Form One selection for the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam candidates will be completed by December 2023.

These details have been provided by Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu.

“The Ministry is determined to place the 2023 KCPE candidates in secondary schools as soon as possible …The actual Form One selection exercise for all categories of schools will be concluded by December, 2023.” Says CS Machogu.

The placement to secondary school is computerised.

Many factors are considered during form one placement. Some of the include: learner’s individual performance, overall performance, their school choices and capacity of the schools.

The ministry also uses affirmative action to place learners in national schools, where all top five candidates of either gender from every sub-county are placed in top schools based on their choices.

Candidates select 11 schools before they sit the exam. They pick four national schools – one from each from four clusters.

For extra-county schools, the ministry uses a 15:35:50 ratio, with the host sub-county getting 15 per cent of the vacancies, the county gets 35 per cent while candidates from other regions get 50 per cent. Candidates select three extra-county schools.

All special needs institutions are categorised as national schools and so admit learners from all over the country.

Candidates also select two county and two sub-county schools.

There are 112 national schools, 776 extra-county, 1,301 county, 6,297 sub-county and 1,301 private secondary schools. There are 1,803 public boarding secondary schools and 479 private ones. This is against 5,029 public and 432 private day schools. Those that have both boarding and day wings are 390 (private) and 2,245 (public).

All the KCPE 2023 candidates qualify for admission to Form One in line with the government’s 100 per cent transition policy.

You can check your form one selection results here: Form One Selection Confirmation by SMS