Known as the "Pride of the North Shore,"[3] Kahuku High and Intermediate has academic and athletic programs and a Music Learning Center that features band and choral music[3] which have garnered state and national recognition. Their graduation ceremonies are known for their medley performances, even going viral in 2015.[4] The school's
We the People team has advanced to the national competition several times.[5][6]
The campus has a bronze sculpture, Spirit of Kahuku, by Jan Gordon Fisher and Bruce Brown.
Kahuku High School Red Raiders football program
In the 21st century the Kahuku Red Raiders have won a Hawai`i record eleven (11) State Football Championships - most recently in November 2023, beating fellow public school
Mililani 21–19.[7] In Kahuku High School football history, four (4) head football coaches have won state football championship titles: Siuaki Livai (2000, 2001, 2003, 2005), Reginald "Reggie" Torres (2006, 2011, 2012),[8] Vavae Tata (2015), and most recently Sterling Carvahlo (2021, 2022, 2023).[9][10]
With the rare defensive shutout in the championship game, the 2022 Red Raiders earned back-to-back state football champions for the first time since 2011–2012. Sterling Carvalho joins former Red Raider alumni and previous Kahuku head football coaches Reggie Torres and Siuaki Livai as the only coaches to lead Kahuku to a state football championship in consecutive seasons. Additionally, the Kahuku Red Raiders have won all four state-final meetings against Punahou School and its 31 victories in the state HHSAA tournament are a record in the high school sport of American football in Hawai`i.[11]
The Red Raiders have won or shared the
Oahu Interscholastic Association (OIA) Public school championship title 29 times since the inception of OIA in 1940.
[10] Kahuku High School's football team also has been nationally ranked multiple times in numerous high school football opinion polls and rankings even before winning their first Hawai`i High School Athletic Association (HHSAA) State Football Championship in 2000. Kahuku High School football program's highest ranking came at the end of the 2001 football season when they were ranked #8 in the Super 25 High School Football rankings and #13 in the StudentSports.com rankings.[12]
Natasha Kai, 2008 Olympian for the United States Gold medal-winning Women's National Soccer Team
Alopati Albert
"Al" Lolotai, first Samoan Athletic Director at Church College of Hawai`i (Now BYU-Hawai`), First player from Kahuku School (they did not have a High School until 1939), First Iolani School graduate, the First Weber State University (then called Weber Junior College) football player, First University of Hawai`i-Manoa football player, First football player of Samoan ancestry and First Polynesian football player ever to play professional American football in the National Football League NFL in 1945.
Leo Reed, labor leader, served as Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399's top officer for 24 years, served as the head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Motion Picture & Theatrical Trades Division and he was the first Kahuku High School Graduate to play professional football.[17] [Note: Kahuku's High School was created in 1939 and began playing organized OIA sports - including American football - shortly thereafter just prior to World War II. This new high school built upon on the foundation established by Kahuku Elementary ("English School") School, which started in 1893. Kahuku did not have official organized interscholastic sports prior to 1940 - when the OIA was officially created.[18] ] ,.[19]
Tanoai Reed, Actor and Hollywood stunt man - primarily for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson[20]
Chris Nae`ole, New Orleans Saints and Jacksonville Jaguars
Leo T. Reed, Drafted by the Saint Louis Cardinals, Played for the Houston Oilers and Denver Broncos of the NFL; later played for the Indianapolis Warriors of the United Football League, and the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL [23]
Manti Te`o, San Diego Chargers and New Orleans Saints[24]