School Administrators decried challenges accessing online Kenya Certificate of Secondary School Examination (KCSE) results, hours after the results were released by Education Cabinet Secretary, Julius Migos Ogamba.
The school heads in Homa Bay, cited frustrations while accessing the 2024 KCSE results, citing long hours of waiting to download the same due to slow network.
Speaking to journalists, Akwakra Secondary School Principal, Charles Odede, said it was a big challenge downloading the results, due to network traffic congestion.
“It was a big challenge accessing the online KCSE results as the system was frustratingly sluggish. I appeal to the government, to seek alternative ways of accessing results instead of causing anxiety, especially among students and parents, as well as the school,” he said.
He noted that the network was very slow, yesterday, making the process of downloading results tiresome and long.
However, several schools in the County have shown exemplary performance in last year’s KCSE examination with Orero High School, topping them all with a mean score of 9.42.
Mbita High School, Agoro Sare High School, Asumbi Girls High School, Oriwo Boys High School, Ogande Girls High School, and Gendia High Schools, each had mean scores of 9.16, 9.175, 9.134, 9.10, 8.189 and 8.1 respectively.
St. Francis Nyangajo Girls recorded a mean grade of 8.5878.
Some of the schools, however, recorded a drop from 2023’s results while others have shown immense improvement with Homa Bay High School, having remarkably performed better with 8.0145 as compared to a mean grade of 7.1 in the year 2023.
Mbita High School had 18 of its candidates scoring straight A’s, and 84 A- (Minuses).
Geoffery Odhiambo, the Principal attributed this performance to team work and staff motivation.
“We have also modified strategies to address the desire to improve. The students are also subjected to serial motivation, where they are encouraged to love and appreciate their school as well as believing in their teachers,” he noted.
By Sitna Omar
