Alliance High leads pack in picking best KCPE students

Elias Ketuyo of St Peters Elite School Gilgil who scored 426 marks celebrates with teachers and parents at the school. He has been selected to join Alliance Boys High School. (Photo: Kipsang Joseph)

The country's top candidates in this year's Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams have all been posted to national schools. Alliance High School, Alliance Girls High School and Kenya High are just a few of the "old" national schools that landed the top brains.

Andy Munyiri (440) heads to Alliance High School, Onyango Flavian (439) Alliance Girls High School while Koech June (439) is set to join Pangani Girls. A total of 1,083,456 pupils were accessed in the 2019 KCPE examinations and 1,075,201 have been placed in secondary schools.