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President William McKinley High School
Address
1039 South King Street Honolulu, Hawaiʻi United States
Information
Type	Public High School
Motto	Ike Makaukau Aloha
Established	1865
School district	Honolulu District
Principal	Ron Okamura
Grades	9-12
Number of students	1,814 (2002)
Campus	Urban
Color(s)	Black and Gold
Mascot	Tiger
Accreditation	Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Newspaper	The Pinion
Yearbook	Black and Gold
Military	United States Army JROTC
Distinctions	National Register of Historic Places
Website	www.mckinley.k12.hi.us

President William McKinley High School, more commonly referred to as McKinley High School, is a public, co-educational college preparatory high school of the Hawaii State Department of Education and serves grades nine through twelve. Originally founded and named Fort Street English Day School in 1865, it was renamed in memorial to William McKinley, the twenty-fifth President of the United States, in 1907. President William McKinley High School is one of the oldest secondary schools in the state and several of its buildings have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The campus displays sculptures by Satoru Abe (1926-) and Bumpei Akaji (1921–2002). Located in urban Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, McKinley High School is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

History

Timeline of notable McKinley High School events

• 1865 - Fort Street English Day School founded by Maurice B. Beckwith in the basement of the old Fort Street Church.
• 1869 - English Day School moved to the corner of Fort Street and School Street.
• 1895 - English Day School moved to Princess Ruth's palace and renamed Honolulu High School.
• 1907 - Honolulu High School moved to the corner of Beretania Street and Victoria Street and renamed President William McKinley High School.
• 1923 - McKinley High School moved to its present location on South King Street.
• 1927 - Marion McCarrell Scott Auditorium dedicated.
• 1931 - McKinley pool completed and named in honor of the late Fred Wright, former mayor of Honolulu.
• 1959 - Social studies building completed and named after Hawaiʻi Chief Justice Wilfred Tsukiyama.
• 1961 - Miles E. Carey cafeteria completed.
• 1962 - Music building completed.
• 1964 - Gymnasium completed.

Faculty

School year 2001-2002

• Total number of teachers - 108
• Number of teachers with 5 or more years at this school - 85 (78.7%)
• Average years of experience - 18.1
• Number of teachers with advanced degrees - 32 (29.6%)

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

McKinley's athletic teams currently compete in the Oahu Interscholastic Association (OIA) and the Hawaii High School Athletic Association (HHSAA).

The school fields teams in 20 sports: air riflery, baseball (boys), basketball, bowling, canoe paddling, cheerleading (coed), cross country, football (boys), golf, judo, pep squad (coed), soccer, softball (girls), soft tennis, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo (girls), and wrestling.

McKinley has fielded girls teams in basketball, volleyball, and swimming as early as in the 1910s. Some years even fielded girls baseball team before softball became recognized as its own sport. The yearbooks of those early years noted games often against St. Andrew's Priory, YWCA, Palama, Normal School (later merged with University of Hawaii's College of Education), and even College of Hawaii (now known as University of Hawaii).

The 1933 football team traveled across the Pacific Ocean and went on to defeat Weber College (now known as Weber State University), BYU freshmen team, and Ricks College (now known as BYU-Idaho). Ricks College traveled to Honolulu the following year. McKinley won again by the score of 24-6 in a game attended by about 19,000 fans.

Noted McKinley High School alumni

Listed alphabetically by last name (year of graduation or years of birth and death)

• Satoru Abe (1926-) sculptor
• Abraham Akaka Minister
• George R. Ariyoshi (1944) - Governor of Hawaiʻi (1974–1986); first American of Japanese decent elected governor in the United States
• Gladys Kamakakuokalani Brandt
• Tammy Duckworth (1985)- U.S. Army Major and Iraq War veteran from the U.S. state of Illinois. 2006 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives seat for the sixth district of Illinois
• Hiram L. Fong (1924) - U.S. senator (1959–1977)
• Abraham M. S. Goo (1943) - president, Boeing Military Airplane Co. and Boeing Advanced Systems
• Yuna Ito (2001) - J-pop singer; In 2007 released debut album, HEART, which debuted at #1 on the Oricon charts in Japan
• Daniel K. Inouye (1942) - member of U.S. Army's 442nd Regimental Combat Team (known as the "Go For Broke" regiment) which in World War II rescued a Texas Battalion surrounded by German forces in a battle known as the rescue of "The Lost Battalion"; Medal of Honor recipient; U.S. representative (1959–1962); U.S. senator (1962–present)
• Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (1986–1987, freshman year only) - Professional WWE Superstar Wrestler, Actor; 7 time WWF/WWE Champion, 2 time Intercontinental Champion, 5 time WWE World Tag Team Champion, 2 time WCW World Heavy Weight Champion, Royal Rumble (2000), Sixth Triple Crown Champion.
• Duke P. Kahanamoku - Olympic gold medalist in swimming (1912 and 1920)
• Benny Kalama - Musician, falsetto singer
• Wah Kau Kong (ca. 1937) - first Chinese-American fighter pilot in World War II
• Ford Konno (1952) - won four medals in swimming at the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games, including 2 gold medals and 2 silver medals, and set an Olympic record in the 1500m free
• Arthur Lyman (1932–2002), jazz vibraphonist
• Leroy A. Mendonca (1950) U.S. Army sergeant killed in combat during Korean War, Medal of Honor
• Frederick Pang (1954), U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), 1993–94
• John Chin Young (1909–1997), artist

Architecture gallery

The architect most involved in the early layout of the King Street campus and design of its Spanish Colonial Revival buildings was Louis E. Davis. The original quadrangle was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

• Statue and main administration building
• Commercial building (B), with NRHP and Hiram Fong plaques
• Art building (D), with owl columns
• Walkway to Beckwith Hall (E)
• Miles E. Cary Circle doorway to Beckwith Hall (E)
• Miles E. Cary Circle doorway to Commercial building (B)
• Doorway to Home Economics building (C)
• Main administration building end wing

References

• Hawaii State Department of Education (n.d.). School Status and Improvement Report (School Year 2001-2002): President William McKinley High School. Retrieved June 16, 2004, from State of Hawaii Department of Education, Accountability Resource Center Hawaii Web site: http://arch.k12.hi.us/school/ssir/2002/honolulu.html
• Sakamoto, Dean, Vladimir Ossipoff, Karla Britton, Kenneth Frampton, Diana Murphy (2008). Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300121466, ISBN 9780300121469
• U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (n.d.). Common Core of Data (CCD) 2001-2002 School Year: McKinley High School. Retrieved on June 16, 2004, from http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&SchoolID=150003000193&ID=150003000193

Notes

1. News Center: BYU-Idaho History: The Spirit of Ricks
2. Celebrating A Century of Ricks Athletics
3. Awards - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
4. Sakamoto et al. (2008), p. 47

External links

• McKinley High School (school Web site)
• McKinley High School (Hawaii State Department of Education Web site)
• McKinley High School Robotics Team
• Hawaii State Department of Education
• Official Alumni Community Site

• High schools in Hawaii
• Schools on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii
• Schools in Honolulu, Hawaii
• Schools in Honolulu County, Hawaii
• Publicly funded schools in Hawaii