History
Laupahoehoe School was started in 1904 for students from the Hamakua Coastal Sugar Cane Communities and fishing communities. The high school was established in the 1930s.
The school, originally was located on Laupahoehoe peninsula, but was destroyed by the April Fools' Day tsunami on April 1, 1946. Due to the tsunami, the old school building at Laupāhoehoe was inundated, and twenty students and four teachers drowned. A monument to the dead now stands on Laupāhoehoe Point. In 1948, a new campus was built at its present location.
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