The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) on Friday, January 19, released the 2023 Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) results.
Parents and other stakeholders, however, will access the results from their headteachers who have the logins to the KNEC CBA portal.
Officials at KNEC confirmed to Kenyans.co.ke that the results were published online following a directive by Education CS Ezekiel Machogu.
"We are releasing a notice this afternoon to ask parents to check with their schools," one of the officials stated.
Headteachers and parents who spoke to us also confirmed the same.
"KPSEA Assessment Reports have been uploaded on the KNEC CBA portal. We can now download them. We will release results for individual learners and the overall school performance," a headteacher told parents via a WhatsApp group.
"The Head Teacher is currently downloading the results slips. We shall communicate to you how you will get the results slips," another headteacher told parents, in a message seen by Kenyans.co.ke.
The results were, however, released four days after the students reported to their respective schools on Monday, January 15. The Grade 6 students who proceeded to Grade 7 were the first to sit the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).
Speaking during Murang’a County Education Day on January 14, the CS Ezekiel Machogu directed teachers to allow students to join Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) before the release of the results.
Students who could not purchase new uniforms were also asked to report with their Grade 6 ones as they continued with the transition.
Headteachers were further urged to charge the stipulated school fees and desist from forcing parents to incur extra charges.
“All the 1,282,574 candidates who sat the 2023 Kenya Primary Schools Education Assessment be allowed to join Grade 7 in the Junior Secondary Schools hosted by their respective primary schools where they attended Grade 1-6," Machogu stated.
"Grade 7 learners be allowed to attend school in uniforms that they used while in Grade 6 in 2023 as parents and guardians make efforts to buy new outfits for the JSS," he added.
