2014), author, genealogist and traditional hula expert * Leroy A. Mendonca (1932-1951) U.S. Army sergeant killed in combat during Korean War, Medal of Honor *

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(19191982), American football player * Alice Sae Teshima Noda (1894-1964) - entrepreneur * Frederick Pang (1954), U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), 1993–94 * Paul Schrier (1985), actor * Alfred Song (1936), California State Assemblyman and State Senator * John Chin Young (1909–1997), artist

Architecture gallery

The architect most involved in the early layout of the King Street campus and design of its Spanish Colonial Revival buildings was Louis E. Davis. The original quadrangle was placed on the

in 1980.Sakamoto et al. (2008), p. 47 File:Honolulu-McKinley-HS-statue-admin.JPG, Statue and main administration building File:Honolulu-McKinley-HS-Commercial-bldg.JPG, Commercial building (B), with NRHP and

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plaques File:Honolulu-McKinley-HS-art-bldg.JPG, Art building (D), with owl columns File:Honolulu-McKinley-HS-Beckwith-walkway.JPG, Walkway to Beckwith Hall (E) File:Honolulu-McKinley-HS-Beckwith-driveway-side.JPG, Miles E. Cary Circle doorway to Beckwith Hall (E) File:Honolulu-McKinley-HS-Commercial-doorway.JPG, Miles E. Cary Circle doorway to Commercial building (B) File:Honolulu-McKinley-HS-home-economics-doorway.JPG, Doorway to Home Economics building (C) File:Honolulu-McKinley-HS-admin-wingend.JPG, Main administration building end wing

References

*Hawaii State Department of Education (n.d.). ''School Status and Improvement Report (School Year 2001-2002): President William McKinley High School''. Retrieved June 16, 2004, from State of Hawaii Department of Education, Accountability Resource Center Hawaii Web site: http://arch.k12.hi.us/school/ssir/2002/honolulu.html *Sakamoto, Dean, Vladimir Ossipoff, Karla Britton, Kenneth Frampton, Diana Murphy (2008). ''Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff.''

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. , *U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (n.d.). ''Common Core of Data (CCD) 2001-2002 School Year: McKinley High School''. Retrieved on June 16, 2004, from http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&SchoolID=150003000193&ID=150003000193

Notes

External links

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