Form One's placement results are expected to be out today or tomorrow.
Education CS George Magoha said 1.2 million candidates will know their new schools.
By the first week of May, students will have started preparations for admission.This will give parents about a month to prepare.
Whilst at it, KCSE marking has entered the second week.
Inside sources confirmed to the Star that by the end of this week, marking of subjects that were administered during the first week might be done.
"Incase everything goes well by the end of this week we will have finished marking English, Maths and some Kiswahili papers," a source who sought anonymity said.
Magoha said the results of more than 800,000 candidates will be released before the end of this month.
Thereafter, the candidates will be expected to join university in June.
University Education and Research PS Simon Nabukwesi added that those who will be enrolled to colleges and vocational institutes will join in September.
This year's form one selection will use affirmative action which will ensure students are equally distributed in the country.
Magoha said students from Samburu, Kibera and Mlango Kubwa slums might be enrolled in schools with better conditions.
“I want a Samburu girl who wrote her exams in Mararal to join Kenya High in Nairobi and another one from Thika who has sat the exam at Kiandutu,” he said on Wednesday.
Magoha reassured students from vulnerable families on their possibility to join secondary school due to available scholarships.
For instance, the Elimu scholarship programme is set to benefit 9000 students.
“4,000 pupils will come from slums and others from every subcounty,” he said.
Teachers, centre managers and students found guilty of exam malpractice will face the law, Magoha warned.
The CS flagged the northeastern region as a cheating hotspot during the administration of KCSE exams.
According to investigations by Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Garissa, Mandera and Wajir emerged the top.
Continuing students in other classes are expected to report to school on the last week of April.
This beginning school year is the final session with the compressed covid-19 calendar.
School calendar will return to normalcy beginning next year.
(Edited by Francis Wadegu)