Alliance
High School
In the early days of the colonial era in Kenya, the colonialists believed that Africans should not be allowed an education beyond the basic level as they would not benefit from any higher education. The rationale was that Africans were only useful as a source of cheap labour. Missionaries who had been arriving in the country from the beginning of the 20th century strongly opposed this idea.
During the 1920s, Jomo Kenyatta, who was in England at the time, urged Kikuyu parents to send their children to "Mission" schools. He made the point in several editions of the Kikuyu newspaper "Mwigithania" which he edited. He had clearly understood the value of a good modern education. His stay in England convinced him of that. He told anyone who would listen: "We will need well-educated people for when we get Uhuru." When Uhuru did come, plane loads of Kenyas went mainly to the US colleges but also to the UK.
I reckon the greatest gift that British colonialism gave to Kenya was just that: a good British education, especially the Anglicans and the Catholics.
The missionaries had been trying to set up primary schools to provide
basic education to Africans, but they faced challenges due to a lack of
funding. Dr. John Arthur, who was in charge of the Kikuyu mission arranged for
a conference with other Protestant missions to address these problems. The
first meeting took place in 1913 in Kikuyu. Later in the year 1918, the
Alliance of Protestant Missions was formed comprising the Church of Scotland
Mission, the Church of the Province of Kenya, the African Inland Mission, the
Friends Church (Quakers) and the Methodist Church.
Dr Arthur pushed the British government to open education to Kenyans and all Africans in all colonies. He believed that Kenyans should be given access to primary, secondary and tertiary level education as a matter of right. His efforts bore fruit when the Devonshire White Paper was written in 1923. This meant that Africans were also entitled to quality education. Dr Arthur realised the need to have new institutions set up. He worked tirelessly, without the government's backing to establish a high school for Africans in Kikuyu. The school was finally established on 1 March 1926 under the auspices of the Alliance of Protestant Missions. Thus, the Alliance High School was born.
Edward
Carey Francis OBE, (13 September 1897 – 27 July 1966) was a
British mathematician and
Anglican missionary to Kenya,
where he became "arguably the most influential educationist in Kenya's
modern history".
He was born in Hampstead, London. He was educated first at William Ellis School, becoming head boy of the school and captain of the cricket, football, tennis and athletics teams. After school he enlisted in the British Army, serving in the First World War with the Royal Field Artillery and being mentioned in despatches. On completion of the war, he took up a scholarship to read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge.
After graduating, in 1922 he became
a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge and Director of Studies in
Mathematics. He left Cambridge in 1928 when he joined the Church Missionary Society. He was posted to Kenya and
became firstly a teacher and later Headmaster of Maseno School in Nyanza between 1928
and 1940. He shortly served as a Mathematics teacher at Duke of York School (Lenana School). He then
served as Headmaster at Alliance High School between 1940 and 1962. During his
time at Alliance, he developed a mythical-like reputation as an inspiring
teacher, educating many future politicians. In later years, between 1962 and
1966 he was Assistant Master at Pumwani High School.[4] In Jomo
Kenyatta's first cabinet, nine out of the fifteen members had studied under
Francis at Alliance.
Francis died in Nairobi on 27 July
1966 and was buried within the grounds of Alliance High School. On his
death, a silence was held in Parliament, an honour usually reserved for Heads
of State. (Wikipedia)
St
Mary’s School
Also known
as Saints, St Mary’s School is a prestigious private primary and secondary
academy in Nairobi. The school, sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church
was founded in 1939. Other than the Kenyan primary and secondary educational
curriculum, this school also offers the International General Certificate of
Secondary Education (IGCSE), International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
(IBDP) certification and International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme.
Despite being a boys learning institution, female students are only allowed to
enrol for the IB Diploma Programme.
The school, which initially started with temporary structures, sits on 85 acres that belong to St Austin’s Mission in Muthangari. The current school structures, including the twin towers which stand at the school’s quadrangle, were completed in 1954. The current staffroom, which is located between the twin towers, used to be the school’s library.
In its
early days, St Mary’s School was the preferred learning institution for
children of influential Kenyans, among them the first President Jomo Kenyatta,
and his two successors, Daniel Moi and Mwai Kibaki.
