Schools in Kisii and Nyamira Counties posted exemplary performance in the just released 2022 KCSE examination results stirring public debate across the country with Kenyans taking to social media and other platforms to discuss what could have led to such a sharp increase in performance.
A critical examination of the results from 12 schools in the two counties show that some schools that had posted a mean of between 5 and 7 in the 2021 KCSE results have posted a mean of 9 or 10 in the just released results.
Several schools such as Nyambaria, Kebabe girls, Kebirigo boys and Mobamba high schools had all their candidates securing direct university admission.
Nyambaria High School for instance had 488 candidates who sat for the exams. All the candidates will be joining various universities. The school had 28 A plains, 383 A- with the least scoring a B (plain). The school mean score being 10.897, perhaps it could be the highest in the country.
In the 2021 exam, the school posted a mean score of 9.30.
The school Principal, thanked all the candidates of last year for the results that they have posted, and he said he shall always remember them for putting him in the records because of the tremendous performance.
The school board Chairman Lazarus Momanyi, on his part, said the school infrastructure has improved a lot in the last few years because of the financial support from the government. He noted that they are very happy with the performance of the last year’s candidates.
Mobamba High School still in Nyamira County which had 348 candidates in the 2022 exam managed to send all of them to the university. The school had a mean of 5.11 in 2021. It recorded a positive deviation of 4.19 thus getting a mean of 9.28 in last year’s exam.
It’s a similar tale from Kebirigo High School, Nyakongo Boys, Kebabe Girls, St. Kizito Nyansiongo Boys and several others; with the administrators in these schools dispelling the notion that something is afoot.
Beatrice Bironga, principal Kebabe Girls Secondary School, thanked her teachers for their hard work. She said without their hard work and support, the school would not have posted their current mean.
Also recording a sharp rise in its mean score in the last exam was Kuura Secondary School which in 2021 had a mean score of 5.37; that rose to 9.11 in 2022.
St, Pauls Igonga, which had a mean score of 6.2 in the last exam, had a significant rise in 2022 at 10.26.
Cardinal Otunga Secondary School, which also had a stellar performance, raised its mean score from 7.44 to 10.76.
Nyabururu High School, Kisii School, Kiage Tumaini and Nyabisase Secondary School were among those that shone in the 2021 KCSE exam.
With principals insisting that the results are a product of their sheer hard work and determination, it is expected that the larger Gusii region will remain on the spotlight over the 2022 performance.
Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu did not address the issue of examination irregularities as he released the 2022 KCSE results.
