Bungoma High School has registered a remarkable academic turnaround after posting excellent examination results in the just released 2025 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) by Education CS Julius Ogamba, ending more than a decade of poor performance that had dimmed the institution’s reputation.
The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) reports that 992,226 students sat for the KCSE examination, where 1,932 scored an A plain.
It further revealed out of the 992,226 students, 501,214 were female while 492,019 male.
Speaking at AIC Chebisaas High school In Eldoret during the release of the 2025 KCSE examination on Friday, CS Ogamba appreciated the students for completing their form four course.
He further stated that 30,980 teachers were involved in marking the KCSE examination thanking them for the excellent work.
The impressive outcome has been attributed to renewed discipline, improved teaching strategies and focused leadership, rekindling hope among parents, teachers and education stakeholders in Bungoma County.
Speaking to the press at the school premises on Friday, January 9, Bungoma High school Senior Principal Wycliffe Wasike said that this year’s performance is a great improvement from last year’s group.
“For very long time as a school we had not scored an A (plain), to be precise from 2015 to date,” Wasike stated.
Further, in 2025, Wasike observed that the school got three straight A (plains), 10 A- (minuses).
“In the category of an A we have 13, and as a school we want to appreciate God, teachers, parents, ministry of Education and support staff for working very hard to ensure that we have good results,” Wasike stated.
He revealed that last year the school registered 643 candidates adding that in previous years the school has never registered such a huge number for KCSE.
“While we are still tabulating the results over 250 students have already secured a direct entry to University, we are very grateful,” he said.
In 2025, Education CS Julius Migos Ogamba says that 992,226 candidates sat for the KCSE compared to 962,512 in 2024, representing an increase of 30,714 candidates.
One of the students who performed well at Bungoma high school, Allan Baraka who scored an A (plain) thanked the school and his parents for the great support noting that he would like to pursue Medicine course at University of Nairobi (UON).
“We thank our Principal and his team for the support and all the programmes that is why we have these good results, we are telling the whole Kenya that Bungoma high is rising again, it’s a new rising and it will rise again,” Baraka said.
