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• sunrise
• 2024/05/04 (Sat) 18:31
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My daughter went to MCS for 3 and 4 years old, Kinder to Punahou, and now attends Middle.
She told me that there are many children from MCS at Middle and that she reconnected with some of her classmates from MCS Preschool.
She says that the kids from MCS and Hanahauoli from 6th and 7th are so smart that she herself would have been
smarter if she had stayed at MCS until 5th （ lol ）

My daughter was in MCS Montessori method of education matched in preschool, and I remember the astonishing increase in her intellectual level at ages 3 and 4.
She also developed self-determination, initiative, manners, and concentration from learning so much with her fingers.
As a result, my daughter and many other children moved from MCS to Punahou and Iolani Kinder, eight years ago.
Nowadays, the school is still the same, or rather, it seems to be a feeding school with even higher academic standards than then （ ）
Therefore, recently, many students are going straight to MCS Kinder, and 90% of the middle school students are going to Punahou.
I heard that 90% of the students from the middle school go to Punahou. It is undeniably MCS that laid the foundation for my daughter's academic success.
Montessori education is a method that can only be developed at a young age, so most schools only offer elementary.
I, as a parent, feel that the Montessori method of education that she developed as a toddler still has a tremendous impact on her academic ability, independence, and self-determination. I am sorry that this is far from the answer to your question.
However, if you are considering sending your child to MCS ！ I highly recommend it ！.

• はり
• 2024/05/05 (Sun) 20:14
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Plumeria, thank you for even giving us an update on where those who will be graduating this year will be going to school ！
Thank you for the details.

Many students take the exam in 5th grade and move to Punahou or Iolani ！ It is true that more 5th graders take the exam than 6th graders
Both Punahou and Iolani accept more students ！
Only the results of students who have been enrolled in the final 6th grade are published. Only the results of students enrolled until the final grade 6 are publicly available, so in terms of numbers, there are about 20 students per class per grade. I know it must be a fierce competition to be accepted from Kinder, though, since I was rejected from preschool two years in a row.
But really, the feeding school that the preschool teachers are talking about is the one where 90% of the students can go on to Punahou or Iolani. It is rare to find a school that can give you that level of academic achievement. That's why I understood why the ratio of students is so high.

Both of my children went from MCS to Punahou. ！ I will try my best to take the Kinder exam again this year ！
I want to settle down soon because I have to take the exam every year ！ ！ ！ Thank you ！

• パブリック
• 2024/05/05 (Sun) 20:33
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I had heard rumors, but it's amazing
We send ours to Public in Waikiki, and this year, out of almost 50 students, only one child was accepted to Punahou.
The kids I know who go to Wilson and Liholiho have zero. I am not sure how many kids took the test.
I heard that Hokulani had 2 and Kahala had 1. It is still quite difficult to get in from public.
17 out of 20 compared to Public where there are almost 50 or more and only one or two pass or not ！
This is the difference between the kids who are paying for advanced education and those who are not. This is a topical difference that makes me keenly aware that this is the difference between a child who pays for a high level of education and a Public.
We are not financially able to do this and we didn't have the brains to put him in a feeding school （ Sweat ）.

• マハロママ
• 2024/05/05 (Sun) 20:43
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Our family also took the Kinder exam and was not accepted to MontessoriCommunity School this year.
The percentage of students going on to Punahou is very high.
Dear Plumeria, I can't see the information about where the students who will graduate this year, 2024, will go on to, because it is not on Montessori's website yet.
The information for current students is very early ！
8 out of 9 students were accepted, which is more than 90% Punahou acceptance rate. It is also great that 5 Iolani were accepted and all declined.
I envy you because you can't get this education without getting into Montessori first ！ Congratulations to your child on getting into Punahou.

• カサブランカ
• 2024/05/06 (Mon) 20:04
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！
My son goes to Waikiki Elementary and will be a middle school student next year
I was thinking about having him take the test, but then I heard a rumor that about 15 people from Waikiki Elementary took the test this year and none of them passed. ！

I was surprised to hear that only 1 out of 60 students from public schools passed the exam ！ I was so naive ！
17 out of 20 students are Punahou and the rest are Iolani.
More than 90% of the students are Punahou and Iolani.
The difference in academic achievement between Public and Iolani is astonishing ！
I thought there is no difference in learning between Public and Private
but money changes education
Zero passes this year I knew the difference between the two and knew the reality. Sorry son ！

• Love
• 2024/05/08 (Wed) 00:58
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I see that even in Waikiki and Wilson, which are popular public schools, the acceptance rate is about that high. I wonder if the acceptance rate is a little higher in Manoa and Noelani. ？ It seems that the Kinder exam is very competitive, but the level of the exam after elementary school is also very competitive.