St Mary’s
School has endeavoured to develop individuals who are all-rounded and confident
by focusing on academic, spiritual and physical aspects. The school has also
strived to promote high-level discipline, self-expression and God-centred
living.
Students
who pass through this institution are trained to be principled, effective
communicators, caring and innovative. This explains why the school administrators
have nurtured strong clubs and associations including math club, rugby,
Christian Union, charity club, drama and violin, among others, to nurture
student’s talents.
This
school’s administration makes sure that Parents Day is a memorable event for
students and parents. For instance, matches between parents and students during
Parents’ day are a common phenomenon. Some students recall an occasion when a
parent got seriously injured and was rushed to the school’s health facility
after playing with an under-13 team. Instead of showing empathy, this became a
laughing matter for many students who were unable to figure out how a youngster
could injure an adult.
Recognise anyone in this Standard photo?
“Its notable alumni include the country’s foremost political,
business and healthcare leaders.
They include President Uhuru Kenyatta, his brother Muhoho Kenyatta,
Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo, the late Fidel Odinga,
Veteran journalist Jeff Koinange, who was Uhuru’s classmate, Hollywood actress
Lupita Nyong’o, rally driver Ian Duncan, Baringo Senator Gideon Moi, popular
musician Eric Wainaina, Businessman and politician Jimi Wanjigi, former
anti-graft czar John Githongo and Owiso Odera, a former TV actor.
At one time during an alumni function, President Kenyatta, donning
a blazer complete with the school logo and tie, joked about how the school dean
who doubled up as the discipline master would always give him three
strokes of the cane whenever he breached school rules.
Others who wore white shirts, black trousers, grey pullovers and
stripped ties include Tony Munene, a Thika businessman, Jimmy
Kibaki, Mohammed Sheikh, a former Kenyan international cricketer and Dele
Young, a Kenyan international tennis player.”
Kenya
High School
The
Kenya High School had its beginnings in 1910 when a co-educational school
called the Nairobi European School began in buildings designed for police
Barracks. In 1931 the boys were separated from the girls. In 1935, the school
was renamed The European Girls Secondary School and had its first Headmistress,
Miss Kerby appointed. The buildings consisted partly of temporary wooden huts
located on the compound of the present Nairobi Primary school, with whom the
secondary school shared the present buildings. Staff housing was scattered in
the vicinity of Protectorate Hill. In 1939, the school was renamed The Kenya
High School.
In
1942, Miss Stott succeeded Miss Kerby. By this time, because of the existing
overcrowding and lack of modern facilities, there was considerable demand for a
new school.
By
1944, the present site of about 100 acres on Kileleshwa Hill had been approved
and sterling pound 150 had been voted in the 1945 budget as a token sum towards
the laying out of the grounds. Eventually, the total cost of building and
laying out the grounds reached sterling pounds 700,000.
The
present school began to take shape and in 1950, 100 boarders moved into two
boarding blocks of the partially completed new school. The site at that time
looked very different from today. The trees and flowering shrubs, which do so
much to enhance and beautify the grounds, remained to be planted; the chapel,
the library, and the swimming pool were yet to be built.
The swimming pool was completed in December 1952, with the aid of a government
loan. This loan was finally paid off at the end of 1967. The Chapel was
dedicated in 1959 and the library opened in 1963. In 1963, Miss Stott retired
and Miss Leeves took over.
Just prior to miss Stott’s retirement, the first African and Asian girls were
admitted. The first African girl to be admitted in 1961 was Ann Mithamo During
the four years of Miss Leevers’ headship, the inter-racial pattern of the
school began to take shape. Before Miss Leevers left, she handed over to Miss
Barnes. In 1967 plans had been made for the building of the Art Studio. Later
in 1967, it was decided to extend the plan of the Art room to include a Music
room and Music practice room. This block was completed early in 1969 when the
Hon. D. T. Arap Moi officially opened on sports day. The school is still
without an assembly which had to be omitted from an earlier building plan owing
to lack of funds.
In 1974 the school was taken over by the government and it began to take more
African pupils and teachers. The first African Headmistress was Mrs R. Kariuki.
