Kamehameha Maui holds open house

Advertiser Staff

The Kamehameha Schools Maui campus will hold an open house from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today for prospective students.

The open house includes campus tours of the elementary and middle school, admissions information and assistance, a video, logo wear and talks on the history and future of Kamehameha Schools, sports and extracurricular activities and the campus name development and historical meanings.

Kamehameha Schools opened its Maui campus in 1996 in temporary facilities with 80 students. Today, the 180-acre site on the slopes of Haleakala has 588 students, and by 2005 it will have 1,120 students as it expands into high school.

The Kamehameha Schools Maui campus is located at 275 'A'apueo Parkway, Pukalani.

The open house coincides with the school's admission season.

This year the Kamehameha Schools campuses on Maui and the Big Island have said they would waive the $25 application fee, not eliminate children from consideration in the early screening process and not use minimum cutoff criteria when considering applications.

The decision followed a flap this summer when alumni learned of a decision to admit a non-Hawaiian student to the private trust's Maui campus. Trustees said they had run out of qualified Hawaiian candidates for spots in the eighth-grade class. Kamehameha Schools' policy gives Hawaiians preference, but can admit other students when that pool is exhausted.