President William McKinley High School

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President William McKinley High School
President William McKinley High School.png
Motto Ike Makaukau Aloha
Established 1865
Type Public High School
Principal Ron Okamura
Students 1,789 (2009)
Grades 9-12
Location 1039 South King Street,
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA
District Honolulu District
Accreditation Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Campus Urban
Colors Black and Gold          
Mascot Tiger
Yearbook Black and Gold
Newspaper The Pinion
Military United States Army JROTC
Distinctions National Register of Historic Places
Website www.mckinley.k12.hi.us

President William McKinley High School, more commonly referred to as McKinley High School, is a public, co-educational college preparatory high school of the Hawaii State Department of Education and serves grades nine through twelve. Originally founded and named Fort Street English Day School in 1865, it was renamed in memorial to William McKinley, the twenty-fifth President of the United States, in 1907. President William McKinley High School is one of the oldest secondary schools in the state and several of its buildings have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The campus displays sculptures by Satoru Abe (1926-) and Bumpei Akaji (1921–2002). Located in urban Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, McKinley High School is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

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[edit] History

Timeline of notable McKinley High School events

  • 1865 - Fort Street English Day School founded by Maurice B. Beckwith in the basement of the old Fort Street Church.
  • 1869 - English Day School moved to the corner of Fort Street and School Street.
  • 1895 - English Day School moved to Princess Ruth's palace and renamed Honolulu High School.
  • 1907 - Honolulu High School moved to the corner of Beretania Street and Victoria Street and renamed President William McKinley High School.
  • 1923 - McKinley High School moved to its present location on South King Street.
  • 1927 - Marion McCarrell Scott Auditorium dedicated.
  • 1931 - McKinley pool completed and named in honor of the late Fred Wright, former mayor of Honolulu.
  • 1959 - Social studies building completed and named after Hawaiʻi Chief Justice Wilfred Tsukiyama.
  • 1961 - Miles E. Carey cafeteria completed.
  • 1962 - Music building completed.
  • 1964 - Gymnasium completed.
  • 2011 - Ground for a new softball stadium is broken.

[edit] 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%)

[edit] Complex Area Information

McKinley High School is part of the Hawaii Department of Education Kaimuki-McKinley-Roosevelt Complex Area along with Kaimuki High School and Roosevelt High School.

[edit] McKinley Complex

The McKinley Complex consists of 11 elementary, middle, and public charter schools 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
  • Myron B. Thompson Academy (Public Charter School)
  • Royal Elementary School
  • Voyager Public Charter School

[edit] 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

[edit] Extracurricular activities

[edit] Athletics

McKinley's athletic teams currently compete in the Oahu Interscholastic Association (OIA) and the Hawaii High School Athletic Association (HHSAA).

The school fields teams in 20 sports: air riflery, baseball (boys), basketball, bowling, canoe paddling, cheerleading (coed), cross country, football (boys), golf, judo, pep squad (coed), soccer, softball (girls), soft tennis, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo (girls), and wrestling.

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 University of Hawaii).

The 1933 football team traveled across the Pacific Ocean and went on to defeat Weber College (now known as Weber State University), BYU freshmen team, and Ricks College (now known as BYU-Idaho).[1] 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.[2]

[edit] Football (2010 - present)

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 Kaimuki High School. 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 (including Kaimuki) The Tigers' homefield is currently the 3000 seat Ticky Vasconcellos Stadium.

[edit] Season Records
Season Head Coach Record Division Notes
2010 Joseph Cho 4-4-0 / 4-5-0 OIA-White
2011 Joseph Cho 5-3-0 / 6-4-0 OIA-White
2012 Joseph Cho OIA Red-East

[edit] Noted alumni

Listed alphabetically by last name (year of graduation or years of birth and death)

[edit] 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 National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[4]

  • Statue and main administration building

  • Commercial building (B), with NRHP and Hiram Fong plaques

  • Art building (D), with owl columns

  • Walkway to Beckwith Hall (E)

  • Miles E. Cary Circle doorway to Beckwith Hall (E)

  • Miles E. Cary Circle doorway to Commercial building (B)

  • Doorway to Home Economics building (C)

  • Main administration building end wing

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ News Center: BYU-Idaho History: The Spirit of Ricks
  2. ^ Celebrating A Century of Ricks Athletics
  3. ^ Awards - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
  4. ^ Sakamoto et al. (2008), p. 47

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