Hawaii Preparatory Academy, Waimea, Hawai'i

Hawaii Preparatory Academy Campus

The Hawaii Preparatory Academy is located in Kamuela (also called Waimea, not to be confused with towns of the same name on the islands of Kauai and Oahu) on the island of Hawai'i. Hawai'i, at 4,038 square miles, is the largest of the eight islands that comprise the state of Hawai'i. It was formed by the convergence of lava flows from four volcanoes, Mauna Kea (the tallest at 13,796 feet above sea level), Mauna Loa, Kohala (the oldest) and Kilauea (the active one). The west, or leeward side of the island, is dry (about 73 inches per year rainfall in Kailua Kona) compared to the east, or windward side of the island (150 inches per year at Hilo, the second most populous city in the state and also the capitol of the island of Hawai'i). The geography of Hawai'i varies considerably. There are lush tropical rain forests and arid deserts, white sand beaches and snow-capped mountain peaks. Islanders grow sugar cane, the famous Kona coffee and cattle. In fact, Waimea (where the Hawai'i Preparatory Academy is located) is the location of the Parker Ranch, once the largest privately owned cattle ranch in the world. The Hawaii Preparatory Academy, founded in 1949, is a coeducational college-preparatory boarding school with grades K-12 situated on two campuses. We will be meeting on the upper campus, which houses grades 9-12. It is about 38 miles north of the Kona airport, a pleasant drive through volcanic lava floes which are peppered with messages written in arrangements of white rock. The Academy sits at about the 2,000 foot level close to a boundary between the drier leeward side and wetter windward side of the island.

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