A total of 1,693 candidates who sat the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exams scored a straight A.
The number increased from 2023 when 1,216 candidates scored a mean grade of A plain.
Statistics from the Kenya National Examinations Council show that in the 2024 KCSE, a total of 1,137 boys scored a straight A compared to 556 girls.
In the 2023 KCSE, 825 boys scored A plain compared to 391 girls.
The results released on Thursday also show that national schools dominated the A plain grades, with 1,375 students, representing 81.22 per cent.
Extra county schools produced 163 A grades, county schools had four, while private schools had 142.
