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Moi Forces Academy (MFA) is a national public school for boys established in 1980 by the second president of the Republic of Kenya, Hon. Daniel T. arap Moi CGH. Initially, the academy was born out of a request by the Moi Air Base nursery school children that the former president builds them a school to avoid travelling long distances to access ...
The Kenya High School is a public girls' high school located on Mandera Road in the upmarket Kileleshwa Ward and suburb of Dagoretti North Sub-County in Kenya's capital city, Nairobi. [ 1 ] The school, which follows the national curriculum, is one of Kenya's 112 national schools and also one of the 18 prestigious Cluster III secondary schools ...
The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) is an academic certificate awarded to candidates upon completion of secondary education in Kenya. [ 1 ] The first KCSE exam was held in 1989 at the same time as the last Kenya Advanced Certificate of Education (KACE), which it replaced as the entrance requirement for Kenyan universities.
The school also hosts the Moi National Mathematics Contest, an exam prepared by Mang'u High School teachers that brings together students from every high school in Kenya. The contest started in 1996 with 19 schools and increased to 74 schools in 1999. The number of participating students also increased from 278 to 1,200 in the same period.
Later Railway School Nairobi, then Government Indian School, later The Duke of Gloucester School for boys, today Jamhuri High School in Ngara, Nairobi [35] Strathmore College (1961): later Strathmore College of Arts and Sciences, and then the parallel Strathmore School and Strathmore College School of Accountancy.
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.
In 1956, a double stream was then admitted. There were between 20 and 26 girls per class. In 1958, Loreto was categorized as a National School, a status it still holds today. In 1970, Loreto was given permission to start an "A level" art class, and in 1981 the school was given an "A level" science stream, with a science laboratory.