She took over from Miss Barnes in January 1977 and left in July of the same
year after handing over the school to Mrs M. W. Wanjohi on 22nd July 1977 to
August 1999. After Mrs Wanjohi’s retirement in September 1999, Mrs Rosemary
Saina took over from September 1999 to July 2015, She Handed over to the Deputy
Mrs Lucy Mugendi who stayed up to December 31st 2015 and later handed over to
Mrs Flora Mulatya who also handed over Chief Principal MS. Virginia Wahome.
There was a school committee as early as 1932, whose members dedicated
themselves to the well-being of the school, in 1960, these duties were
transferred to the board of governors. The school has had very able Heads of
the board of governors e.g. Sir Phillip Mitchell (1960-1963), and Mr J. G.
Francis(1963-1965) and it is particularly indebted to Mr Charles Njonjo who
served the school for 10 years (1966-1976), Mr Geoffrey Kariithi
(1977-1988), Dr Eddah Gachukia (1984-1988) became the first lady chairperson of
the board, Ms Margaret W. Kenyatta (1989-1996), Mrs Damaris Ayodo who served in
the board from 1975 became chairperson (1996-1999), Mrs Rebecca Masese took
over from 1999 to 2015 When Mr Philip Njuki took over to date.
History cannot forget many dedicated people who played a very significant role
in the running of the school such as Mr. Mortimer who donated the former main
gate. There are several tables and chairs in the library donated by individual
parents. In her will, Molly Nesbitt left part of her money as a bursary to the
best French students annually.
Apart from these individuals, the government gave all the monies for capital
development. In the early 1980s, cost-sharing between the parents and the
government was affected. The present Parents Teachers Association was started
on 12th July 1979. The idea was proposed by Professor J.M. Mungai who became
the first chairman. The following people acted as the caretakers in the
executive committee until the Annual General Meeting was held. Professor Joseph
M. Mungai, Ven. John Kago, Professor F. A. Mutere, Professor V. K. Gupta, Mrs
M. Mpaayei, Mr B.O. Okudo, Mrs Grace Ogot, Mr C. A. De Ameida, Mr
Davidson Ngini, and M. L. Handa, Deputy Registrar General.
Prince of Wales, Nairobi School
On 24 September 1929 the foundation stone was laid by Sir Edward Grigg, Governor of Kenya colony, for a school with a capacity of 80 boys. Under the stone was preserved a copy of the newspaper of the day. The School opened in 1931, not only for the 80 boys it was designed, but with 84 boarders and 20-day boys. The headmaster felt the old name 'Kabete Boys Secondary School' was too clumsy and it was given the name 'Prince of Wales School', with the Prince of Wales feathers inserted between the horns of a Royal Impala as the School badge, accompanied by the school motto "TO THE UTTERMOST".
Enrolment proved higher than initially anticipated, requiring new classrooms. Due to a general shortage of cement, the first wooden classrooms were erected around 1938. The School population increased further because of the Second World War and the Kenya Governor authorised the building of corrugated iron dormitories (the group of buildings that later became Intermediate/Fletcher House – the current Music Room). It was called 'Lacey's Landies'. The effects of the war were felt more when the Italians joined in June 1940, including the fear of bombing, and it was made a day school. In June 1940, a military hospital took over the buildings and the students were moved back to the European Nairobi School (the present Nairobi Primary School.)
During the Christmas break of 1941, the whole school came back to Kabete, and the space at the European Nairobi School was taken over by the Girls' Secondary School. In 1942, European education was made compulsory and enrolment increased so much that new temporary classrooms were needed. The wooden classrooms were erected as a "temporary wartime measure." Clive, Grigg, Hawke and Rhodes Houses (the only four houses at the time) were all accommodated in the permanent building adjacent to the tuition block. Today those are two houses, known as Marsabit and Elgon. The period 1943 to 1944 saw the Rhodes/Nicholson complex being built, which is the Serengeti and Athi Houses complex today. A Sanatorium and School Hall were constructed in 1945. A sister school, the Duke of York school (today, Lenana School) was founded in 1948.
