CEEO: Glen Kila
Principal: Clarence DeLude
Through Conversion Charter status, Kamaile’s 2020 vision is to gradually expand to a P-14 school environment with an extended school day and year. This will provide them with the opportunity to offer programs to teach the whole child while maintaining rigorous academic curricula and strengthening and nurturing the Hawaiian culture and community on the Wai’anae Coast. Recently, Kamaile revised its Conversion Charter School Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) to include grades 7 and 8 and also extended day programs that will provide a sanctuary that nurtures learning beyond traditional school hours and provides the extra support they need to thrive emotionally, physically, and academically.
Although Kamaile Academy is still the district K-6 school for public school students who live in Wai`anae, Kamaile also accepts students from outside the area who apply for geographic exceptions. The surrounding communities are growing rapidly with families who have been displaced from their homes due to higher rents, job outsourcing or downsizing and are living on the beaches in tents or in transitional family shelters. As a result, Kamaile is projecting substantial increases in the number of students it currently serves as another 72 family unit shelter opens in June 2008 in addition to an existing 50 unit family shelter. Rapid growth has meant enormous changes in the area’s demographics, crime, teenage pregnancies, and drug use with the high increase of families and single parents living at/below poverty level. This small, rural community of people, whose families have been living here for generations, is expanding to include families living at/below poverty level who are new to the lifestyle and cultural history of the Wai`anae Coast (Moku).
