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James Campbell High School, often simply Campbell High School or JCHS, is a public coeducational high school located at 91-980 North Road in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, 15 miles away from downtown Honolulu. The school serves grades nine through twelve, has an enrollment just over 3000 students, and is part of the Leeward Subdistrict of the Hawaii State Department of Education. It also serves children of Department of Defense employees who live in military housing in Ewa Beach, Ewa and Iroquois Point. Like Farrington High School and Waipahu High School, over half of the students are of Philippine descent. The school's educational program, Smaller Learning Communities, hopes to help students in a chosen career pathway, thus benefiting them in precise occupational skills for the future. , James Campbell High School became the second Hawaii high school〔(IB Schools in Hawaii )〕 (along with the private Mid-Pacific Institute) to gain the status of International Baccalaureate World School, expecting to award prospective JCHS graduates beginning at Commencement 2010. The school has a variety of programs such as agriculture, marine science, newspaper, yearbook, and television production media. James Campbell High School in Ewa Beach serves seven rural and two military communities in that area. The school includes 11 major buildings and an athletic complex on 38 acres. It offers comprehensive programs in vocational, technical, academic and special education. The student population is ethnically diverse and includes Filipinos, Caucasians, part-Hawaiians, Japanese, Hispanics, Indo-Chinese, Samoans, and African-Americans. James Campbell High School was accredited in 2011 by the Western Association of Schools & Colleges for a period of six years with a mid-term review.〔http://www.campbellhigh.org/〕 ==History== The school is named after real estate tycoon James Campbell who was at the forefront of Ewa's prosperous progression into a sugar cane plantation community. Campbell immigrated from Ireland to the United States at the age of 13 and worked as a carpenter. After two years, he began work on a whaling ship in the South Pacific which became shipwrecked. Fortunately he survived this disaster and lived in Tahiti until he boarded another whaling vessel bound for Maui, Hawaii. He then ventured into real estate, buying a large arid area of land in Ewa, Oahu, Hawaii. Many believed his investment to be a waste of money due to the dry and unproductive climate of Ewa, but his artesian well changed the landscape into a thriving sugar cane plantation. From this, his legacy continues in the community, as well as in the high school. James Campbell High School was originally located at what is now Ilima Intermediate. Since its establishment in 1962, the school has grown to accommodate the increasing population of the 'Ewa area. James Campbell High School is has the largest population of any school in the state of Hawaii. June 1965 was the first year James Campbell High School held a graduation ceremony for its first senior class (approximately 225 students). The school celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Campbell High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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