Angry parents on Monday, January 12, stormed St Thomas Raganga Secondary School in Kisii County and chased away teachers following the school's poor performance in the 2025 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE).
The parents, while expressing their frustrations, stormed the institution and attacked the teachers, including the principal, before locking the administration bloc.
The parents accused the teachers of allegedly failing their children in the 2025 KCSE examinations despite what they described as heavy investment in their children's education.
As tensions escalated, all the teachers ran for safety, with the staff room left deserted as parents and other villagers took control of the school compound.
According to reports, the school’s top candidate attained a D plain in the national examinations, while most students recorded D minus grades, with a handful scoring Es.
In the footage seen by Kenyans.co.ke, parents and some of the students marched to the school, hoisting twigs in protest against the institution's dismal performance.
"I brought my children to this school so that they could get an education, so that they can help me in the future. But the problem is that they have failed and that they can no longer help me the way I expected," said a parent.
"I currently have a child who is in form four, and he does not know anything. He is currently in his fourth year, yet they have yet to cover the form one syllabus," the aggrieved parent added.
Parents who addressed the media said the school’s dismal performance in the 2025 KCSE examinations had dimmed their children’s prospects, arguing that the learners had the ability to achieve far better results.
The school, which was established in 1992, has long struggled with poor KCSE performance over the past years, but ironically, the school bears the motto, 'Education for life.'
Overall Candidates' Performance in 2025 KCSE Exams
The latest development follows three days after Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba released the 2025 KCSE examinations, with several top schools posting impressive results.
Of the 993,226 candidates who sat the 2025 KCSE examination, 492,012 were male, while 501,214 were female, representing 49.54 per cent and 50.46 per cent of the total candidature, respectively.
The number of candidates with direct university entry qualifications of mean grade C+ and above was 270,715, an improvement compared to 246,391 in 2024.
The number of candidates with grade C- (minus) and above was 507,131, while the number of candidates who got grade D+ and above was 634,082.
