Description: Maunawili's Enrichment program services children in grades 3 - 6.  Students are nominated by their teachers or parents to be tested for the program. Testing is done in August.  If selected, a student remains in the program unless the teacher or parent feels that the program no longer supports the child’s needs.   In grades 3 - 4, the program is supplantive and the Enrichment Program is embedded with their Language Arts Curriculum.  In grades 5 - 6, the program is supplemental and the students are pulled-out during their Intervention block for instruction on thematic units. The program is not an accelerated course that will advance the student's placement in his/her grade. The program is project-based in which the students work on projects either independently or in groups and they learn at a more advanced, mature, and creative level.






Eligibility: Eligibility for the Enrichment program is based on four items:

  1. •Otis - Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT): This test is administered by the Enrichment Coordinator. It is a test to measure intellectual ability and is scored based on stanines 1 - 9. In order to qualify for the program, students must achieve a stanine of 8 or 9 in both the verbal and nonverbal sections of the test.

  2. •Hawaii State Assessment (HSA): This test is administered by the classroom teachers in grades 3, 4, 5 and 6. The test measures the student's achievement of the standards. The scores are recorded as follows: Meets with Excellence, Meets with Proficiency, Developing Proficiency, and Well Below. In order to qualify for the program, students must receive at least a "Meets with Proficiency". They must also achieve a stanine of 7, 8, or 9 in both reading and math in the TerraNova section of the HSA.

  3. •Williams Test of Creative Thinking: This test is administered by the Enrichment Coordinator. It is a test to measure a combination of verbal and non-verbal abilities and is scored based on fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration. Students in grades 3 - 6 must achieve a score of 95-102 out of 131 possible points.

  4. •Teacher Checklist: The classroom teacher completes a checklist on each student nominated. Students are evaluated using a Renzulli Scale based on their Motivation, Creativity, and Learning abilities.


  6. Once all the scores for each student have been collated, a screening committee made up of the administrator, an upper grade teacher, a lower grade teacher, and two other teachers meet to determine eligibility for the program. The names of each student is withheld and eligibility is determined on a case-by-case basis.