KCSE 2024: Why Murang'a High School excels year after year

The school had 50 As and 106 A minus in the 2024 KCSE

by ALICE WAITHERA

Central10 January 2025 - 20:00

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Principal Willie Kuria said the consistently good performance is not by sheer luck.
The school, he said, lays strategies and sets a target at the beginning of each year to guide both teachers and students.

Yet again, Murang'a High School has continued to shine in academics, emerging as one of the top institutions in the Central region.

In the 2024 KCSE exams, 50 candidates scored an A, while 106 scored an A minus. Candidates who scored B+ were 103, B (62), B minus (51), C+ (23), 9 Cs, and 6 C minus.

By the time of going to press, results for 32 candidates we're yet to be received.

The 404 candidates whose results we have received so far have a mean score of 9.7.

That is an improvement from the 9.1 we got last year," principal Willie Kuria said.

Kuria, who was celebrating the results together with his students and the school's fraternity, said the good performance the school has continued to post is not by sheer luck.

The school, he said, lays strategies each beginning of the year and sets a target. The target includes the preferred mean score that helps both teachers and students work towards achieving it.

Further, the school appoints a principal who is in charge of Form 4, helping handle all matters concerning the candidates.

"We ensure there is maximum discipline. Our boys are quite disciplined, and we are grateful for that," Kuria said.

"We are also very prayerful and work as a team. Teachers, students, the board, and parents all work together for the desired goal," he added.

Kuria said the school is proud to produce excellent candidates each year despite having a large population of learners.

The school has about 2,000 students, with each class having up to six streams.

The school hit a 10.59 mean score in 2013, followed by 10.73 in 2014 and 10.74, the highest ever, in 2015, with the lowest score being 8.47 in 2018.

"Since then, the school has been working towards living to the expectations of the status we have set," Kuria who is also the chairperson of the Kenya Secondary Schools Heads Association, said.