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End of an era: No more Form One admissions as reforms start

Educatio PS Belio Kipsang during a media briefing at the Coast Regional Commissioner's office in Mombasa on January 2, 2025, where he said 85 per cent of junior secondary schools have received Grade 9 textbooks. [Robert Menza, Standard] 

Starting from the 2025 academic year, secondary schools will no longer have Form One admissions, marking a departure from the norm of the past four decades.

Nearly a million candidates who sat the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) were placed in Form One at various categories of secondary schools – National, Extra County, County and Sub-County - which they joined in mid-January 2024.

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