Sub-county schools – the day schools – have a total capacity of 685,590 slots in all the 7,325 institutions. The 32 special schools have declared 1,453 available vacancies. The Kenya Private Schools Association (KPSA) said they will make available 87,000 slots across all the 1,800 private schools to accommodate more candidates.
Sources familiar with the Naivasha meeting said the team will draw exact capacities, which will inform accurate placement. An official, who asked not to be named because he does not speak for the ministry, said the team will also decide whether they will expand the national school bracket to 350 marks. For the last three years, all candidates who score 400 marks and above are placed in the coveted national schools. “The team will explore the cutoff point that will completely take up all the 29,000 slots in national schools,” said the official familiar with the details. Only 12,273 candidates scored 401 marks and above and are guaranteed slots in the coveted schools. This however leaves some 17,000 slots available in national schools. Candidates who scored 301-400 marks are 228,414.
Let the ministry of education select schools for kcpe 2018 students and not use last years 2017 data as it is online now. Already they have changed the actual names of students on the portal and replaced it with clients names leaving the marks, school the students has been selected constant. This means no selection take place.