How private schools discriminate against weak candidates to get better KCPE grades

Guardians peep through the opening at the gate at St. Annes Academy in Kajulu, Kisumu East on October 29, 2019. [Denish Ochieng/Standard]

The Ministry of Education is investigating reports that some private schools secretly register ‘weaker’ candidates in public schools to enable the institutions get higher mean scores.

One such school, St Anne’s Academy in Kisumu was busted yesterday after it emerged it had registered 26 of its 46 KCPE candidates at a public school more than 15km away without the knowledge of the parents.