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Meteitei celebrates top KCSE grades

Mr Barnabas Kipkirui Too, Senior Principal.

By Leonard Angatia

Meteitei Boys High School located in Nandi County, Tinderet constituency maintained its good performance in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations.

The school posted good results to rank among the best in the country at position 44 in the 2020 KCSE exams, emerging the second best boys school in Nandi County behind Kapsabet Boys High School.

With a mean score of 8.8, an improvement from 7.1 in 2019 which was a positive deviation of 1.702, the school managed to get direct university entry for 219 students out of the registered 225 in last year’s class.

Meteitei had a 97% university transition which has seen its performance prowess move to greater heights.

Although none of the candidates scored A plain grade, 14 emerged with A-, 45 B+, 82 B plain, 57 B-, 21 C+ and only six getting C plain.

Meteitei situated in the picturesque hills of Tinderet, is an extra-county school with 1240 students in six streams per class, handled by 53 teachers employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and four by the Board of Management.

Senior Principal Barnabas Kipkirui Too said hard work by students and elaborate programmes that control every individual to do what is expected in school contributed to the schools good performance.

Syllabus coverage is done by February of every year in all classes, after which they embark on revision in preparation for examinations. Discipline which is mandatory in school with no compromise for any student, and the culture of teachers not conceding defeat has pushed everyone to go an extra mile in achieving the best. Principal Too added that their burning desire was to improve performance through excellence. “We have performed well especially in Biology which has been elusive since 2018. It is a coincidence that our mean score target last year was 8.8 and that is the exact score we have now,” a surprised principal stated.

He added that they have worked on tail grades whereby the last candidates only six students got C plain.

The Principal challenged the current form four class to emulate their predecessors and even do better.

However, he shared the main challenge is inadequate infrastructure especially in tuition and boarding sections and urged the Ministry of Education to consider assisting schools in those areas for better performance in years to come. “After Covid-19 outbreak last year, we introduced psycho-social support through counselling of our candidates to bring their minds back to school,” noted Too.

He said Covid-19 affected the entire system and encouraged students and teachers across the country to adhere to Ministry of Health protocols.

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14 emerged with A-, 45 B+, 82 B plain, 57 B-, 21 C+ and only six getting C plain.

Hard work by students and elaborate programmes that control every individual to do what is expected in school contributed to the school’s good performance.

-Senior Principal Barnabas Kipkirui.