According to a recent assessment, over 23% of Grade 6 pupils in Central are unable to comprehend an English story that is adequate for Grade 3.
In a similar vein, just 77.4% of Grade 4 pupils are able to complete a division problem suited for Grade 3, with students from metropolitan areas outperforming those from rural ones.
According to Usawa Agenda’s Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Assessment 2024 study, despite the large number of children enrolled in school, many are not receiving a high-quality education.
Data gathered in the counties of Murang’a, Kiambu, Nyeri, Kirinyaga, and Nyandarua during June and July of last year is included in the report.
Thomas Nyoro, the acting regional commissioner, introduced it in the county of Murang’a.
In order to reach 1,996 enumeration areas, Director Emmanuel Manyasa collaborated with 51 organizations and sent out 1,996 volunteers and 1,953 village elders.
39,298 kids between the ages of six and fifteen had their assessments conducted after about 38,634 homes were visited.
A total of 1,813 elementary schools, both public and private, were inspected and evaluated in terms of their infrastructure, staff, leadership, degree of empowerment, and 2022 KCPE performance.
A child with a disability living in an urban region has a fifteen-fold higher likelihood of never having attended school, per the research.
Only 18.4% of board of management chairpersons are women, according to the report, indicating that women are underrepresented in management roles in primary schools.
Compared to the national average of 90%, school enrolment is higher in urban areas (95.6%) and rural areas (94.5%).
The percentage of girls enrolled in schools is slightly higher than that of boys, at 95.3%, with the exception of Kirinyaga County, where the percentage of boys enrolled is 95% while that of girls is 93%.
The county with the highest enrollment, Kiambu, had 95.6% of boys and 96.2% of girls enrolled.
Nine percent of children enrolled in school nationwide did not attend, 4.6% never registered, and 4.4% dropped out.
With 6.1% of school-age children not attending, Nyeri County had the highest dropout rate, while Kirinyaga had the lowest dropout rate at 4.9%, which was slightly higher than the national average.
Additionally, Nyeri had the highest percentage of pre-school-age boys missing school—15.4 percent—while Kirinyaga had the highest percentage of girls missing school—15%.
Nyandarua county has the lowest rate of preschool-age children out of school (2.7%), and the highest percentage of pupils in primary schools not in school (6.4%).
In Murang’a, between the ages of four and fifteen, 9.1% of boys and 10.7% of girls did not attend school.
Kiambu recorded the largest percentage of pupils enrolled in private facilities at 60% compared to the national average of 40.5%. Approximately 53% of boys were enrolled in ECDE, compared to 46.6%.
