HONOLULU (KHON2) — Big changes are coming to the Ewa Beach community–and it’s hitting close to home for hundreds of families.
Ewa Elementary, already the largest elementary school in the state, is bursting at the seams.
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At Ewa Elementary School, there’s no such thing as extra space. Classrooms are packed. Hallways echo with the sound of nearly 1,300 students–and that’s 100 more than the campus was designed to hold.
“New Homes are coming up as we speak, and so they’re going to keep coming, and unless we find a way to relocate some of the students, what’s overcrowded now, it’s going to be worse next year,” said Stanley Tamashiro, Ewa Elementary School principal…