2,300 Public Primary Schools To Host Junior Secondary School Starting January 2023

Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) will be hosted in 2,300 public primary schools starting January next year. This comes even as the government continues to engage in a last-minute rush to ensure that there are enough classrooms to host Grade seven students.

Education Secretary Prof. George Magoha, on Wednesday 13^th, stated that the primary schools chosen are those that are located on the same compound as secondary schools

“We have said as a government, when a high school and a primary school are within the same compound, we shall also use the physical resources that are there,” he said.

Magoha said across the country, 2,3000 provide an accessible number of 5,000 classrooms which will be used to host Junior Secondary schools. The CS was speaking at Pumwani Boys High School in Nairobi, where he oversaw the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) classrooms.

Prof Magoha has been moving from one county to another, commissioning the construction of classrooms in various schools. The CS said the government is also closely working with private schools to ensure that they will also accommodate some Junior secondary school students.

The government is expecting private schools to construct over 5,000 classrooms for JSS. Prof Magoha said the guidelines for placement of students from primary to junior secondary schools will be released in two weeks’ time.

“We shall tell you precisely what we are going to do with our children, but in general terms, for those parents who are so worried about their kids, like the ones in the private sector, there is no harm with those children staying there for an extra one year so that they start moving out in year nine,” he said.

On Tuesday, CS Magoha was also in Sironga Girls High School in Nyamira county, where he also laid the foundation of Phase two CBC classroom construction while on Monday, he was at Kereri Girls High School in Kisii county.