As the LGBTQ+ community has garnered increased awareness, transgender athletes have become a more common occurrence in all levels of sports. A controversy in this summer’s Olympics posed a plethora of...
On Aug. 10, Hawaii’s primary election for the 25th State House District, covering Ala Moana, Kaka’ako, Downtown Honolulu, and McKinley High School, resulted in a historic upset.
Kim Coco Iwamoto unseated...
On Aug. 5, the incoming freshmen had their first ever assembly at McKinley High School’s gymnasium so they could interact with one another, as well as be informed through various speeches.
The day started...
Reporting assistance by Leif Allgood, Kena Anien Donald Ayon, Alex Azhari and Loraine Tanbalo
McKinley High School principal, Ron Okamura, spoke to The Pinion reporters on Sept. 9 in the newsroom...
On May 26, McKinley High School's class of 2024 celebrated the completion of their high school journeys. They first started their freshman year during mid-pandemic, most not stepping onto campus till...
The Smarter Balanced Assessment is a standardized test that was introduced to schools in early spring of 2015. Since then, the test has been used in 13 states, including Hawaii, to assess schools and students.
Recently,...
High schoolers are at an age where they are becoming sexually active, where the possibility of getting pregnant or getting someone pregnant is higher. Reproductive freedom and abortion rights in the United...
Click here to see a pdf of the magazine. The inside of the magazine is black and white. The gallery below includes color versions of any art that also had a color version submitted.
If you are a McKinley...
Natalia Nieves (c/o 2024) won the second round of McKinley High School's Poetry Out Loud competition on Jan. 16 in the auditorium. English teacher Jordin Carmichael was the lead coordinator. The school...
In the year since McKinley High School student Sara Yara (c/o 2024) was killed in a hit and run in a marked crosswalk on Kapiolani Boulevard Feb.15 2023, the community has worked to create safer...
Your donation will support the student journalists of McKinley High School - HI. Your contribution will allow us to purchase equipment and cover our annual website hosting costs. We also have advertising options.
