A total of 1,693 candidates who sat the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exams scored a straight A.
The number represented an increase from the 2023 KCSE when 1216 candidates scored a mean grade of A plain.
The results show that the number of A plain grades increased by 0.18 per cent.
Statistics from the Kenya National Examinations Council show that in the 2014 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.
This shows that there was an increase in the number of A grades by both boys and girls in the 2024 KCSE.
The 2024 KCSE results released on Thursday also show that National schools dominated the A plain grades.
Of the 1693 A plain grades, 1,375 came from national schools representing 81.22 per cent.
Extra County Schools produced 163 A grades representing 9.63 per cent of the total number of A grades.
County schools had four A plain grades while private schools had 142 A plain grades.
According to KNEC, there were 7,743 A minus grades of which 2,840 were girls and 4,903 boys.
This represented an increase of 0.8 per cent compared to the
2023 KCSE when 7254 candidates scored A minus.
During the 2024 KCSE examinations, a total of 962,512 candidates sat for the exams as compared to the 899,453 in 2023. 480,310 were male while 482,202 were female.
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba said all the candidates had been cleared to join various higher learning institutions to pursue careers of their choice.
"1,693 candidates obtained A's and 246, 391 got direct university entry qualifications of C+ and above,'' Ogamba said when he released the examination results at the KNEC headquarters.
The KCSE 2024 results will be accessed directly through results.knec.ac.ke.
Candidates will be required to enter their index number and any one of the names as per the registration data for the 2024 exam results