Moanalua High School is a public, co-educational college preparatory high school of the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education and serves grades nine through twelve. Established in 1972 and graduated its first class in 1975, Moanalua High School is located in suburban Salt Lake near Moanalua in the City & County of Honolulu of the state of Hawaiʻi. It is situated on an extinct volcano hillside overlooking downtown Honolulu at 2825 Ala ʻIlima Street. The campus boasts the bronze sculpture Moanalua by Bumpei Akaji and the ceramic sculpture Silent Sounds by Shigeharu Yamada.
Moanalua High School (also known as MoHS to differentiate itself from the "MHS", acronyms associated with McKinley High School and Mililani High School), is nationally recognized for its academics, music program and media communications learning center. In 1998, it became the first student orchestra officially invited to play at Carnegie Hall by the governing Carnegie Hall Corporation. This is opposed to student orchestras that played at Carnegie Hall who were participants of special educational programs that happened to have taken place at Carnegie Hall. Moanalua High School played at the prestigious venue twice, most recently in 2005. The Moanalua High School Menehune Marching Band, led by directors Elden Seta, Rhona Barbosa, June Masuno, and Erik Kubota, is also widely acclaimed to be one of the best in the United States. Former director Grant Otomo left the school in 2010 to take over Aiea Middle School's music program, and Kubota stepped in to take his position at Moanalua.
Moanalua High School recently underwent reaccreditation by Western Association of Schools and Colleges and has achieved the maximum accreditation term of six years, 2006-2012.
Darrel Galera currently heads the school as principal, along with Regina Arakaki, Ben Meyer, Lynda Sadaoka and Julia Toyama, vice-principals.
As of the 2007 school year, there were 1,958 students attending the school.
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