This is a view of the Administration Block from the back. The open space is the School's Quadrangle. Today the school, named after Kenya's capital, is one of the leading National Schools in the country. Nairobi School sits on over 80 ha (200 acres) of land about 11 kilometres from the city centre and has over 1100 students currently enrolled. The current Chief Principal is Mr. Caspal Momanyi Maina. He came from Kisii School still a principal of the institution.
Nairobi School Cadets-Kenya Regiment
Nairobi School had a cadet training course of paramilitary standard in which students could enrol. The cadet course was started in the colonial era when Mau Mau activity was at its peak. After the colonial era Kenya Regiment, the school continued with the cadet course until stopped by the government after the unsuccessful 1982 coup d'état. The cadet section had uniforms, guns, ammunition, an armoury, a parade ground with adjacent stores and offices and a shooting range.
Kenya Regiment cadets took part in march-pasts during National Days. They also used to be assigned sentry duty at the main gate and around the school at night. Successful cadets who passed out would be issued rank. The cadets, after completion of their form 6 education, could further their careers by joining the armed forces as officer cadets.
I will add a piece on Maseno College and Strathmore College and others as soon as I can dig up the material! Any other major school worthy of mention?
FROM WIKIPEDIA
Historical records, not only
from the travels of Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann, reveal that Swahilis had
access to education as far back as 1728 with a Swahili manuscript Utendi wa Tambuka (Book of Heraclius)
attesting to the fact. The CMS missionaries interacted with locals in the
coastal town of Mombasa and set up
one of the earliest mission schools in the country at Rabai in
1846.
With the expansion of the
railway from Mombasa to Uganda, the missionaries
expanded their work into Kenya's interior. An attempt to set up a school and
mission at Yatta in 1894 was resisted by the Kamba tribe. The missionaries then
penetrated into western Kenya and set up schools and missions. The first school
in western Kenya was established at Kaimosi in 1903.
During the colonial era, the
number of Kenyans with exposure to education steadily increased and a good
number of them were privileged to proceed abroad for further education. Among
those who furthered their education abroad in the colonial era were Jomo Kenyatta, who attended Woodbrooke College and London School of
Economics, Charles Njonjo, who attended Gray's Inn Law School, Peter Mbiyu Koinange,
who attended Columbia University, Mwai Kibaki who attended London School of
Economics, R. Mugo Gatheru who
attended Roosevelt University, Tom Mboya, who attended Ruskin College,
Oxford, Masinde Muliro,
who attended University of Cape
Town, Julius Gikonyo Kiano who attended Stanford University,
and Barack Obama Sr.,
who attended the University of
Hawaii at Manoa. Between 1959 and 1963, eight hundred Kenyan
students attended US and Canadian universities.[2]
Julius Gikonyo Kiano was the
first Kenyan to obtain a PhD. The trend steadily rose over the years and by the
time of independence in 1963, 840,000 African children were attending
elementary school.
Alliance Girls High School
Founded in 1948 by the Alliance of Protestant Missions, Alliance Girls’ High School was the first institution of higher secondary education for African girls in Kenya, and served in parallel with Kenya High School which at that time only admitted European girls. Before Kenyan independence it was called African Girls High School. Alliance Girls High School sits on 71 acres of land in Kiambu West district, Central Province, originally donated by the Presbyterian Church of East Africa.
In 1961, Alliance Girls High School was one of the first five schools in Africa to offer the Higher School Certificate (at the time, the equivalent of A Levels and a requirement for university entrance). Prior to the establishment of Alliance Girls High School, a few girls had been admitted to the predominantly male Alliance High School.
Pre-Independence
Schools in Kenya
History
form 1
Institutionalised education in
Kenya had begun way before the country became independent in 1963, with at
least sixty schools having been established by various groups and for various
communities.
Schools for
Ethnic Africans[edit]
Majority of the education
institutions formed for ethnic Africans in the East Africa Protectorate were started
by Christian missionaries.
Their stated purpose was to “civilise and convert the African”. They also set
up teacher training college-type institutions whose graduates went back to
their villages as “evangelists” to “break
the yoke of primitivity and usher in civilisation”.[3] Some schools were started
through local community initiatives.
1.
