Education Research

The University of Hawai’i (UH) system is comprised of three universities, seven community colleges, and nine education centers on six islands. Native Hawaiian students accounted for 23.3% of the total enrollment in the UH System in Fall 2017 and 21.3% of all degrees and certificates awarded in fiscal year 2017-2018.

• At 23.3% of the total enrollment, Native Hawaiian students represented the largest single ethnic population in the UH System in the Fall 2018 semester
• Although there was a slight decrease in 1.7 percentage points from FY2017, the 2,392 degrees and certificates earned by Native Hawaiians in the UH System in FY2018 equates to a 97.8% cumulative increase in the number of total certificates and degrees earned by Native Hawaiian students over the FY2009 baseline.
  • FY2018 UH System Degrees Earned Indicator Sheet
  • FY2017 UH System Degrees Earned Indicator Sheet
  • FY2016 UH System Degrees Earned Indicator Sheet
  • FY2015 UH System Degrees Earned Indicator Sheet
  • Download the 2014 UH System Degrees Indicator Sheet
  • Download the 2013 UH System Degrees Indicator Sheet
  • A Native Hawaiian Focus on Post-Secondary Education within the University of Hawaiʻi System (2014)

In SY2014, the Hawaiʻi Common Core State Standards replaced the Hawai’i Content and Performance Standards III. To align with these new standards, the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessment was fully implemented in SY2015. Due to this change, results for SY2009-2013 (SBA), SY2014 (part-HAS, part-SBA “bridge” assessment), and SY2015 – SY2018 cannot be compared.

SY2018 assessment test results show that:

• 38.0% of Native Hawaiian students were proficient in reading, a 3.8 percentage point increase from last year
• 26.3% of Native Hawaiian students were proficient in math, a 0.4 percentage point decrease from last year

The Hawaiʻi Standard Assessment (HSA) in reading and math is administered to Department of Education (DOE) public school students in grades 3 – 8 and 10.

• Download the 2018 State Assessment Indicator Sheet
• Download the 2017 State Assessment Indicator Sheet
• Download the 2016 State Assessment Indicator Sheet
• Download the 2015 State Assessment Indicator Sheet
• Download the 2014 State Assessment Indicator Sheet
• Download the 2012 State Assessment Indicator Sheet

A report by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ (OHA) Research Department shares highlights on the Native Hawaiian student population in Hawai‘i’s public school system.

• A Native Hawaiian Focus on the Hawai‘i Public School System SY2015, April 2017