St Peter’s Nyakemincha Secondary which previously hit the headlines for performing poorly in the National examinations has risen from the mess and now has every reason to smile after the school was represented in the recently concluded national competitions for science and engineering.
The School, which was represented by two students, competed in the food and technology category and was awarded as the most effective in the category countrywide in a festival held in Kaaga Girls School in Meru County last month.
Speaking to the press in his office, the school’s Principal, Joseph Arama welcomed the performance and said it was a good indicator that the school was headed for greater heights and the promising future of the students who has passed through his hands since he came to the school.
“Our school’s stunning performance nationally in co-curricular activities shows the bright future awaiting the school and the students who are going through here”, said Arama.
Arama also said that the school represented the county and the Nyanza region.
In academic, the school has recorded an improvement in national examinations since 2012 when Arama was transferred to the school in May the same year.
During that time the school had highest mean of 2.7 in the previous year’s K.C.S.E and he say this almost demoralized him.
“I have brought the school up from where it was flat on the ground, nobody could like to be associated with the school due to its poor performance, it had taken its name which literary means a ‘tail’ ”, says Akama jokingly.
The school is presently one of the best performing schools in the county and country and he says they want to prove their critics wrong that they are not of the ‘tail’.
Nyakemincha was ranked the fourth best performing school in Nyamira County in the last year’s KCSE with a mean of 8.62 with forty- one students acquiring direct entries to public universities out of 76 who had registered for the examination. The last grade was a C- (Minus).
Arama says that they are targeting a mean of 9.0 in this year’s K.C.S.E.