- Bethany Academy in Kwale County produced the overall best candidates for the Coast.
- Alex Muturi of Busy Bee Academy emerged best with 421 marks.
Private schools at the Coast performed better than public primary schools in the just-released 2020 KCPE exam results.
Bethany Academy in Kwale county produced the overall best candidates for the region with 424 marks out of the possible 500.
Moses Furaha Charo led the pack with straight As in all the five subjects.
Charo, 15, says he wants to study law and become Kenya’s Chief Justice.
“I sacrificed a lot and I have been studying hard. I want to become a Chief Justice,” he said.
Charo’s classmate Assumpta Chiwo Nyawallow scored 412 marks.
Bethany Academy managing director Young Lee said they had 12 candidates who sat the exam and six of them scored 400 marks and above.
“We had a mean score of 396,” Lee said.
In Mombasa, Alex Muturi of Busy Bee Academy emerged best with 421 marks.
Muturi, 15, said he had expected to score above 400 marks in the exam.
“I had prepared well for the exams and had expected to get good results, I would want to become a civil engineer in the future,” he said.
He said he would love to join Mangu High School for secondary school education.
Muturi’s guardian, Eunice Makena, said she took him in when he was only three years old.
“He is my sister’s son. I took him in when he was just three and I’m really impressed by his results today,” Makena said.
Busy Bee registered 31 candidates for the exam and six of them scored 400 marks and above, according to their headteacher.
Little known St Irene’s Nursery and Primary School in Mikindani had a student in the top after Dora Mutanu scored 418 marks.
St Augustine Preparatory School Tudor, a public primary school in Mombasa, had their best candidate scoring 417 marks, according to the headteacher Jane Mukoba.
That was Kerubo Doreen. She was followed by Osieko Bleccy with 409 and Jasmine Musimbi with 400 marks.
Kwale Methodist Academy, which registered 20 candidates, had two of them scoring 400 marks and above.
Fatuma Adam had 415 marks and Neema Moraa scored 405, whereas the lowest scored 308 marks.
In Momba’s Fairfield Academy Bamburi, Allan Kiptum emerged top with 414 marks.
The school had 71 candidates and four of them scored above 400.
Kiptum was followed closely by Leticia Lucy with 410 marks, Whitney Waringa (408) and David Njoroge (407) still in the same school.
Joyce Maina, the headteacher at Fairfield Academy said the 2020 performance was better than 2019, despite the fact that pupils stayed at home for long periods because of Covid-19.
“Our top candidate has done better compared to the previous year. Despite the fact that schools were closed for long, we have done well and are grateful to God,” she said.
She said they had to carry on with online classes when the candidates were at home.
At Nyali Primary School, the top candidate was Shamsa Said with 413 marks.
In the heart of Allidina slum in Jomvu constituency, Solomon Chimera emerged top with 408 marks.
Eight candidates scored 400 marks and above.
Chimera, who wants to be a neurosurgeon in future, said he hopes to join Alliance Boys High School for his secondary education.
Some 100,712 candidates sat the 2020 KCPE exam at the Coast.
-Edited by SKanyara