Following the release of the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination (KCSE) results last week, a section of Kiambu Town residents now want the government to re-introduce school ranking in national examinations.
The residents said ranking will provide positive competition among schools and in the process boost performance.
Speaking to this writer at Kiambu Town on Monday, the locals said that ranking is a platform of measuring competition.
They stated that since the government banned ranking, there has been less competition among schools.
“School ranking was one way of ensuring positive competition among schools and candidates in national examinations. We would want to urge the government to consider re-introducing it,” said Sylvia Waithera, a Kiambu Town resident.
Ms Waithera said some schools that used to perform well are no longer performing well.
“There are schools that used to produce good results but since the ban of the ranking system by the government, they are nowhere to be seen,” said Christine Mwai.
Mwai who is a teacher at a local primary school in Kiambu said that school ranking used to pressure students to perform better.
While releasing the 2015 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations on Thursday last week, Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i said the government was deliberating on re-introducing school ranking.
He noted that consultations with stakeholders were ongoing adding that if school ranking is re-introduced, it will take a different approach.
In 2013, the government banned school ranking saying it was disadvantaging some schools that were not performing well.
A section of leaders and education experts have been calling for re-introduction of school ranking.