About 1,733 schools will receive title deeds after years of court battles, local conflicts and massive land grabbing.
This comes as the National Land Commission is preparing to publish names of land grabbers and their associates.
"We are going to publish public notices of names of all grabbers on local dailies," chairman Muhammad Swazuri said yesterday.
Courts have been marked as safe havens for grabbers who have been determined to cling to public land, he said.
Swazuri said 10,047 schools have applied for title deeds since last year, representing just 45 per cent of all public primary and secondary schools.
This chunk is yet to receive land documents due to various reasons, Swazuri said.
He said 849 schools that have applied to have land documents under names of local authorities.
"We are now transiting them to the Treasury CS because he is the custodian of all public titles," Swazuri said.
He spoke during the final day of the 12th Kenya Primary School Heads Association conference in Mombasa.
Some 354 schools that had applied for title deeds have already been issued with letters of allotment and are awaiting survey.
Thirty-eight schools were found to have expired leases and the commission was working to renew the leases, Swazuri said.
The chairman said 345 institutions had applied, despite the land bearing Treasury's name.
About 536 schools applied for title deeds for non-education activities, Swazuri said.
"Teachers submitted to be given title deeds for cattle dips and markets," he said.
The chairman said 385 schools had conflict pitting the national government against the county.
"Here, some ECDE classrooms have been set up in primary schools. ECDE is managed by counties, while primary schools are under the national government," he said.
Swazuri wants these lands subdivided immediately to enhance smooth learning.
"Some 147 schools had title deeds issued in the name of local authorities and we are now transferring them to the CS Treasury," he said.
About 158 title deeds for lands belonging to schools, submitted for approval, were found to have been erroneously issued to private developers.
The chairman said they have launched investigations to arrest land grabbers.
Swazuri said 457 schools do not have valid documents for processing of title deeds.
While some 754 schools from urban areas do not have planning documents so title deeds could not have been issued.
Thirty-six public schools sponsored by churches applied though their lands were owned by these sponsors, thus complicating matters, according to the NLC.
Boundary disputes were associated with 247 schools that had applied for title deeds.
About 1,800 schools in settlement schemes had applied, but could not be given title deeds because these lands have not yet been discharged.
Swazuri said 2,700 applications are waiting for documentation.
Many schools are yet to apply and some that have applied are built in gazetted areas, thus issuing title deeds will be tricky, he added.