The Department’s subject matter standards are used to ensure students are being exposed to rigorous and age-appropriate benchmarks of learning. Standards are not curriculum, but expectations of what students should know and be able to do at each grade level. Visit the Department’s Learning Design site to learn more about curriculum design aligned to standards.

Current core Standards

Career and Technical Education (CTE) – Hawaiʻi Content and Performance Standards III

• Read the Standards (PDF)
• CTE program overview

Computer Science – CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards

• Read the Standards

English Language Arts – Hawaiʻi Common Core

• Read the current Standards for SY 2024-2025.
• Revised Hawai’i Common Core Standards for English Language Arts (Google Doc) (Newly revised and approved standards to be fully implemented in the 2025-26 school year).

Fine Arts – National Core Arts Standards

• Read the Standards

Health Education – National Health Education Standards: Achieving Excellence (NHES)

• Read the Standards (PDF)
• Health Education program overview

Mathematics – Hawaiʻi Common Core

• Read the Standards

Physical Education – Hawaiʻi Content and Performance Standards III

• Read the Standards (PDF)

Science – Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

• Read the Standards
• Parent guides to NGSS:
  • Grades K–2 (PDF)
  • Grades 3–5 (PDF)
  • Grades 6–8 (PDF)
  • Grades 9–12 (PDF)

Social Studies – Hawaiʻi Core Standards for Social Studies (HCSSS)

Elementary:

Secondary:

Social Studies High School Elective Courses:

World Languages – Hawaiʻi World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages

The Department’s World Languages Program consists of instruction in 11 languages including American Sign Language, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), French, German, Hawaiian, Ilokano, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Samoan, or Spanish, at the elementary and secondary school levels.

• Read the Standards (PDF)