Form One selection 2019/2020

Updated: 02.12.2020

Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha on Monday (02.12.2019) officially announced the outcome of the 2019 Form One selection process.

The selection of 1,075,201 pupils out of the 1,083,456 candidates who sat this year’s KCPE exam took place in Naivasha, where a team from the Ministries of Education and ICT oversaw the process.

To check the secondary school where KCPE candidates have been placed, send the index number to 22263, which will cost you Ksh. 25 or log on to www.education.go.ke.

According to the announcements made by Prof. Magoha at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD), 33,000 pupils were selected to join national schools next year.

A total of 184,000 pupils are set to join extra-county schools, county schools will have 188,000 and the sub county schools, which are the majority, will accommodate 669,000 pupils.

The Education CS revealed that the biggest challenge in the selection process was where certain candidates only selected two slots of schools out of the possible 11, thus the placement officials had to decide where to place the learners.

Concerning the issue where a pupil is placed to a school he/she did not select, Prof. Magoha said very minimal cases should be expected.

“In over 95% of the cases, you will find that the child was admitted to the schools in which they applied for but the biggest problem is for those pupils who only chose to select two schools yet there are 11 slots. When you have already committed suicide yourself, we shall select for you,” he said.

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How to check the national schools, private, county, sub-county and extra county secondary school you have been admitted to via SMS and Online. Plus the reporting date, admission letters download, and printing.

How to Check Form One Intake 2019 via SMS

To check the secondary school where you or your child has been placed,  send an SMS with your Index Number to 20063 from any network. The charges of sending the SMS will be determined by the mobile company you will be using.

How to Check Form One Intake 2019 via Online

The Ministry of Education website has a guide for form 1 selection for all schools in Kenya. This includes:

• Secondary School Form One Selection 2020.
• How to check the school you have been admitted to.
• Form One intake 2020.
• List of admission into either National, County & Extra-County schools.

Form One Admission Letters 2020

The form one admission letters are posted on the Education ministry website. To download and print your copy follow the procedure below.

• Got to the Ministry of Education Website
• Select the county and sub-county where the candidate sat for KCPE Exam.
• Enter your KCPE index number.
• Click Submit.
• Click on the link named “admission letter” at the bottom of the page for a copy of your admission letter.
• Use the printer icon to print, or download icon to download to your computer.

After you download and print your Form 1 Admission Letter, present it, together with your passport size photos, and results slip, to the school where you sat for your KCPE Exam for endorsement. Thereafter present the endorsed documents to the secondary school where you are required to report.

Form One Selection 2019/2020 for National Schools

Click here to access Form One School Selection System for National Schools

Form One Selection 2019/2020 for Extra County Schools

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Form One Selection 2019/2020 for County Schools

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Form One Selection 2019/2020 for Sub County Schools

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Form One selection 2019/2010 News

Updated: 01.11.2019

Pupils who sat the 2019 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination will from Monday know the secondary schools they have been admitted to.

The first group will be those joining the 136 national schools and who scored 400 marks and above.

The selection started in Naivasha immediately after the release of the KCPE test results on November 18.

Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha will release the names of those selected to join national schools.

Form One selection: Regional Selection

Selection for extra-county and county schools starts on December 3 and ends on December 5.

“The ministry has developed watertight criteria to ensure the process is fair, objective, transparent and in keeping with meritocracy,” Prof Magoha said.

The regional selection will take place in 11 designated centers.

The 1,083,456 pupils who sat the exam are eyeing slots in about 10,000 secondary schools.

Of these, 543,582 or 50.17 percent are boys while 539,874 are girls.

There were 103 national schools last year.

About 30,000 students joined national schools in 2018.

There are 734 extra-county schools and 1,412 county ones.

There are 6,451 sub-county schools and 1,164 private institutions.

A majority of the students will join county and sub-county schools.

Form One Intake: Special Needs

There are 35 special-needs education secondary schools with a capacity for 1,500 students, according to the ministry.

These schools have been upgraded to national status.

The number of 2019 KCPE examination candidates who scored 400 marks and above dropped to 9,770, from 11,559 last year.

But those who scored 301 to 399 marks increased to 243,320 from 223,862.

This year, some 2,407 candidates with special needs sat the exam, with the top-scoring 414 marks out of a possible 500.

Form One Intake: Face of Kenya

The team that has been meeting in Naivasha had to ensure selection to national schools reflects the face of Kenya.

The top five candidates of either gender from every sub-county will be placed in national schools on the basis of the choices they made where possible.

The ministry has the responsibility of ensuring equity in placement to national schools by applying sub-county quotas based on candidate strength and affirmative action.

By design, affirmative action aims at guaranteeing the admission of minorities and marginalized groups to national schools.

In the North Rift, the selection will take place at Moi Girls High School, Eldoret and participating counties are Uasin Gishu, Elgeyo-Marakwet, Nandi, Turkana and West Pokot.

