Thika West Sub-County director of education, John Ndundu, has called a meeting for all school heads whose schools performed below par in the area in last year's Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE).
Head teachers from schools that scored a mean score of less than 200 or registered a drop of more than 10 in their mean score in last year's KCPE are to assemble at Mang'u High School on January 20, 2016, for an analysis of the results.
Ndundu, who was speaking in Thika Primary School for the Blind on Tuesday, said that the move is meant to help analyse the weak areas of those schools and chat the way forward.
"The idea is to understand what could have made the schools perform that way. Also for those who registered a drop of more than 10, we want to know why so that we can help where possible. Head teachers should not see this as a summon," he said.
The director who was leading a meeting between head teachers and education officers noted that Thika West Sub-county performed exemplary well compared to many other sub-counties in the region.
"One positive thing to note is that this sub-county did not have any irregularities. Also, unlike the way many public schools registered a huge drop nationally due to the teachers strike, the public schools here registered an improvement of 1.18 to get to a mean score of 228.47 down from 227.29.
Ndundu added that private schools did well to register a mean score of 312.85. He noted that there was also an improvement of students who scored more than 400 marks from 88 in 2014 to 130 in 2015.