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Over half of KCSE candidates score above C- for first time in a decade
Students at Moi Girls' High School in Eldoret celebrate the school's exemplary performance in the 2025 KCSE examinations on January 9, 2026. About 98 percent of its candidates qualified for university entry, with 33 achieving an A grade.
The proportion of candidates who scored C- and above in the newly released Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination exceeded half of all tested candidates for the first time in a decade, reversing a long-standing trend of below-average performance under the 8-4-4 system.
Results released on Friday by Education Cabinet Secretary (CS) Julius Ogamba show that 507,131 candidates, or 51.1 percent of the 993,226 who sat the 2025 examination, attained a C- or better grade nationwide.
