Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua has congratulated the best school nationally in 2018 KCPE.Mutua on Tuesday took to his Facebook page to congratulate Ikombe Day and Boarding Primary School in Yatta, Machakos County.

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The results were announced by the Education CS Amina Mohammed on Monday.

The school emerged top in the 2018 KCPE results with a mean score of 418.

"Congratulations to Machakos County’s Ikombe Primary for making us proud - best school nationally," Mutua posted.

94 candidates out of 95 attained over 400 marks with the last candidate scoring 399 marks.

The school is situated 800m from Ikombe market, along Katangi- Matuu road in Ikombe location, Ikombe ward, Yatta sub-county, Machakos county and has proved to the nation that "Stars Never Struggle to Shine, They Just Shine" as their school motto reads.

When the results were announced by the CS, Olive Wachira Mwea of Riara Primary School and Rawlings Odhiambo of Kakamega Hill School tied for top honours with 453 marks.

"The number of candidates scoring 400 marks and above rose to 12,273 from 9,846 last year, while some 228,414 candidates scored between 301 and 401 marks compared to 217,307 last year. The majority, 574,927 candidates posted between 201 and 300 marks against 529,897 last year,” Amina said.

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