Bottom last KCSE secondary scraps school fees in efforts to attract form ones

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We all need motivation in life to get through so imagine being in a school that kills your dream so much that aside from you no one wants to be associated with it.

Not only are the students lonely in the compund but desperately they are predicting the sinking of their future as all odds stand against them.

It is the story of Mathare-ini Secondary School that has been grappling with low enrollment for years and has not had any Form One enrolment this year.

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Last year, the school had 67 students, 47 in Form Four, 14 in Form Three and seven in Form One while Form Two did not have any students.

However, the students failed to report back to school when first term opened. Their parents transferred them to the nearby Nguku, Marumi and Kariua secondary schools.

Parents were unhappy with the poor performance consistently posted by the school which was established in 1982.

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The school was the last in the county with a mean score of 1.92, with 21 out of the 26 KCSE candidates scoring D minus while the rest got “E”s.

This was a drop from the 2.29 points the school scored in 2017.

As a way of encouraging more students to enrol in the institution, the school board scrapped school fees and lowered its admission cut mark.

The fate of the school now hangs in the balance as its administration awaits students’ admission.

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