Form One Selection in the Coast

In the Coast, it will be at Coast Girls High school and will cover Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale, Tana River, Taita-Taveta and Lamu counties.

Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang will supervise the South Rift selection at Afraha High School. It will cover Kericho, Bomet, Nakuru, Narok, Baringo, Samburu and Laikipia counties.

Kisumu Polytechnic will host the team covering Kisumu, Siaya, Homa Bay, Kisii, Nyamira and Migori counties.

The team at Kakamega High School will cover Vihiga, Kakamega, Busia and Bungoma counties while selection for the Metropolitan region that covers Nairobi, Kiambu and Kajiado will be at Mang’u High School.

For the Central region covering Nyeri, Kirinyaga, Murang’a and Nyandarua counties, the selection will be at Nyeri Technical Institute.

For Machakos, Makueni and Kitui counties, the exercise will be at Machakos Boys High school.

The team at NEP Girls High School will cover Garissa, Wajir and Mandera counties, while selection for Meru, Embu, Tharaka-Nithi, Marsabit and Isiolo counties will be at Kaaga Girls School.

Form One Intake: 100 Percent Transition

Prof Magoha said the government is determined to address challenges facing the 100 percent transition.

To address congestion that has characterized schools, the government, and partners under the Secondary Education Quality Improvement Project will roll out an Sh8 billion scheme to put up classrooms and laboratories in 110 sub-counties next year.

“This will ease the pressure on facilities in our secondary schools,” the minister said.

In the past, principals have converted dining halls and unused buildings to classrooms to accommodate the huge number of learners.

A report by the Education ministry shows that there are 123,399 spaces in extra-county schools while 142,358 slots are available in county schools.

Sub-county schools have 700,000 available spaces.

Form One Intake: Elite Schools

The scramble for elite schools has been high in the past. The government says it is determined to address the problem.

Last year, for instance, the 15 schools that had a capacity of just 5,512 students received 1,002,516 applications.

The institutions that attracted a majority of the candidates were Alliance Boys, Mang’u, Lenana, Nairobi, Starehe Boys, Maseno, Kapsabet Boys and Maranda High.
Others were Alliance Girls, Kenya High, Pangani Girls, Limuru Girls, Moi Girls Eldoret, Mary Hill and Nakuru Girls.

The Sh6 billion upgrading of 85 schools to national status has not eased the admission pressure on the 18 original institutions, a recent audit shows.

In a report tabled in the National Assembly, Auditor-General Edward Ouko said a review of Form One admissions showed that the original national schools are still grappling with congestion, indicating that parents have given the upgraded institutions a wide berth.

Adapted from the Daily Nation

Form one selection Form One Intake Process

The Computerised selection follows the following steps:

1. Selection of Top 1 and 2, for both Gender (boys and girls) to their national school choices, if an allocation has been provided for their District. In absence, the computer assigns such performing candidates schools of equivalent stature to their choices;
2. Selection of Other National Schools Quota based on Candidates ratio from Public and Private;
3. The system gives advantage to Counties inclusive of host County in filling vacancies which may arise during the selection (such as the inability of certain Districts to produce candidates with more or equal to 280 marks);
4. Selection of Extra-County Schools which have the same features as National Schools with the variance being the number of candidates to be picked being more within the host Counties of the schools;
5. County Schools purely selects students within a County, all boarding schools fall under this category;
6. District Selection: still done manually due to challenges of mapping primary schools or communities to the proximity of secondary day schools.

Form One Selection 2019 News 

Starting 2019 the Education ministry has announced that candidates who have completed their KCPE exams will not be allowed to change their secondary schools form one selection choices.

For this reason, Education CS George Magoha has ordered the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) to open the online portal to allow the candidates to revise the choices for form 1 that they had made. This revision needs to be done before Aug 2, 2019, an ample time before the exams start in October.

Candidates are expected to select 11 schools – Four (4) national schools, Three (3) extra-county schools (one from each cluster), two (2) county schools, and two (2) sub-county schools.

Magoha, says they have agreed with the education stakeholders to ensure they accommodate the wishes of the candidates and their parents too due to numerous complaints in the past.

“We will no longer have a situation like we have been having in the past, where in one school you find that a top scorer is denied a chance to join their dream school, yet someone who scored less than them get placed to the schools they selected”

The Education Ministry realized that around second term of the academic year, the candidates usually have a full assessment and evaluation of themselves and can confidently foresee the secondary school they can qualify to enroll. This is from the class and exam assessments they do during the term.

Form One Selection – How to download form one admission letters online

To check which school your child has been admitted to, go to the ministry of education website: http://www.education.go.ke/ then follow the easy steps below:

1. Select the county and sub-county you sat KCPE then key in your index number and Submit.
2. Click on the link named “admission letter” at the bottom of the page for a copy of your admission letter.
3. Use the printer icon to print, or download icon to download to your computer.
4. Get your primary school’s headteacher to endorse the letter and stamp it in the space provided.
5. Finally, present it for admission together with a certified copy of your birth certificate