Hawaii Catholic Schools

Congratulations Hawaii Catholic high school class of 2019!

06/12/2019 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Click here for pictures of the outstanding students and the class portraits of Hawaii’s Catholic high schools’ graduating classes

All grades to close at Saint Francis at end of school year

02/21/2019 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

All grades at Saint Francis School will close at the end of this academic year, the religious order that sponsors the Manoa pre-K to 12 Catholic school announced on Feb. 14. Saint Francis students received the news at an assembly at the end of the school day, which was also live streamed to the school’s […]

Applauding Catholic educators

02/06/2019 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Hawaii Catholic Schools Week ended with the Annual Conference of Catholic Educators (ACCE) for Oahu teachers, administrators and staff at St. Ann Church in Kaneohe on Feb. 1. This year’s national Catholic Schools Week theme was “Catholic Schools: Learn. Serve. Lead. Succeed.”

St. Joseph principal named associate superintendent of Hawaii Catholic Schools

02/06/2019 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

By Mona Ishihara Special to the Herald Superintendent of Hawaii Catholic Schools Michael Rockers announced Jan. 21 the appointment of Llewellyn Young, the principal of St. Joseph School, Hilo, for the past five years, as the new associate superintendent. He will succeed Betsey Gunderson who retires June 30. Originally from Kauai, Young attended the University […]

Saint Francis alumni ask if school can be saved

01/25/2019 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald The impending closure of the middle and high school at Saint Francis in Manoa took many school graduates by shock. At a Jan. 10 alumni meeting on campus, Saint Francis graduates asked the school’s board of directors when they knew the upper school would need to close. Several graduates […]

Star of the Sea students use 3D printing for a purpose

01/09/2019 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Story and photos by Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald In their 3D Fabrication Lab classes, students at Mary, Star of the Sea School in Waialae-Kahala learn how to design and print small items — toys, small models, vases, logos and other items of their choosing. But the students have also turned to a project with […]

Picturing life’s calling: winners of the Hawaii Catholic Schools vocation awareness art contest

11/14/2018 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

Click here to see the winners of the Hawaii Catholic Schools vocation awareness art contest To commemorate National Vocation Awareness Week, Nov. 4-10, the Hawaii Catholic Schools office and the Director of Vocations of the Diocese of Honolulu, Father Rheo Ofalsa, sponsored a Vocations Awareness Art Contest for students in grades kindergarten through grade eight […]