Statistics: A secondary school for every 20,000 Nairobi city residents!

                                                                                                 Secondary School students

The situation is no better at secondary school level, with inadequate schools and a shortage of 633 teachers recorded.
According the task force, although there has been phenomenal growth of secondary schools in the city, many have been converted into boarding schools and others elevated to national schools, allowing competition for admission from outside the county and minimising chances for city kids.

As a result, the report notes that the transition rates from primary to secondary schools at the national rate stands at 70 per cent as compared to only 53 percent in Nairobi. This is worsened by the ever-increasing fees in secondary schools, with the cheaper day schools converting into more expensive boarding schools, thus locking out children from their immediate vicinity.

Children with special needs are particularly disadvantaged as currently, the county has only one public special secondary school (Tree Side Secondary School for the Deaf), while out of the 205 primary schools, only 51 of them integrate learners with special needs.

A draft physical planning handbook of the Nairobi Master Plan prepared by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) recommends that there should be a secondary school for every 20,000 residents, with a buffer region of one kilometre.
“This creates a requirement of approximately 200 secondary schools in Nairobi,” notes JICA.
At the moment, Nairobi has 78 public secondary schools, and about 46 public primary schools have given part of their land for establishment of secondary schools.