Rabai Mission School near Mombasa (1847):
established by missionaries Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann from the Anglican Church Mission
Society
2.
United Methodist School (1862): (later in 1963 the co-educational Ribe
Secondary School, in 1989 Ribe Boys and Ribe Girls High Schools), established
at Ribe, Kilifi County
3.
The Mary Leakey Girls' High School (1901): established at Kabete as a co-educational mission school
by Rev. A. W. McGregor of the Church Mission
Society (CMS), and later named after the founder of the girls'
section, Mary Bazett Leakey[4]
4.
Friends Africa Industrial Mission (1903): (later Kaimosi Friends
Elementary School in 1904, now Kaimosi
Friends Primary School), established in Kaimosi, Nandi County by American Quaker missionaries
5.
Maseno School (1906):
established in Maseno by the
Missionaries of the Church Missionary
Society (CMS) for the children of local ethnic chiefs,
currently sponsored by the Anglican Church of
Kenya (ACK) and overseen by the Diocese of Maseno South
6.
Nyeri High School (1907):
established in Nyeri as a primary school along with the
neighbouring St. Paul Seminary and the Mathari Mission Hospital by the Consolata Missionary
Sisters
7.
Tumutumu Mission School (1908): (now Tumutumu Girls' High School and
Kagumo Teachers College) established as a co-ed primary school in Nyeri County by the Church of Scotland
Mission
8.
Kabare School (1911): (from 1964 Kabare Girls High School), established
by the Church Mission
Society in Gichugu, Kirinyaga County, after area coffee farmers
agreed to each contribute two cents per half kilogramme of cherry thereby
raising over KES 80,000.[5]
9.
Mutige School (1911): (later Mutige Boys School), established by
the Church Mission
Society in Gichugu, Kirinyaga County, after area coffee farmers
agreed to each contribute two cents per half kilogramme of cherry thereby
raising over KES 80,000.[5]
10.
Government African School Machakos (1915): formed as a boys' primary
school, from 1946 a co-educational primary school. In 1950 the boys' section
relocated to become Machakos School;
the girls section was renamed Government African Girls’ Intermediate School,
which gave rise to today's Machakos Girls' High School[6]
11.
Butere Girls High
School (1916): founded as a primary school in Butere, Kakamega County by the Irish
missionary Jane
Elizabeth Chadwick (Church Mission
Society, CMS)
12.
Kabaa High School (1923): established by the Catholic Church in Machakos County
13.
Harambee Waa School (1923): (later Waa Boys High School), established
in Kwale County by
missionaries of the Holy Ghost
Catholic Fathers[7]
14.
Central Training School for Catechists (1925): (later Catholic Central
School and Kabaa School, now Mang'u High School),
established in Thika by Dutch priest Michael Joseph
Witte (from the Holy Ghost
Fathers)
15.
Government African School Kapsabet (1925): established in Nandi County by the Africa Inland Mission;
today Kapsabet High School and Kapsabet Girls' High School (from 1951)
16.
Jeanes School Kabete (1925): (later Public Service Management and
Development Institute plus Kenya Medical Training College in 1961, Kenya
Institute of Administration in 1963, and in 2012 Kenya School of
Government), established in Kabete[8]
17.
Jeanes School Maseno: later Maseno Training Centre (1961), Maseno
Government Training Institute (1967), in 1990 merged with Siriba Teachers'
College to form Maseno University College, today Maseno University (since 2001)
18.
Alliance School (1926): now Alliance High
School, established as a junior secondary school by the Alliance of
Protestant Missions
19.
Francis Scott High School (1927): (later in 1963 Nakuru High School plus
Nakuru Girls Secondary School in 1961)
20.
St. Mary's School
Yala (1927): founded by the Roman Catholic Mill Hill
Missionaries
21.
Kisii School (1932): established Kisii, Kenya
22.
Government African School Kakamega (1932): (later Kakamega High School,
now Kakamega School)
23.
Kagumo High School (1933)
established as a primary school in Kiganjo (Nyeri County)
24.
MaryHill Girls' High School (1933): established in Thika
town, Kiambu County by
the Catholic Missionary
Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (White Sisters)[9]
25.
