Schools that lack enrolment or infrastructure to host Junior Secondary School (JSS) will have the option of transferring the learners to neighbouring learning centres.
Guidelines for implementation of JSS that the Ministry of Education issued this month indicated that primary schools in high-density areas and urban informal settlements with an enrolment of fewer than 45 learners transitioning will act as feeders, sending students elsewhere.
The new guidelines say the schools that will domicile transferred learners should be within a radius of two kilometres
“In high-density areas and urban informal settlements primary schools with an enrolment of less than 45 learners in the transitioning class or those lacking the basic facilities to domicile a JSS will serve as feeder schools to other JSSs within a two-kilometre proximity,” the report reads.
“In geographically expansive, low density, and insecurity prone areas, as well as for learners with special needs and disability, the government through the MoE will implement affirmative action (as priority), regardless of the enrolments in transitioning class,” the report further reads.
The JSS opening date is January 30.
Grade Six Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) results were made available from January 17 and can be accessed through the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) website.
Schools have been barred from charging fees for junior secondary unless they have a boarding section, Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu said.
President William Ruto had ordered that a Sh15,000 capitation per learner be provided in line with his vote-hunt promise of a free primary and secondary education in the election that gave him the mantle of leading Kenya.
“Government will spend Sh9.6 billion for the learners in Junior Secondary School this calendar year,” he said.
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