When they return to school on Monday after spring break, let’s hope some 350 students of King Kamehameha III Elementary School will regain much-needed stability and sense of place.

The school was destroyed in the Aug. 8 Lahaina wildfires, and students have been sharing facilities with Princess Nahi‘ena‘ena Elementary peers. Now three months later, a replacement $78 million campus is ready, thanks to a host of federal and local agencies and efforts.

King Kamehameha III’s temporary campus at Pulelehua, Maui, will operate for up to five years. In that time, let’s look for robust learning to resume, and enrollment to grow to meet its pre-fire count of 600-plus students.