What are you most proud of? "We are most proud that for more than 165 years, we continue to offer quality Catholic education to the children in our community," said St. Ann's Model Schools director of education Daphne Kauhane. "Our service-learning curriculum enables us to live out the core values of the Sacred Hearts and our school motto A'ole Nou, Wale No — Not for Ourselves Alone — by reaching out to our local and global communities spiritually, socially and financially."

What is your biggest challenge? "Our greatest challenge is to continue to meet the academic and emotional needs of our children," Kauhane said. "Consistent restructuring, monitoring and sustaining of the teaching/learning process in our classrooms are always part of our action plan."

Special events: Schoolwide author's day, scholarship dinner and dance, Taste of St. Ann's, Christmas and May Day programs.

AT A GLANCE

Where: 46-125 Haiku Road, Kane'ohe

Grades: Preschool through eighth grade

Enrollment: 413 students

Race/ethnicity enrollment: About 39 percent of the student body is part-Hawaiian, followed by white, Asian, Hispanic and other.

Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility: 18 percent qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school doesn't participate in the federal lunch program, but does follow the guidelines.

Computers: 32 computers in a lab; a total of 28 computers in the classrooms.

Director of education: Daphne Kauhane, with 34 years of service in the parish

School nickname: Na Ali'i

School colors: Red and white

History: Parish tradition says that a Hawaiian chief who couldn't find lamp oil asked the Catholic priest for some, and in gratitude gave the missionaries of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts the 6-acre property in He'eia where the school now sits. The school opened in 1841. Thirty years later, a boarding school was established for boys. A high school was added in 1954. It closed in 1969, and two decades later, in 1989, a preschool was added.

Well-known alumnus: The Rev. Herman Gomes, who is the church pastor

Web address: www.stannshi.org

Phone: 247-3092

Reach Suzanne Roig at sroig@honoluluadvertiser.com.