Guidelines for Senior School

By Agnes Chepchumba



🇰🇪 Current Guidelines on Running Senior School in Kenya under CBE

The guidelines for the running of Senior School in Kenya are part of the ongoing implementation of the Competency-Based Education (CBE), which will see the first cohort transition to Grade 10 (Senior School) in January 2026 following the Kenya Junior School Education Assessment (KJSEA) in November 2025.

Here are the key aspects of the current guidelines and framework:

1. 🎓 Pathways and Curriculum

Three Career Pathways: Senior School (Grades 10, 11, and 12) is structured around three main pathways from which learners select:

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

Social Sciences

Arts and Sports Science

Subject Requirements: Learners will take a total of seven learning areas:

Four Core/Compulsory Subjects: English, Kiswahili/KSL, Mathematics (core or essential, depending on pathway), and Community Service Learning (CSL).

Three Elective Subjects: Selected from the chosen pathway and track.

School Categories: Schools are being designated as either Triple Pathway Schools (offering all three pathways) or Dual Pathway Schools (offering STEM and one other pathway).

Daily Schedule: The new layout requires learners to have eight lessons per day, each lasting 40 minutes, totaling 40 lessons per week.

2. 🏛️ Administration 

Scrapping of School Categories: The Ministry of Education has scrapped the old categorisation of secondary schools (National, Extra-County, County, Sub-County). All Senior Schools are now classified on the same level.

Re-registration: All existing secondary schools are being re-registered as Senior Schools.

3. 📝 Learner Placement and Selection

Assessment: Placement is based on a cumulative assessment, including:

KJSEA (Kenya Junior Senior Education Assessment) - which accounts for 60% of the final score.

School-Based Assessments (SBA) from Junior School (Grades 7 and 8) accounting for the remaining 40%.

School Selection: Learners use an automated digital platform to select a total of 12 Senior Schools based on their preferred career pathway, subject combinations, and accommodation (day/boarding).

Placement is guided by choice, merit, equity, psychometric test results, and school capacity.

Diversity Rule: A maximum of five students from the same Junior School are to be placed in the same Senior School to promote regional and gender diversity.

Gender Neutrality: The guidelines indicate that placement will be regardless of gender, which may lead to the phasing out of purely boys' or girls' schools in the long term.

These guidelines are focused on facilitating the transition to the new Senior School structure under the CBE framework.





Together we demystify CBE and enable smooth transition from Junior School to Senior School

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