This archive report was first published on 18 November 2019.
On November 18, 2019, Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha released the 2019 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination results at the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) headquarters in Nairobi.
Magoha noted that girls had outperformed boys for the second year in a row, with a total of 1,083,456 candidates sitting for the 2019 KCPE examinations, out of which 543,000 were boys and 539,874 girls.
Two girls, Flavian Onyango (Chakol Girls) and June Cheptoo Koech (Sangalo Central), were among the top performers, scoring 439 marks to come in second place, a position they shared with Sean Michael Ndung'u (Kitengela International School).
Andy Michael Munyiri emerged the top performer with 440 marks, ensuring the top four spoils were evenly shared out between both genders.
Magoha also highlighted that 18 counties registered more female candidates compared to male candidates, and female candidates performed better than their male counterparts in English, Kiswahili, and Kenya Sign Language but lost out to them in Maths, Science, and Social Studies.
Magoha attributed the drop in teenage pregnancies in the country to parents spending more time with their children.
