KCPE 2019: How to Check High School Admission

Education Cabinet Secretary, George Magoha, on Monday, December 2, unveiled a platform for KCPE 2019 candidates to confirm the secondary schools they have been selected to join.

In a morning press conference at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD), the CS revealed that the candidates could access the information by sending a text message of their index number to 22263. The message costs Ksh25 using Safaricom line.

The top three candidates in this year's KCPE have all been posted to national schools with Andy Munyiri (440) headed to Alliance High School, Onyango Flavian (439) selected to join Alliance Girls High School and Koech June (439) admitted to Pangani Girls.

He further revealed that the candidates would be required to report to their respective schools starting Monday, January 13, 2020, and the latest by Friday 17, 2020.

He also disclosed that more than 95% of students would be admitted to their school of choice especially considering that they had chosen up to 11 schools.

KCPE top Candidate Andy Munyiri at Kenyans.co.ke studios on Thursday, November 21, 2019. He has been admitted to Alliance High School.

The top three school choices by the candidates were Pangani Girls with 111,817 applications against a capacity of only 336 students, Alliance High School at (83,489) and Kenya High School (49,727).

This years' national exams ran from November 29 till November 31, with 1,088,986 candidates having sat for this year's national exams.

During the announcement on Monday, November 18, CS Magoha had assured all candidates that they would have a place in secondary school.

Out of all the students who sat for the 2019 KCPE, 50.31 per cent were boys and 49.82 per cent were girls. The total number of students who scored above 400 marks was 9770, a drop from last year's who were above 11,000.

Education CS George Magoha (right), Education PS Belio Kipsang (center) and TSC CEO Nancy Macharia at Knec headquarters shortly before the 2019 KCPE results release on Monday, November 18, 2019. (PHOTO/ Simon Kiragu, Kenyans.co.ke)