The fate of over 120 pupils of Nachukut Primary School in West Pokot County hangs in the balance after it received a notice not to open next term before they pay for the land.
The school which was started in 2011 sits on six acres of land and it has not managed to pay the owner a single cent.
This has prevented the school, which was registered by the Ministry of Education in 2016, from setting up permanent buildings.
The school has only one mud-walled structure hosting early childhood development education pupils while the rest study under trees.
Speaking to Daily Nation on Thursday, the chairman of the school’s board of management Isaac Ekale said they received the notice on Monday, asking them not to open the school in the third term before they pay the owner.
Ekale said they do not know how much money the owner will ask for since the price of land in the region has been appreciating every day.
He said many donors have visited the institution and were willing to set up classrooms but they fear doing so since the school does not fully own the land.
“This school started as an ECD centre in 2011 then it rose up to class six and it again dropped to class two due to lack of teachers,” he said.