List; Form One Placement (Selection) 2023
Sub County Schools Take the Lion’s Share of Form One Selection 2023
The form one selection results in 2023 indicate that the majority of the KCPE candidates have been placed in sub-county secondary schools.
Sub-county schools in Kenya have got the highest declared capacity. The latest Ministry of Education Guidelines on how the 2023 to form one selection and placements show that 6,297 sub-county secondary schools received form one learners.
List: Form One Selection 2023 per Category
- Pre-selected schools=7
- National schools=112
- Extra-county schools=776
- County=1, 301
- Sub-county=6,297
- Private Schools=1,301
- Public boarding secondary schools=1,803
- Private boarding secondary schools=479
- Public day secondary schools=5,029
- Private day secondary schools=432
- Mixed-day and boarding public secondary schools=2,245
- Mixed-day and boarding private secondary schools=390
Inmates, overage candidates, and those in refugee camps will not be placed in secondary schools.
Some national schools have already pre-selected their learners.
Pre-Selection for regular schools
Pre-selection will be conducted before the main selection. This will apply to seven schools namely: Starehe Boys; Starehe Girls; Moi Forces Academy Nairobi; Moi Forces Lanet, Utumishi Academy, Utumishi girls, and Moi Tea Girls. Starehe schools will select 100% of their capacities while the Forces schools will select 80%.
The remaining 20% in the Forced schools will be filled by the Ministry during the main selection. Moi Tea Girls will select 40 % while the remaining 60% will be filled in the main MOE selection.
Lists of pre-selected candidates submitted to the Ministry will be captured into the Computer System to avoid double selection.
All candidates selected under this category will be assigned “Pre-select” status.
Candidates to be considered for pre-selection will be expected to have chosen the schools for consideration.
The pre-select lists will be expected to have a national outlook.
Pre-Selection for Special Needs Schools
Candidates with hearing and visual impairments will be pre-selected for special or integrated secondary schools which cater to their respective disabilities.
Computation of Quotas and selection:
In order to ensure equity in form 1 selection, available places are shared out using a formula that computes quotas for each sub-county.
Computation of Quotas is applied based on sub-county candidature. In 2021 the capacity for each school will be computed on the basis of 48 (forty-eight) students per stream for national, extra county, and county schools while sub-county schools may accommodate 50 students.
Candidates with special education needs will be considered for selection to special or integrated secondary schools depending on their choice, merit, and disability/need.
Candidates with special needs who will have chosen regular schools will be given priority in the selection per category of choice.
National School selection.
The slots in national schools are shared among all sub-counties in the country with a candidature ratio of public to private of 50: 50.
The following formula is applied for the computation of sub-county quotas for the candidates to be admitted to a national school:
Sub-county Quota=Sub-county KCPE Candidature of a given gender/ National KCPE Candidature of given gender X Available Vacancies in the National School
When a Sub-county misses a slot due to low candidature, affirmative action will be applied.
The national schools’ selection process is as follows:
- The top five candidates of either gender in each sub-county will be considered for placement to national schools of their choice where possible.
- To reward merit, candidates who scored 400 marks and above will be placed in National schools of their choice where possible. Where a candidate fails to be selected into a national school, they will be considered for placement in the Extra County school of their choice.
- Candidates who score below 400 marks will be selected using quotas and cutoff marks to any of their national school choices by order of preference, where possible. The cut-off mark of 280 will be used to fill the remaining vacancies in National schools while adhering to 50: 50 shares for public and private schools.
Extra-County Schools selection.
Selection of candidates to extra-county schools will be based on the ratio of 15:35:50.
Where, 15% is reserved for the host sub-county, 35% for the host County, and 50% for other counties other than the host county.
In addition to its 15% allocation, the host sub-county also has a share in the 35% of the county allocation.
The ratio of public to private schools will be determined by the percentage of unplaced candidates in private and public schools in each sub-county.
Sub-county quota in the host county in an extra-county school is based on its candidature using the following formula:
Sub-county Quota = (Sub-county Candidature of a given gender)/(Total County Candidature of the same gender) X Available Vacancies in the extra-county schools
County Schools selection
Available places in county schools are shared out between sub-counties in the ratio of 20:80 where 20% of places are reserved for the host sub-county and 80% for the host county shared out equitably among all the sub-counties therein, the host sub-county inclusive.
Students are selected based on merit and choice.
Sub-County schools Selection
Selection of candidates for this category will be based on merit, choice, and commutable distances from parents/guardians’ homes.
Affirmative action for slum areas
In order to promote equity and enhance the allocation of proportionate slots for candidates from slum areas, the following interventions will be put in place;
- National schools: the top 1 boy and 1 girl will be selected to the national school of their choice from identified primary schools in the slums. This will be an additional share to the sub-county where the slums are located.
- Extra-county schools: In addition to the sub-county share, the top 3 boys and 3 girls will be selected to extra-county schools of their choice from the identified primary schools in the slums
SNE schools selection
Selection will be based on choice, merit, and type of need/disability. KCPE candidates with hearing and visual impairments will be pre-selected for the relevant schools.
Those with physical disabilities may be placed in regular, special, or integrated secondary schools.
Day Wings in Boarding Schools selection
The Ministry of Education is encouraging the opening of day wings in existing boarding schools for the following reasons: –
- Expanding capacities in the already established schools and maximizing the use of available resources;
- Decongesting the boarding facilities
- Delinking admission from bed capacity;
- Enhancing parental responsibility in the management of students’ discipline,
- Catering for learners with health challenges
- Demystifying the perception that boarders perform better than day scholars.
- Preparation to standardize all schools in a move to embrace exclusive day schooling in the country.
Parents will place requests in schools offering day schooling that are convenient for their children to commute. The learners admitted under this program will meet the cost of lunch like other day schools and be integrated seamlessly into the school routine.
Handling of form one joining instructions.
Joining instructions for all schools will be available online. The letters are not transferable; hence no endorsement will validate the change of addressee or student selected.