Students and teachers from Matunda Salvation Army mixed day Secondary school in Likuyani sub county continued to celebrate following its sterling performance in the 2016 Kenya certificate of secondary education (KCSE).
The school managed to scoop position one in the sub county beating academic giants such as St. John the Baptist Boys High School Likuyani and Moi Girls Nangili High School.
According to the school principal Mrs. Mary Manyonge, the school maintained a mean grade of 6.4, same as the previous year adding that for years the school has been posting its true results and it was not affected by the new regulations put in place by the education Cabinet
secretary Dr. Fred Matiang’i.
Mrs. Manyonge expressed her satisfaction with the results where the top six students Ambenje Cedric, Amyloy Oluoch, Obanda Eliud, Murunga Bill, Makokha John and Wafula Stephen managed an A- with 79, 77, 76, 76, 75, and 74 points respectively.
She said a total of 64 candidates managed to score above minimum university entry where by the school had 6A-, 7B+, 14B, 14B- 23C+ and 29C.
Mrs. Manyonge said hard work, commitment and cooperation between parents, students, teachers and the school management played a crucial role in the success of the school adding that the healthy competition witnessed between boys and girls was a strong indication that each gender was receiving adequate attention.
She advised continued parent counseling to ensure that students maintain moral standards especially as we are heading to the election period.
At the same time Mrs. Manyonge urged parents to stop scrambling for places in boarding secondary schools while ignoring day schools. She chided the tendency and reiterated that a majority of day schools had equal capacity to compete with established boarding schools
“My school is the best example, which every year registers the highest number of candidates in the sub county and has been able to record exemplary performances in the KCSE examinations for seven years running yet it’s a day co-educational school,” she said.
She said her school had managed to send a large number of her students to public universities besides producing top students in the sub county.
“Boarding schools pick the best students in KCPE, leaving us with average and below par students but all the same they end up performing in national examinations,” she added.
However she revealed that poverty in the area was a major hindrance to education arguing that besides being required to pay only sh 14,000 per year most students still failed to pay, leaving the school with huge fees arrears.
Elsewhere it was joy at Reflector village in Kongoni location Likuyani sub county after one of the girls from the village was ranked among the top 141 candidates who scored an A plain in the 2016 KCSE examinations.
Valarie Muhambe Muhalia who sat her examinations at Alliance Girls High school scored an A plain with a mean of 81 points.
Valarie who wants to be a marine engineer reveals that she lost her father in 2012 and her mother, Jackline Muhalia a primary school teacher, has been struggling to see her through and is now appealing to well-wishers to assist her realize her dream of joining university
saying she has others siblings whom her mother is struggling with