McKINLEY HIGH IS NEXT
Here's some background on Central Middle and McKinley High.
Both schools started as the "Fort Street English Day School," which was founded in 1865 at a church on Fort Street in Honolulu. In November 1869, Princess Ruth Keʻelikōlani offered to house the Fort Street English Day School at her palace, Keoua Hale (where the middle school stands today).
In 1895 the upper grades became "Kula Kiekie o Honolulu," commonly called, "Honolulu High School."
In 1907 Honolulu High School was renamed "President William McKinley High School" (by those who supported annexation and hijacked Hawaii’s school system to erase Hawaiiʻs history and purge Hawaiian national identity). That year, the high school was moved to the corner of Beretania and Victoria Streets, facing Admiral Thomas Square.
In 1923, McKinley High School was relocated a block away to its present location on King Street. The Beretania-Victoria site became "Linekona (Lincoln) School"... and today is the "Honolulu Museum of Art School".
Meanwhile, the lower grades of the Fort Street English Day School that remained at Keoua Hale, Princess Ruthʻs Palace, became known as Central Grammar School then changed briefly to Keʻelikōlani School. But in 1928, because “the name was hard to pronounce” (the excuse given by those using the school system to erase Hawaiiʻs history), it was changed to "Central Junior High School"... which in 1932 morphed into "Central Intermediate School," then Central Middle School in 1997.
Central Middle School and McKinley High School share the same roots. So it is only right that, for the sake of setting the historical record straight, if one is corrected, the other one should be too!