Buxton School (1935): (later Ronald Ngala Primary School), established
by the Church Mission
Society in Mombasa
26.
Our Lady Consolata Mugoiri Girls High School (1938): in Mugoiri, Murang'a County (formerly Gaiteiguru
Intermediary School)[10]
27.
Kangaru schools (1947):
in Embu County, established as a Church Mission
Society primary school, later Government African Teacher
Training Center and Secondary School (G.A.T.T.C. & S.S) in 1952, and
African Girls Intermediate School (GAGI) in 1953. Embu Girls High School was
fused into the school in July 1973, separating again in 1989
28.
African Girls High School (1948): (now Alliance Girls
High School) established in Kikuyu town, Kiambu County by the Alliance of
Protestant Missions.
29.
Gitoro Technical (1956): later Meru Technical School (1964), Meru
Technical Vocational Training School (1969), Meru Technical Secondary School
(1973), Meru Technical Training Institute (1986), Meru National Polytechnic (2016). Originally
established in Meru town by
the local town council to
train youth in various practical skills[11]
30.
Xaverian Primary
School (1956): established in Kisumu County
31.
Kahuhia Girls' High School (1957): established in Kahuhia, Murang'a County through an initiative by
the local community and Christian missionaries[12]
32.
Starehe
Boys' Centre and School (November 1959): established by Dr. Geoffrey
William Griffin, Geoffrey Gatama Geturo and Joseph Kamiru Gikubu in Starehe, Nairobi
33.
Cardinal Otunga High School Mosocho (1960): established in Kisii County following a request from the
then Kisii Diocese Bishop, His Eminence Maurice
Otunga[13]
34.
Bishop
Gatimu Ngandu Girls High School (1960): established by The Right Reverend Caesar Gatimu in Karatina, Nyeri County
35.
Baricho High School (1960): established in Ndia, Kirinyaga County by The Right Reverend Caesar Gatimu[14]
36.
Chebokokwa School (1961): (now St.
Patrick's High School Iten), established by the Patrician Brothers in Iten, Elgeyo-Marakwet
County, and currently operated by the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Eldoret
37.
Kianyaga High School (1961):
boys' school established in Gichugu, Kirinyaga County through fundraisers by
local elders.[15]
Schools for
Muslims and Ethnic Arabs[edit]
The Colonial government was the
original provider of institutionalised education for Indian children, whose
families originally arrived in the East Africa Protectorate from British
India as labourers and indentured servants working
on the Uganda Railway.
Later, various religious communities mobilised to establish schools to serve
their members.
1.
Arab Boys' Primary School Mombasa (1920s): established in Mombasa
2.
Shimo La Tewa School (1932): (later Coast African Secondary School, then
Shimo-La-Tewa High School), established in Shanzu, Mombasa City as secondary school for Arab
boys who has successfully completed their primary education at the Arab Boys'
Primary School Mombasa[16]
3.
Mombasa Institute of Muslim Education - MIOME (1948): (later in 1966
Mombasa Technical Institute - MTI, from 2007 Mombasa Polytechnic University
College - MPUC, from 2013 Technical
University of Mombasa), established in Mombasa to provide technical education to
Muslim students of East Africa[17]
Schools for
Ethnic Indians[edit]
The Colonial government was the
original provider of institutionalised education for Indian children, whose
families originally arrived in the East Africa Protectorate from British
India as labourers and indentured servants working
on the Uganda Railway.
Later, various religious communities mobilised to establish schools to serve
their members.
1.
Railway Educational Centre (1906): co-educational institution. Later
Railway School Nairobi, then Government Indian School, then The Duke of
Gloucester School for boys, today Jamhuri High School in Ngara, Nairobi[18]
2.
Indian School (1912): in Mombasa County, from which emerged Allidina Visram High School (in 1923,
named after Allidina Visram)
as a rehousing and secondary extension of the Indian School
3.
The Aga Khan Primary School, Mombasa (1918): established as a boys'
school in Kizingo, Mombasa City, from which
later emerged The Aga Khan High School, Mombasa. It is operated by Aga Khan
Education Services of the Shia Ismaili community of Muslims[19][20]
4.
