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 Paena Hoʻolālā Aʻo e aʻo hou aku e pili ana i ka hoʻolālā haʻawina e pili ana i nā kūlana.
Current core Nā kūlana

English Language Arts – Hawaiʻi Core maʻamau
- E heluhelu i nā Kūlana o kēia manawa no SY 2024-2025.
- Revised Hawai’i Core maʻamau Standards for English Language Arts (Google Doc) (E hoʻokō piha ʻia nā kūlana i hoʻoponopono hou ʻia a ʻae ʻia i ka makahiki kula 2025-26).
Mathematics – Hawaiʻi Core maʻamau
- Heluhelu i ka Nā kūlana
ʻEpekema – Nā Kūlana ʻEpekema Hou aʻe (NGSS)
- Heluhelu i ka Nā kūlana
- Nā alakaʻi makua i NGSS:
ʻEpekema Kamepiula – CSTA K-12 Nā Kūlana ʻepekema kamepiula
- Heluhelu i ka Nā kūlana
Social Studies – Hawaiʻi Core Standards for Social Studies (HCSSS)
kula haʻahaʻa:
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Nā Papa Koho Kula Kiʻekiʻe Haʻawina Pilikino:
Hoʻonaʻauao Hana a me ʻenehana (CTE) – Nā Kūlana Kūlana a me nā Hana Hana III
Fine Arts – National Core Arts Standards
Hoʻonaʻauao Ola - Nā Kūlana Hoʻonaʻauao Ola Ola: Achieving Excellence (NHES)
Hoʻonaʻauao kino – Hawaiʻi Content and Performance Standards III
Nā ʻŌlelo o ka Honua – Nā Kūlana Mākaukau o ka Honua no ke aʻo ʻana i nā ʻōlelo
Aia ka Papahana 'Ōlelo Honua a ka 'Oihana i ke a'o 'ana ma nā 'ōlelo he 11 e like me ka 'ōlelo 'Amelika, Pākē (Cantonese a me Mandarin), Palani, Kelemānia, Hawai'i, Ilokano, Kepanī, Kōlea, Lūkia, Sāmoa, a i 'ole Paniolo, ma nā kula ha'aha'a a kula ki'eki'e.
Hoʻonaʻauao ola kino
ʻO kekahi mau kānāwai a me nā kulekele mokuʻāina e kōkua i ka pale ʻana i ka hāpai ʻana o nā ʻōpio a me ka hoʻolaha ʻana o nā maʻi i hoʻouna ʻia ma o ka hoʻonaʻauao olakino olakino.
- Kānāwai mokuʻāina (Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) §321-11.1) hoʻokumu i nā koi no kēlā me kēia papahana hoʻonaʻauao olakino pili i ke aupuni.
- Kulekele Papa 103-5 Hoʻonaʻauao Ola Ola E heluhelu i nā Kūlana (PDF) koi 'ia ka 'Oihana e ho'okō i ka ho'ona'auao ola kino.
- E hāʻawi ʻia ka wehewehe ʻana o ka haʻawina i hoʻohana ʻia e ke kula i nā mākua/nā kahu kānāwai a e kau ʻia ma ka pūnaewele o ke kula ma mua o ka hoʻomaka ʻana o kekahi aʻo.
- E ho'oku'u 'ia ka haumāna mai ke a'o 'ana i ke ola kino wale nō ma muli o ke noi i kākau mua 'ia e kona makua a kahu paha.
- ʻAʻole hiki ke hoʻopaʻi ʻia ka haumāna, ka hoʻopaʻi hoʻonaʻauao, a i ʻole ka hoʻopaʻi ʻē aʻe inā hana ka makua a kahu paha o ka haumāna i kahi noi palapala.
Hiki i nā mākua a i ʻole nā kahu mālama kānāwai ke haʻalele i kā lākou mau keiki i ke aʻo ʻana e pili ana i nā pilikia hoʻopaʻapaʻa.
Hiki i nā mākua a i ʻole nā kahu mālama kānāwai ke kākau i kahi leka i nā luna hoʻomalu o ke kula a i ʻole ke kumu e hoʻokaʻawale ʻia kā lākou keiki mai kahi haʻawina a i ʻole hana. Inā loaʻa ia leka, pono e hāʻawi ʻia ka haumāna i kahi hana aʻo ʻē aʻe. He kuleana ko nā mākua a i ʻole nā kahu kānāwai e haʻi aku i ka luna hoʻomalu o ke kula a i ʻole ke kumu ma mua o ka haʻawina a i ʻole ka hana.