KCSE 2024 Ranking of Schools List Flagged
The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) scrapped the ranking of schools. Although the official list of KCSE 2024 top 100 schools is no longer available on the official Knec portal, dedicated websites and mainstream media houses usually go the extra mile by reaching out to school principals who gladly provide official KCSE mean scores that enable them to draw comparisons and come up with top- performing schools. Although the list may not be comprehensive, the mean scores presented are correct!
According to The Daily Nation for instance, Moi High School Kabarak in Nakuru County topped the list of top performers in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education after posting an impressive mean score of 10.43 in the KCSE results released this year.
The results were released by the CS Education on Monday at Moi Girls Eldoret national school in Uasin Gishu County.
Most top 100 slots in the KCSE 2024 top 100 schools were however dominated by public national and extra county schools.
The official KCSE 2024 distribution of grades for Moi High School Kabarak is as follows: A=62, A-=155, B+=102, B=60, B-=18, C+=4. The school achieved a great milestone after the whole class met the threshold for direct transition to university via KUCCPS.
Mudasa Academy also proved its worth after attaining a mean of 10.4 while Kapsabet Boys came third with 10.2.
Kindly note that the Ministry of Education (MOE) no longer ranks schools but provisional data collected by Nation shows some of the KCSE 2024 top schools in various counties and regions.
KCSE 2024 Top Schools in Counties and Regions
| School | Category, Level | KCSE
Mean (January 2024) |
Analysis |
| Moi Kabarak High School | Private | 10.43 B+ plus | Best Private Secondary School nationally. |
| Mudasa Academy | Private | 10.4 B+ plus | Best Private Secondary School in Vihiga County |
| Kenya High School | Public, National | 9.948 B+ plus | Best public girls national school |
| Chemelil Sugar Academy | Private | 9.89 B+ plus | Best Private Secondary School in Kisumu County |
| Kiage Tumaini Boys High School | Private | 9.745 B+ plus | Best Private Secondary School in Kisii County |
| Maranda High School | Public, National | 9.578 B+ plus | Best boys’ school in Siaya County |
| Maseno School | Public, National | 9.543 B+ plus | Best boys’ school in Kisumu County |
| Loreto High School, Limuru | Public, National | 9.54 B+ plus | Best girls’ school in Kiambu County |
| Friends School Kamusinga | Public, National | 9.36501 B plain | Best boys’ school in Bungoma County |
This is How KNEC Grades Schools; New KNEC Grading System 2024
Outgoing CS Education Ezekiel Machogu directed the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) to review and adjust the university cluster subjects that determine which course a student qualifies to pursue based on their subject performance.
This new directive opened a new window of opportunities for thousands of students who took the 2023 KCSE examinations for they now have a shot at prestigious university courses that were out of reach for their predecessors.
The directive is part of changes in the grading of candidates adopted in September following recommendations by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms.
“This is as a result of the application of a new grading system that reduced the number of compulsory subjects required to compute the mean grade,” said the CS at the Moi Girls School, Eldoret, during the release of the 2023 KCSE examination results.
“The new reform measure will allow a larger number of students to pursue courses of their choice at the universities, diploma and TVET training at certificate and artisan levels.”
The CS also instructed KUCCPS to conduct awareness and career guidance exercises for last year’s candidates, particularly on the new clusters and funding model.
