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This photo taken in 6 June 2014 shows the administration block at Nairobi School with the school motto emblazoned on it. Nairobi School was established in 1902 around the present day Nairobi Railways Club as a European school to serve the families of the I.B.E.A. Company and, a while later, the white settler community.
Railway Educational Centre (1906): established as a co-educational institution for both European and Indian workers of the Uganda Railway Authorities. Later Railway School Nairobi, then Government Indian School, later The Duke of Gloucester School for boys, today Jamhuri High School in Ngara, Nairobi [35]
The earliest account of Nairobi's / n aɪ ˈ r oʊ b ɪ / history dates back to 1899 when a railway depot was built in a brackish African swamp occupied by a pastoralist people, the Maasai, the sedentary Akamba people, as well as the agriculturalist Kikuyu people who were all displaced by the colonialists.
Nairobi is the capital city of the republic of Kenya. There are many schools in Nairobi both pirmary and secondary, public and private. The list below shows public primary schools in Nairobi [1]
Jamhuri High School, formerly known as Government Indian School and later The Duke of Gloucester School, is one of the oldest schools in Kenya It was founded as a Railway Educational Centre in 1906. Prior to Kenya's independence from the British, the school, located at Ngara Nairobi , predominantly enrolled students from the Indian community in ...
The 8-4-4 system allowed for an additional year in primary school to aide in enhancing their decision-making skills needed to make important lifestyle choices. The 8-4-4 system made primary school available and free in order to keep up with the demand and also give quality education that essentially was to help the economy.
It served Nairobi neighbourhoods of Ngara and Parklands. In 1962, male students were transferred out, making the school girls' only; boys who previously attended the school began attending Highway Secondary School in South B, Nairobi. The school opened to students of all races after 1964, when racial segregation in schooling ended.
The school is located approximately 22 kilometres (14 mi) from Nairobi's central business district, and a 10-minute walk from its sister school, the Alliance Girls' High School. Alliance High School was the highest ranked school in Kenya from 1960 to 1985, and has consistently scored near the top of the national league tables.