Excellent performance at school of refugees students in Kakuma

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Excellent performance at school of refugees students in Kakuma

UNHCR, 19 Jan 2015

URL: http://data.unhcr.org/SouthSudan/country.php?id=110
The 2014 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) results released by the Ministry of Education showed very encouraging performance by refugee candidates in Kakuma with schools registering above average mean score of 259 out of 500. Of the 1,467 candidates who sat the exam, 1300(340 female, 960 male) attained above 200 marks which is the required transition marks to secondary schools. This represents a high pass rate of 87.5% which is above the national average of 78%. The best candidate, a girl from Angelina Jolie program scored 418 marks out of 500 marks, a performance that is also the best in the whole of Turkana West Sub-county.