965,501 KCSE 2024 candidates to get exam results early next week

A total of 965,501 candidates who sat the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams will know what they did on Tuesday next week when the Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba will release the results to the public.

Sources have revealed that preparations are in top gear for the national exercise planned to take place next week.

The marking was completed, analysis was done and results are ready for release. President Ruto was already briefed on the results by the CS in Kisii at Kisii State Lodge.

The results will be released in Nairobi at Knec Mtihani House led by top education officials.

However candidates will no longer access their results through the SMS system. The candidates will access results through the KNEC website.

On the KNEC website, the candidate will go to the KCSE 2024 section to access their results. Candidates will then enter their index numbers and names as per their registration data.

In 2023 KCSE 201,133 candidates met the university cut-off grade after scoring C+ and above where 96,235 were female and 104,898 were male.

CS Ogamba had on Tuesday announced that the results will be released in the second week of January 2025.

The CS made the announcement during his attendance at the Omogusii Cultural Festival at Kenyoro School Grounds in North Mugirango Constituency, Nyamira County.

“The KCSE examination results, will be released within the next two weeks.  Traditionally, the KCSE exams were normally announced in January and we are keeping to that tradition and we are releasing them within the next two weeks,” he said.

The CS also addressed potential confusion surrounding the timing of exam result releases.

He clarified that while results were typically announced in December, this was for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE), which was not conducted this year due to the implementation of the new education curriculum.

“The exams previously released in December were the KCPE results, but this year, we did not have that examination. This may have led to some confusion,” Ogamba explained.

This year’s exams took place in 10,755 centers, with a record-high 965,501 candidates, an increase from 903,138 in 2023.

The marking of exams concluded on December 13, 2024, after an extensive effort by examiners across 35 designated marking centers.

Alliance High School, State House Girls, Sunshine High School, Starehe Girls, Limuru Girls, Thika High, Buruburu High school and Alliance Girls are some of the centres where marking was done.

Others include Murang’a TTC, Moi Forces Academy (Nairobi), Upper Hill High, Loreto Girls, St. Georges High, Lang’ata High, Kenya High, Moi Girls Isinya and Lenana School.

However a number of schools including some top schools were implicated in this years exam malpractices leading to their teachers being blocked from taking part in the marking exercise.

A number of principals implicated in cheating have also been transferred by Teachers Service Commission (TSC).

Many candidates are afraid that they may face degrading or tough marking because of the exam cheating incidences in their schools.

This years KCSE saw many teachers being dragged into court over exam malpractices. The cases were rife in Nyanza region.

This is despite Knec introducing new stringent measures to stop cheating in exam centres.

In Siaya a total of 13 teachers were arrested in alleged KCSE exam malpractice. The teachers were released on sh.100K bond each.

In Nandi four teachers including the centre manager of Kamimei Secondary School in Nandi County were arrested after investigations showed that a paper belonging to one candidate of the centre was circulating on social media.

In Homa Bay ten teachers from Pala Masogo Secondary School were slapped with a sh. 2 million bond each.

In Kiambu two candidates from Membley High School were found in possession of unauthorized material inside the examination hall. The two were caught with mobile phones just before sitting on the paper.

The KCSE exams officially came to an end on November 22, 2024, which saw the commencement of marking by examiners.

This is how schools performed in KCSE 2022

List of Top fifty Secondary Schools nationally in KCSE 2022 with mean score.

1.Nyambaria High School – 10.89

2.Cardinal Otunga High School – 10.76

3.Asumbi Girls High School – 10.371

4.Mangu High School – 10.36

5.St Antony’s Boys High School – 10.33

6.Mudasia Academy – 10.3

7.St Paul Igonga Dok Secondary – 10.24

8.Alliance High School – 10.2

9.Moi High School Kabarak – 10.13

10.Kapsabet Boys High School – 10.1

11.Kanga High School – 9.97

12.Kenya High School – 9.95

13.St Paul’s Gekano Boys – 9.95

14.Matinyani Secondary School – 9.94

15.St Brigid’s Girls High School – 9.92

16.Orero High School – 9.9

17.Samoei Boys Secondary School – 9.89

18.Chebwagan High School – 9.74

19.Maseno School – 9.64

20.Ogande Girls High School – 9.62

21.Sawagongo High School – 9.61

22.Kagumo High School – 9.57

23.Murang’a High School – 9.55

24.Nyakongo Boys High School – 9.54

25.Nairobi School – 9.54

26.Maranda School – 9.54

27.Cheborgei Boys High School – 9.44

28.Light Academy Nairobi – 9.39

29.Korongoi Girls – 9.36

30.Mobamba High School – 9.28

31.Friends School Kamusinga – 9.24

32.Maryhill Girls High School – 9.23

33.Saye Mixed Secondary School – 9.22

34.Kabianga High School – 9.22

35.Kabianga School – 9.21

36.Moi Tea Girls School – 9.21

37.Mbita High School – 9.2

38.Kisii School – 9.12

39.St Clare Girls Secondary School – 9.1

40.St Kizito Nyansiongo Boys – 9.05

41.Kapsabet Girls – 8.98

42.Metkei Girls High School – 8.96

43.Agoro Sare – 8.93

44.St Mary’s Kibabi Boys High School – 8.93

45.Ruth Kaptui Girls High School Kasok – 8.87

46.Meteitei Secondary School – 8.77

47. Dr. Aggrey School

48. Matuga Girls High School

49. Kenyatta Mwatate

50. Kwale High School