An anonymous donor has made a pivotal matching gift to Namahana School to help it obtain a permanent campus in Kīlauea Town.

Namahana School has targeted the fall of 2025 for when the first cohort of students will be arriving at the new charter school in Kilauea.

The planned middle and high school for students on the North Shore is fundraising to buy an 11-acre campus.

In an extraordinary turn of events, Namahana School has been given the opportunity to purchase a parcel of centrally located land in Kīlauea Town.

Donation Will Propel the Effort to Build New Public Charter School on Kaua‘i’s North Shore.

Meet the Namahana School and Namahana Education Foundation teams.

Namahana is one of two schools approved by the state Public Charter School Commission this year to begin operations.

Namahana School Receives Conditional Approval from Hawai‘i State Public School Charter Commission

In 2021, Representative Nadina Nakamura met with member of the Namahana team at its future school site in Kalihiwai/Kīlauea.