Grade 10 Senior School Selection in Kenya to Commence on May 20, 2025
Grade 9 students will start choosing their Senior Secondary Schools on May 20, as announced by the government.
This announcement was made on Thursday, April 24, by Education PS Julius Jwan during his address at the National Convention on Competency-Based Education at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC).
The PS stated that the initiation of the process is early to facilitate a smooth transition for students from Junior Secondary School to Senior Secondary School, which begins at Grade 10.
“We have developed guidelines to help our learners transition from Grade 9 to Grade 10. Starting May 20, we are going to have our learners commence their selections for senior schools,” he mentioned.
Bitok further emphasized that, in contrast to previous years, the government intends to utilize technology during the selection process.
Schools will be classified based on pathways, including Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Social Sciences (Humanities), Performing Arts, Music, and Athletics, as stated by the Deputy Director of Education at the Ministry of Education, Fred Odhiambo.
Learners will then need to select 12 schools during the selection process. Out of these 12 schools, nine are supposed to be boarding schools, and from those nine, three must be from the learner’s home county.
The remaining three school selections will inevitably be day schools situated within the learner’s home sub-county.
This was the latest significant announcement from the Ministry of Education, made just hours after CS Ogamba instructed that a form of mathematics be reinstated as a mandatory subject in senior secondary schools.
It is noteworthy that Mathematics, which was intended to be an optional subject in SSS, will now be required following the directive issued by Education CS Julius Ogamba.
According to the CS, with this new directive, students who opt for the STEM pathway will study pure mathematics, while the other two pathways will have a less complex version of mathematics.
“We will have the STEM pathways studying pure maths, and the other two pathways incorporating a form of maths, ensuring that we have maths present in all three pathways in senior school,” the CS clarified.
In contrast to the 8-4-4 curriculum, where mathematics was mandatory, the Ministry had directed that students in senior school would now have the choice to drop the subject based on their chosen pathway.