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Ministry of Education revised 2024 Term dates for all schools: KCSE, KILEA, KPSEA exam dates

November 24, 2024

2023 revised term dates for schools and Colleges

2024 TERM DATES FOR ALL LEARNERS

	Opening Dates	Closing Dates	Duration
Term 1	8th January 2024	5th April 2024	13 weeks
Halfterm Break	29th February 2024	3rd March, 2024	3 days
April Holiday	8th April 2024	26th April 2024	3 weeks
Term 2	29th April 2024	2nd August 2024	14 Weeks
Halfterm Break	20th June 2024	23rd June 2024	3 Days
August Holiday	5th August 2024	23rd August 2024	3 Weeks
Term 3	26th August 2024	25th October 2024	9 Weeks
KPSEA & KILEA	28th October 2024	31st October 2024	4 Days
KCSE Exams	4th November 2024	22nd November 2024	3 Weeks
December Holiday	28th October 2024	3rd January 2024	10 Weeks

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2024 revised school calendar (Revised 2024 term dates for primary and secondary schools)

The Ministry of Education has revised the term dates for the 2020 academic year. In a circular dated 12th February, 2020 , and written by the Principal Secretary, Dr. Belio R. Kipsang, term dates for Pre-Primary, Primary, secondary schools and Teacher Training Colleges have been altered. In the revised term dates, candidates will sit for their examinations earlier than had already programmed. Schools will now, also, close early in term three to pave way for execution of the national examinations.

“Following stakeholders’ consultation on the above subject (2020 term dates), it has been found necessary to revise the term dates for the calendar year 2020 for schools and colleges,” reads the Circular sent to all Regional Directors of Education.

Just like it was in 2019, there will be no half term break in third term of 2020.

NEW DATES

In the latest directive, the closing date for all primary schools in term three has been moved from October 30, 2020 to 23rd October, 2020. Also changed is the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, KCPE, examination period that has now been slated for October 26 to October 29, 2020.

For Secondary schools, the closing date in term three has been moved from October 30, 2020 to 23rd October, 2020. Just like the KCPE examination, the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination period has been altered to between November 2 and November 25, 2020.

College students have been added an extra one day holiday in term one as their closing date has been moved backwards to 09/04/2020 from the initial closing date of 10/04/2020.

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Here are the revised 2020 term dates for schools

Pre-Primary and Primary schools 2020 Term dates

Activity	Opening Date	Closing Date	No of Weeks
Term 1	6/1/2020	10/4/2020	14
Half Term	17/2/2020	21/2/2020	–
Term 2	4/5/2020	7/8/2020	14
Half Term	15/6/2020	19/6/2020	–
Term 3	31/8/2020	23/10/2020	9
KCPE Exam	26/10/2020	29/10/2020	1
Total Weeks	–	–	38

Secondary Schools revised 2020 Term Dates

Activity	Opening Date	Closing Date	No of Weeks
Term 1	6/1/2020	10/4/2020	14
Half Term	17/2/2020	21/2/2020	–
Term 2	4/5/2020	7/8/2020	14
Half Term	15/6/2020	19/6/2020	–
Term 3	31/8/2020	23/10/2020	10
KCSE Exam	02/11/2020	25/11/2020	3
Total Weeks	–	–	41