• たかこ
• 2024/05/08 (Wed) 15:37
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Is Wilson popular ？
My second daughter has been a GE in Kinder since August and Wilson is the only one who hasn't heard anything, so I contacted them last weekend and they said they haven't sent out notices to anyone yet and
They said they still have openings and they can send out accept notices within the next week and no one will be denied. I was told that there is a SPACE that will not be deny.
I was told that Wilson, Waikiki, and Kahala are easy to get into these days, and Manoa, Noelani, Hokulani, and Nuuanu are popular because of their rising academic standards ！
However, it seems that only the top 1% of the top students at Punahou and Iolani can get in from public schools. According to Tutor, my oldest daughter.
Well, it's free education, but I wonder what the teachers are teaching if there is such a gap with private schools.
According to Tutor, it is not because they are private schools ！ but because there are only a few private schools that can provide the level of education required to enter Punahou or Iolani
and to enter those private schools is a very high level entrance exam.
My oldest daughter will be in the 5th grade in August, and she is also a Tutor, but since it is a public school, it is difficult to get into Punahou or Iolani unless you are in the top 1%
I am thinking about Midpac or Secret Heart.

• lulu
• 2024/05/09 (Thu) 13:11
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From my experience, even from the public elementary schools, they have been accepted to Punahou and Iolani. Everyone I know from the 6th grade, including me, has been accepted to both schools. The average number of students who go to private schools seems to be 2 or 3 per grade because there are not many students who take the exam from public schools. I've been reading the posts here and there is a great air of not being able to get into Punahou or Iolani unless you went to a feedin school, so just FYI.

• たかこ
• 2024/05/09 (Thu) 20:10
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やはりパブリックからだとプナホウ、イオラニどころかプライベート自体に行く子が2〜３人しかいないんですね！
luluさんのお子さんは、その１%なんですよ！
優秀で羨ましいです！
このトピ見てからプライベート受験について学校に聞きに行きました。やはりうちの子はプナホウ、イオラニに受かる学力ではないようです　笑
本当にパブリックからはMontessori やHanahau’oli
のように9割プナホウとかとは違って難しいようです。
学校側もMontessori やHanahau’oli は独自の教育法でプナホウ、イオラニに進学率を伸ばしているから、パブリックとは違う、とハッキリ言われました。
仰る通りです！と納得でした。
我が家は受験するかどうかから練り直し！
子供に相応しいレベルを見極める良いきっかけになりました！

• maki
• 2024/05/09 (Thu) 22:08
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I took the Punahou ・ Iolani ・ mid-pack Kinder exam this year and got wiped out. Kinder exams are fierce competition.
I plan to go to one of the above public kinder in GE. I have heard that some people have gone to Punahou ・ Iolani even from public schools, which gives me hope. Thank you.
But cram school and Tutor are essential. I will try my best to try again ！.

• yuri
• 2024/05/15 (Wed) 14:03
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I applied to both Hana Hau'oli and MCS this year and had no connections at all.
I am currently attending St. Clements from the age of 3 and wanted to start my child at Hana Hau'oli or MCS from the age of 4, so I was not sure if I would be accepted to both schools.
After numerous questions at orientations and with admissions staff at both schools, we decided to enroll her at MCS.
The criterion for our choice was still the percentage of students going from the middle to the TOP 2.
We are not considering taking the Kinder exam because we want to
be clear about our child's skills and our child's intentions as to what our child wants to do, learn, future possibilities, etc. when he/she enters Middle.
I am not sure if Kinder will be able to identify the strengths of my child since both Punahou and Iolani schools have their own strengths.
Hana Hau'oli also had a good school culture and a high rate of students going to Punahou, but the school culture was more connected and the actual rate of students going to the top 2 middle schools in recent years was
higher at MCS.
We are excited about the Montessori education at MCS.
The admissions staff and school staff are very kind and honest, and the teachers seem to be of a high caliber, as they must have not only teaching credentials but also Montessori teaching credentials
to be able to teach.
I am still enrolled in the school from August, so I hope to share more details as they become available.

• saeko
• 2024/05/22 (Wed) 12:49
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maki-san ！ We also took the Kinder test and were rejected from Iolani, Punahou, and Montessori Community School,
We recently received acceptance letters from Midpac and St. Andrews.

I also received acceptance letters from Hongwanji and Merinole, but I am thinking of sending her to St. Andrews.
It seems that all of the Merinoles have been accepted ！ It seems that at the end of the day, there are fewer and fewer students and all of them are notified of their acceptance.
Iolani, Punahou, and Montessori Communities are notified immediately after the first Enrollment date, otherwise
after that, waitlists almost never come around.
The mid-pack is open after Iolani, Punahou, Montessori, and Le Jordain are announced
so don't give up and wait, the teacher said ！.

• スリッパ
• 2024/05/23 (Thu) 02:11
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#I would like to know what kind of children other than your child can pass the entrance exam. Or, is it more like a child who is very focused and can concentrate on one thing at a time ？?

• maki
• 2024/05/23 (Thu) 16:21
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#15 saeko
Thank you for your reply ！ Congratulations on your advanced acceptance from Midpac and St. Andrews. St. Andrews is also a very reputable school.

