KCPE performance drops as stringent steps to curb cheating bear fruit

Samson Gift Muthengi of New Hope Community School from the slums of Mishomoroni in Mombasa County is lifted high by fellow students and teachers as they celebrated through Mombasa streets on 1st December, 2016 afternoon. Muthengi scored 410 marks in the 2016 KCPE. New Hope is an orphanage children's home and a School with students from the surrounding slums. PHOTO BY MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD

Celebrations broke out in Coast schools, with the traditional high performers retaining their superiority in KCPE results released yesterday.

The best candidate in the region, Gideon Maina of Mwatate Junior Academy in Taita Taveta, scored 423 marks, in exams termed the most credible.