East End Junior Academy has announced it will be closing its doors in December this year permanently.
The announcement came on Tuesday through a memo that was shared with parents and ended up doing rounds on social media.
The Star on Wednesday reached out to the school administration to confirm if the memo was real or falsified. We spoke to the school director Gachango Munyambu who confirmed that indeed the memo was true.
"They are not false claims. We really are closing permanently and the reason has been given in the memo," he said.
According to the memo, the school is closing due to the tough economic environment the country is in, making it difficult to run a business.
"As everyone knows the business environment in the country has not been all that good," the memo reads in part.
The memo noted that since the school was founded, its Directors who are Mr and Mrs Munyambu have devoted their time and resources in order to make it what it is today.
The memo added that the tough business environment is exerting a lot of pressure on the Directors and because of their age, they have opted to retire and close the school from next year.
"Mr and Mrs Munyambu are both over 70 years old and would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the support that you have given to the above school and to assure you that the office will remain open to give you any assistance that you might want," the memo said.
East End Junior School is located in Outer Ring Road, Nairobi. It was founded in 1993 and had its first cohort sit for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education in the year 2000.
One of the parents in the school took to X ( Twitter) to lament over the closure of the school.
The parent by the username Lord Chitechi had just received the memo.
"My kid's school has closed for good citing the harsh business environment in the country," Chitechi said.
He added that he loved the school because of its foundation in kids.
"Such huge playground with grass for kids to play well," he said.
Another username Kariz Rizkah said he used to live close to the school.
"When I used to reside in this neighborhood 10 years ago it was the best for early childhood education. We are not doing well as a country if such institutions can go down, sad to even think about it," Rizkah said.