Mandera and Garissa are the Counties with the worst (Teachers Service Commission teachers) to classroom ratio. They have 6 teachers for 10 classrooms.
A latest Uwezo Kenya Sixth Learning Assessment Report has revealed that Kirinyaga, Kiambu, Embu, Nakuru, Nairobi, Kisii and Baringo are Counties with the best (TSC teachers) to classroom ratio.
The report released Thursday also showed that there were 12 teachers for every school with 10 classrooms (streams) during the survey, with the ratio declining when only TSC teachers are accounted for. This means 'best' schools had 11 TSC teachers for every school with 10 classrooms.According to the report, 30 out of 100 Class 3 pupils can do Class 2 work, while 8 out of 100 pupils in Class 8 cannot.
In its sixth year of assessing children’s basic literacy and numeracy skills, Twaweza East Africa researcher and Programmes Officer Victor Rateng' said Uwezo continues to find that children are not learning as they should.
The findings, are from the sixth national learning assessment conducted between October and November 2015, which interviewed over 130,000 children, aged 6 to 16, from all the 47 counties in the country.
Data were collected from more than 4,500 schools and 69,000 households.
The report, Are Our Children Learning?, examines three interconnected challenges in education: learning outcomes and what drives them, teachers and access to pre-primary, and primary education.