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Kauai High School
Address
3577 Lala Rd. Lihue , Hawaii
Information
School type	Public
Founded	1914
Principal	Linda Smith
Grades	9-12
Language	English
Color(s)	Red, White, and Black
Mascot	Hawaiian Hawk
Team name	Red Raiders
Website	http://teacherweb.com/HI/Kauaihigh/Raiders/h1.stm

Kauai High School is a high school in Lihue, Hawaii, serving students from ninth through twelfth grades. It was the first public high school in the island of Kauai. It began operating in 1914 and graduated its first class, consisting of one out of seven students, in 1919. Since then, the school has grown each year with an increasing amount of students.

    Seven years ago Kauai had no High School opportunities for the young people who had finished the Elementary School course. They had to go to Honlulu or forego altogether the cherished hope for a higher education. 
    The removal to Lihue of the county offices from the old site above Nawiliwili left vacant the buildings in which had been carried on for so long the admiistrative and judicial activities of the island. The old lawn, comprising an area of three and two-tenths acre, so well favored, and commanding an unsurpassed view of Kauai's mountain crescent and Nawiliwili Bay, had witnessed many a concourse of island people in the performance of their civic duties. It might be said that the life here had always constituted the higher education of the island. For a High School no more fitting location, scenically or traditionally, could have been selected. 
    The securing of this site and plant for High School purposes was brought about mainly by the efforts of the parents who had been supporting the private school in the yard of the Lihue Union Church. The High School was organized as a public institution. This made it available for all eligible students throughout the county. In addition the old private school was affiliated with the High School and partly maintained by tuition fees paid by those who attended: hence the name, Kauai High and Grammar School. This organization has remained unchanged. 
    At that time Elementary education in the upper grades was just beginning on a large scale. There were very few graduates from the Eighth Grades. The great rush to the High School from the outlying districts that has taken place just recently was then wholly unforeseen, and is a situation that has made the administration of the institution a difficult one, due mainly to the lack of housing facilities. If proper dormitory accomodations were provided Kauai could have a High School second to none in the Territory, so far as opportunity for the student is concerned. 
    Kauai High School was opened in September, 1914, just a little over a month after the outbreak of the Great War. This is a second significant fact connected with its history. There were seven in attendance that year. Only one of these remained to graduate. The next year seven more entered. For each of the following three years about twice that number came in. Waimea School was the chief contributor of trained beginners. In 1919 twenty-nine entered. Last fall sixty-four entered from the schools of the island and eight from the upper classes in High Schools in Honolulu. The increase of enrollment this year over that of last year is one hundred ten percent. Judging from the applications that are coming in for next year there is every reason to expect an attendance of one hundred eighty. 
    The Junior High School that is to be established in Waimea next September and the one that will eventually be oened at Kapaa are further responses to the demand for higher education that the Elementary Schools are able to provide. The larger life into which we have been ushered during these later years demands a universal High School education if our American Democracy is to develop. It is gratifying that Kauai is not slow to realize the need. That a more promising group of sincere and lofty-minded young peole would be difficult to find is the testimony of all who have had contact with the student body of Kauai High School. The struggles and sacrifices made in reaching out for the higher life are the real forces which educate. 

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The Mock Trial team, is one of Kauai High School's most distinguished groups. The team has represented its state at the National Competition for many times. The team took first runner up in 2005.

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• Hawaii Public Schools

• [1] Kauai High School's official website