Acting Education CS Dr. Fred Matiangi. [Photo/kenyacurrent.com]
The first batch of form one students is expected to report to school today, Tuesday.
The last batch will be expected in school before February 12, 2018, failure to which they will automatically lose their slots.
The Ministry of Education says the distribution of textbooks to all secondary schools in readiness for their joining has been completed.
Acting Education CS Dr. Fred Matiangi says all pupils who scored over 400 marks have been given vacancies in National Schools, while 63 percent of Form One students will join County Schools.
But after the deadline of 12th January, several National Boarding Schools will start the process of selecting students who will join their day scholar wing.
Kenya High School, Starehe Boys Centre, Moi Forces Academy, Nairobi School, Lenana School, Pangani Girls High School and Moi Girls Secondary School in Nairobi are among the National Schools that have been marked for opening up day scholars’ wing.
Others are Ngara Girls Secondary School, Buruburu Girls High School, Embakasi Girls, Arya Parklands, Nembu Girls High School, Dagoretti High School, Lang’ata Secondary School, Upper Hill, St George’s Girls, State House Girls, Hospital Hill and Ofafa Jericho High School.
The move is aimed at boosting capacity and delinking admission to bed space under the free secondary education plan that is expected to increase Form One enrolment to above one million students.
However, Ofafa Jericho High School’s Principal maintains that the day school vacancy will still be limited to those who scored 350 marks in KCPE
All form one students reporting to any secondary school will be issued with six textbooks in core subjects of mathematics, English, Kiswahili, Chemistry, Physics, and Biology.
This is after the Government spent Sh7.5 billion on the new direct-school textbook supply programme.