We also received a call from Midpac after that. Many of the kids around me have heard from Midpac as well. We decided to decline because Iolani was our first choice and we didn't think we needed to join Mid-Pac from Kinder yet.
Punahou ・ Iolani ・ Montessori seems difficult to move up after the first deadline. There are several children around me who have been accepted to Punahou, but not Iolani. Iolani seems to be narrower than Punahou in terms of capacity.
We got the public school of our choice through GE, so we will try our best at the public school for now and aim for Iolani Punahou. Thank you for all the information ！.

• saeko
• 2024/05/25 (Sat) 19:16
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#18 maki
I knew you got your mid-pack acceptance letter ！
All of us at the school got mid-packs one after another ！

Iolani is still the best academically, by far. Iolani is still by far the best academically, and the university they go to is more advanced than Punahou.
Congratulations on getting into the school of your choice in GE.
We are both taking the middle exam again ！ I'm glad you feel like you have a peer.

• yuri
• 2024/05/28 (Tue) 12:56
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#16 Slipper
Thanks for your comment. Sorry for the delay ！
No, I'm just an ordinary girl. I have never been to Takahashi Juku.
However, she plays outside a lot and her concentration was
high even before she entered preschool.
She liked puzzles and blocks since she was about 2 years old, and she never stopped doing puzzles
until they were completed.
I also raised him from birth with an emphasis on Japanese rather than English.
I learned this from a doctor at the hospital, who told me that a completely bilingual brain affects academic performance, and that if I wanted to raise my child in the U.S., I should immerse him in Japanese until he was 3 years old and raise him 100% in Japanese.
Now I can completely translate from Japanese to English because of that. I heard that the brain moves naturally. I was told before the birth that this would deeply affect my academic ability and judgment, so I was very thorough.
Other than that, he is just a normal kid who plays outside a lot. lol
Thank you for your kind words ♪.

• スリッパ
• 2024/05/29 (Wed) 05:21
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Thank you for your answer, yuri ！
I have an image that puzzle-oriented children are very smart. I think it is good to put Japanese words on the puzzle until 3 years old.

• M
• mail
• 2024/05/29 (Wed) 14:07
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It's been a long time since my children graduated, so I don't know if this applies to your situation now, but just an FYI ！

I had two children graduate from Hanahauoli to Punahou, Mainland college.　My daughter started at Pre-K first and my son attended Public for a year before moving to Hanahauoli, where we still have a great relationship with very good teachers and a wonderful family atmosphere.　　　I had my son take the PUNAHOU exam in Kinder, but they recommended that he take the 4th grade exam because his English vocabulary was less than that of native English speaking children, but we both started at PUNAHOU in 7th grade.　They say that bilingual children learn the language of their parents faster, especially if they spend a lot of time together. In our case, since I was speaking Japanese, I think my Japanese was stronger than my English because I spoke a lot of Japanese when I was little. But after attending the school, my English naturally became stronger.　I know it is a tough time for parents who are going through the schooling process, but please enjoy the time you spend together now ～.

• yuri
• 2024/05/29 (Wed) 16:16
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#22 Mr. M
Thank you for your valuable experience ！
I knew that once you start going to school, English would naturally become your main language. I was a little worried even though the doctor at the hospital said so,
but just by attending （ St. Clements for the past year ） from the age of 3, my English has improved a lot.
My husband is English only, so even though I raised him in Japanese,
the environment to learn English is more than Japanese families, and even now he is about 70% Japanese and 30% English, and he is good at Japanese. lol
Without knowing it, HANAHAUOLI, Montessori Community School
I was surprised that I could pass the entrance exam for HANAHAUOLI, Montessori Community School without even knowing it. I think the English environment will become stronger and stronger, but I have no regrets about raising my child in Japanese until the age of 3. ！
I feel that the bilingual brain is well formed.
Since my children are really leaving the nest, I would like to spend a lot of the precious time I have with them now, enjoying it.

• Manami
• 2024/06/01 (Sat) 20:03
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Hello. My son attended MCS preschool for two years, ages 3 and 4.
He attended Iolani from Kinder last year.
I think there is a good chance to get in from Kinder or Elementary
as they move from MCS pre to Kinder and then gosh darn it to Iolani or Punahou.
In fact, I was thinking of sending Elementary to MCS as well if I could not get into Iolani.
MCS Elementary also has 2 teachers per class of 18-20 students, so they can give you a lot more attention than other schools.
I was attracted to MCS there too, but decided to send her to Iolani where she was accepted because she could avoid taking the exam in the middle.
Like yuri, I am very convinced that you choose Middle because of your grades and interests at Elementary, and I am sure that you will develop that much academic ability and ability to make your own decisions
at MCS.
My son learned a lot at MCS preschool, and his independence and concentration were wonderfully developed. I believe this is what led to his success at Iolani.
We didn't have any tutoring or tutoring and he was able to pass without any connections.
Most of my classmates who were accepted to Punahou and Iolani Kinder also said that they did not have any tutoring or private tutoring
.
MCS has a high quality and level of teachers and a large number of teachers to the number of students, so there is no doubt that the students receive an excellent education.
Enjoy your future life at MCS ！!