(Confirmed) Form One Placements Out! 2023 KCPE candidates to know 2024 Form One placements on Monday
The over 1.4 million candidates who sat for the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) in November 2023 will know the schools they have been selected to join at form one level in January 2024 on Monday, Decemebr 18, 2023.
Confirmed Venue for the Release of the 2023/2024 Form One Placement Results
This is the last cohort of the KCPE in the 8-4-4 system ushering in the Competency-Based Curriculum.
In an official letter addressed to all Regional Directors of Education and the County Directors of Education, Dr Abdi invited stakeholders to a meeting that will be chaired by Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu.
“The agenda of the meeting will be the implementation of education programmes at the field offices and schools across the country. The CS will also release the results of the 2024 Form One placement exercise in the same venue,” Dr Abdi said.
The National Parents Association chairperson, Mr Silas Obuhatsa urged the Ministry of Education to ensure fairness in the selection.
This comes as some of the 2023 KCPE candidates, whose results had discrepancies, said the Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) is yet to rectify the anomalies.
Some parents have gone to the Knec headquarters seeking redress. The candidates now want Knec to give them another exam once schools reopen for the first term next year alongside more than 9000 others who missed the KCPE examinations.
On November 23, while releasing the national tests, Education Cabinet Secretary, Ezekiel Machogu said 9,354 candidates will sit for a special test in January to ensure the last cohort under the 8-4-4 does not miss out on Form 1 admission.
In case you are dissatisfied with your form one placement, this is what to do
For further instructions on how to join the secondary schools the Ministry has advised candidates, parents, or guardians to get more information on the website www.education.go.ke
Parents can also access the 2023 Form One placement results by texting the candidate’s index number to 22263.
On the other hand, schools will access and download their selection lists by logging onto the NEMIS platform.
Assistance may be obtained by writing an email to placement@education.go.ke.
List of most preferred secondary schools
| S/N | Secondary School | Number of students selecting | Capacity/ No selected |
| 1 | Nanyuki High School | 154,524 | 384 |
| 2 | Kabianga High School | 142,640 | 480 |
| 3 | Pangani Girls | 124,982 | 384 |
| 4 | Nyandarua High School | 123,976 | 288 |
| 5 | Alliance Girls High School | 105,053 | 384 |
| 6 | Maseno School | 104,581 | 528 |
| 7 | Nakuru High School | 100,840 | 336 |
| 8 | Kapsabet Boys High | 95,642 | 384 |
| 9 | Butere Girls High School | 94,774 | 432 |
| 10 | Mbooni Girls High | 93,515 | 240 |
| 11 | Mang’u High School | 93,271 | 384 |
| 12 | Alliance High School | 87,229 | 384 |
| 13 | Kisumu Girls High School | 86,456 | 384 |
| 14 | Nakuru Girls High School | 85,764 | 240 |
| 15 | Moi Girls High School, Eldoret | 85,494 | 336 |
| 16 | Totals | 1,578,741 | 5,568 |
The Education Ministry, while announcing the placement results on Monday, December 18, said 38,797 pupils have been placed in national schools, 214 960 extra-county schools, 218,456 county schools, 726,311 sub-county schools, 2,045 special needs secondary schools, and 9,128 at refugee camp schools.
The Education Ministry said all the KCPE 2023 pupils were placed in secondary schools. In the 2023 KCPE exam, 1.4 million pupils sat the exam.
Our Media team, however, understands that there’s a category of candidates who can’t be selected to join secondary schools due to certain reasons including confinement in correctional facilities.
