Where: 260 Farrington Highway, Maui complex

Grade span: Kindergarten through sixth

Enrollment: 367 students enrolled

Race/ethnicity enrollment: Hawaiian/part-Hawaiian, 90 percent; other, 10 percent.

Free and reduced-price lunch eligible: 74 percent

Special-education students: 5 percent

Computers on campus: 148.

Principal: Lydia Trinidad, 11 years.

School nickname: Comets

School colors: Blue and yellow

What are you most proud of? "That the staff took the leap of faith together and became a conversion charter school," Trinidad said.

What is your biggest challenge? "Trying to navigate all the systems of changes in our conversion to charter school while making everyone feel safe and secure during the conversion," Trinidad said. "Fortunately for us, we have good partnerships with Ho'okako'o, Kamehameha Schools, the state Department of Education and school unions who have helped to ease the difficulties of becoming a Conversion Charter School."

Special events: Math Night, Read Aloud program, Art Night, Hawaiian Immersion program for the island of Moloka'i, Small After School Farming Program and High Quality After School programs in academics.

History: Kualapu'u School opened in 1964 and served the farming community of plantation workers and Hawaiian homesteaders. It began the Hawaiian Language Immersion Program in 1993 called Kula Kaiapuni O Kualapu'u. It converted to a charter school in 2004.

Web address: www.kualapuu.k12.hi.us

Phone: 808-567-6900.