Puunene School, Historic school building in Puunene, Hawaii.

Puunene School is a two-story concrete building in Classical Revival style, erected in 1922 on 10 acres (4.0 ha) of land in Puʻunēnē, central Maui. It replaced an earlier four-room school on the site built for 350 students, and at its opening it was Maui's largest elementary school, holding about 1,000 pupils.

The Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, a division of Alexander & Baldwin, built the school in 1922 on 10 acres it had donated in 1913. The two-story Classical Revival concrete building replaced a four-room school on the site and became Maui's largest elementary school, with about 1,000 pupils. After the area declined in the 1950s it housed special education classes, and in 1979 it became a Department of Education administrative annex. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 22, 2000.

The school's name comes from the Puʻunēnē plantation village that the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company ran around it. In 1937 science teacher Soichi Sakamoto trained boys in a Three Year Swim Club, making them swim 50-yard sprints against the 15 mph current of a sugar-cane ditch; Jose Balmores, Keo Nakama, "Bunny" Nakama, "Halo" Hirose and Bill Smith raced nationally, and Smith won 400- and 800-metre relay gold in 1948.

The school grounds are located in Puunene on Maui and are no longer operating as an active educational facility. Visitors should plan accordingly, as access may be limited and the property is primarily preserved for its historical value.

In 1937 science teacher Soichi Sakamoto began training boys in a Three Year Swim Club for the 1940 Tokyo Olympics, using the sugar plantation irrigation ditch with its 15 mph current. Jose Balmores, Keo Nakama, "Bunny" Nakama, "Halo" Hirose and Bill Smith competed nationally, but the 1940 and 1944 Games were cancelled; Smith won gold in the 400- and 800-metre relays in 1948.