For the second year in a row, Light Academy in Mombasa emerged the best school at the Coast in the KCPE exam with a mean score of 400 marks.
Last year, the school topped in the region with a mean score of 394 and in 2021, it had a mean score of 382, according to school director Yerkin Kalzhanor.
Eighteen candidates out of 33 who sat the KCPE examination at Light Academy Mombasa scored 400 marks and above.
The top candidate at Light Academy was 13-year-old girl Khadija Yunis, who scored an impressive 426 marks out of the possible 500.
She is also the third top student nationally and wants to join Sheikh Khalifa Secondary School, and thereafter pursue medicine.
Michael Warutere from Riara Springs Academy in Nairobi emerged top nationally with 428 marks, followed by Emmaculate Wacheke from Nakuru’s Gilgil Hills School with 427 marks.
At Light Academy, the other top students were Antonia Musyoki with 414 marks, Ahmed Nasser with 413, Alma Kamere 412, Lexine Wakesho 411, while Phanice Odanga and Michelle Njeri got 410 marks.
Light Academy Mombasa deputy principal primary school section Rehema Swaleh said they were happy with the results.
“Our highest mark is 426 and we have 18 learners who have scored above 400 marks. We are so happy that our mean has improved from 394 last year to 400,” Swaleh said.
At Nyali Primary School, the top student Shawn Jeremy Wachira, 14, scored 419 marks.
“I have never topped in my class before, and I want to thank God for helping me to be the best candidate at Nyali Primary with 419 marks,” Wachira said.
He said he wants to join Alliance High School and later be a successful businessman.
Tonny Ochieng, the principal of Nyali School said they had not received the results for all the students because of technical hitches that had been experienced during the day.
“I believe Nyali School is among the best in the region. I have tried to check around and our students are among the top 10 at the Coast,” he said.
The top student at Fairfield Academy in Mombasa was Larry Otaja with 412 marks, followed by Yusuf Ngala who had 409 marks.
The school had not completed compiling all the results by the time of going to press.
At Memon Academy, the top student was Fatma Ali, who scored 406 marks.
Fatma said, “I want to become a pilot. There are people who have tried to discourage me that piloting is for men, but I will become one to prove to them that women can do better.”
The second-best student at Memon Academy was Muneeb Amirhamza, who scored 405 marks.
He said Science and Kiswahili were his biggest nightmare, but he still hopes to pursue a course in medicine.
Mahir Yusuf, who was the third best at Memon Academy with a score of 403 marks, said he would like to join Mang'u High School.
School principal Joseph Ndoro said they are happy that six out of the 89 learners had scored 400 marks and above.
“Our overall mean score improved from 328.68 last year to 335 this year. We are very happy with these positive results,” he said.
Dorothy Kaibori, the head teacher at Busy Bee School, said this year’s results were not what they had expected because only two of out of 44 students had 400 marks and above.
“We have a mean of 367 this year, which is the same mark we had last year,” Kaibori said.
At Little Star Academy in Kiembeni, the top student was Gibson Mbui with 406 marks, followed by Trevor Willie Munene (404) and Husna Soban Salim (401).
Fred Ouma, a teacher at Little Star Academy, said the school’s mean score has improved from 320 marks last year to 325 this year.
Their 2023 class had 26 candidates.
