Kagumo Boys High School is euphoric, having bounced back to the top of the county on Thursday after it posted its best ever exam results in the history of 8-4-4 education system.
The first ever Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination was taken in 1989.
The school's 252 students obtained a mean score of 10.5 in last year's KCSE exam, up from 9.6 the previous year.
Jubilation rent the air and business at the institution came to a standstill as students and teachers poured out of the classrooms on hearing the news.
"Our achievement was not by luck. We worked hard for this type of performance and we hope we will repeat the same next year by the grace of God," school principal Lawrence Kiwara said.
He said the performance is a throwback to the school's glory days in the 1970s and early 1980s when it sent more students to university than some provinces did.
There were 50 As, 104 A minuses, 58B pluses, 21 Bs, 16 B minuses, two C pluses and one C minus.
Kiwara was posted to the institution two years ago from Murang’a High School.
Elsewhere in Nyeri, Othaya Boys High School, with a mean score of 9.0, beat constituency giants in last year’s KCSE exam.Out of the 189 form four candidates, 30 boys scored above A minus.
On Thursday when the results were released, students and teachers poured out into the streets of Othaya, celebrating their school's achievement.
They pledged to do better in this year's exam.
The school beat Karima Boys High School, which had a mean score of 8.25, Othaya Girls High School (8.24), Kenyatta High
School Mahiga (8.20), Mahiga Girls Secondary School (7.97), Chinga Boys High School (7.67) and Chinga Girls High School (6.77).
Kanjuri High School in Mathira had a mean score of 9.29, up from 8.65 the previous year.