The Ministry of Education has rejected over 66,000 appeals for Grade 10 senior school placement due to limited capacity in popular schools. This comes after the release of the 2025 Kenya Junior Secondary Education Assessment (KJSEA) results and subsequent placement exercise.

• 183,000 transfer and review requests were processed, with 116,000 approved and 66,000 declined.
• Basic Education Principal Secretary Julius Bitok stated that over 50,000 learners applied to fewer than 20 top-tier schools, each with an average capacity of about 500 students.
• A second revision exercise, running from January 6 to January 9, 2026, will allow affected learners to apply for alternative institutions, particularly targeting public C1 schools in remote areas with available capacity.