by Erick Nyayiera
At Kitambo Mixed Secondary school in Rarieda, boys are a worried lot as the performance of girls far much outshone boys in the 2020 KCSE exams.
The school had a total candidature of 152 students in the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams comprising of 82 boys and 70 girls.
Its student population is drawn from local public primary schools in the villages. Most of the learners in the day mixed secondary schools come from humble backgrounds and are not able to pay fees promptly.
The school registered a mean of 5.0197 which is an improvement from the 2019 KCSE results of 4.5440.
The school also managed to send 31 students directly to universities, the highest ever number to qualify in the school’s history. Of these 17 are girls while 14 are boys.
They had B (5), B- (11), C+ (15), C- (34), D+ (41), D (27) and D (1). The overall school mean grade for 2020 is C-.
Interestingly, in the results, girls outshone boys by a big margin as the gender mean for girls stood at 5.1714 while boys mean stood at 4.8537.
Principal Michael Omollo acknowledged the input of his zealous teachers who ,he said, have adopted the teamwork and are keenly addressing students’ individual academic needs.
“We have realized the performance of girls has suddenly risen, they have outshone boys in the exams.This therefore calls for an affirmative action to save the boy-child,” stated Omollo.