The Duchess of Gloucester School (1932): (now Pangani Girls High
School), established in Pangani, Nairobi
5.
Oshwal Academy (1950):
established in Parklands, Nairobi;
managed by the Oshwal Education and Relief Board (OERB)
of the Jain community
6.
Arya Vedic School (1950): established at Puri Bhavan, Ngara, Nairobi by The Arya Stree Samaj movement. It gave rise to
Arya Vedic Academy
7.
The Aga Khan Primary School, Kisumu (1952): established in Kisumu City. It is operated by Aga Khan
Education Services of the Shia Ismaili community of Muslims[21]
8.
Parklands Arya Girls High School (1957): established in Parklands, Nairobi by
the Arya Samaj community in
Kenya[22]
9.
A co-educational school (1957): established in Ngara, Nairobi, from which emerged Ngara Girls' High
School and in 1962 present-day Highway Secondary
School for boys[23]
10.
The Aga Khan High School (1961): co-educational day school established
in Westlands, Nairobi.
It is operated by Aga Khan
Education Services of the Shia Ismaili community of Muslims[24]
Schools for Ethnic Europeans
1.
Rift Valley Academy (1903):
established in Kijabe town, Kiambu County as the first up-country
European school by Charles
Hurlburt of the Africa Inland Mission.
In 1967 it was the first school in Africa to receive American accreditation.[25]
2.
The European School, Nairobi (1910): (now Nairobi
Primary School), co-educational school from which emerged The Prince
of Wales School in 1931 at Kabete (now Nairobi School) and The European Girls'
Secondary School in 1935 (now The Kenya High School)
3.
Loreto Convent
Msongari (1921): "Msongari" being a corruption
of Muthangari where the school is located
in Westlands Sub-county,
was established by the Sisters of Loreto
4.
Hill Preparatory School (1922): (later Limuru Girls High School in
1926), established by European settler, Arnold Buttler McDonell, on his
Kiambethu Farm in Limuru, Kiambu County
5.
The Hill School (1923): established in Eldoret as European Primary School, later
Central School then Highlands School, which in 1956 amalgamated with New Girls'
Secondary School (today Moi Girls' High School, Eldoret)
6.
Kenton College (January 1924): (now Kenton College Preparatory School),
established in Kijabe, moving to Kileleshwa in 1935, taking its roots from
The Grange School at Limuru
7.
Pembroke House (1927): established in Gilgil, Nakuru County. It was named after the Cambridge
College attended by its founder Headmaster, Harold Turner, and
has been owned by Kenya Educational Trust Limited since 1959[26]
8.
Kitale Primary (1929): (later Kitale Academy, now Kitale School)
in Kitale, Trans-Nzoia County
9.
St. Andrews
School, Turi (1931): established in Molo, Nakuru County[27]
10.
Mombasa European Primary School (1935): (MEPS, from 1962 Mombasa Primary
School), established in Mombasa[28]
11.
Greensteds School (1936):
established in Nakuru
12.
Loreto High
School, Limuru (December 1936): established by the Sisters of Loreto in Limuru
13.
St. Mary's
School, Nairobi (1939): established by the Holy Ghost
Fathers, today located on the land of St. Austin’s Parish in Muthangari, Westlands Sub-county
14.
Loreto Convent Valley Road (1941): established by the Sisters of Loreto in Upper Hill, Nairobi
15.
Mara Hills Academy (February 1947): established in Tanganinyika by
the Eastern Mennonite Mission and relocated
to Gigiri, Nairobi in 1967 as Rosslyn Academy
16.
The Duke of York School (1949): (now Lenana School)
17.
Delamere School (1956): established in Nairobi, from which emerged in 1959 New Girls
Secondary School (later Delamere Girls High School, now State House Girls High School) and Delamere
Boys High School (later Simba Secondary School, now Upper
Hill School)[29]
1.
Strathmore College (1961):
later Strathmore College of Arts and Sciences, and then the parallel Strathmore
School and Strathmore College School of Accountancy. The latter merged with
Kianda Secretarial College in 1993, and in 2002 became the current Strathmore University.
Established under the guidance of the Opus Dei founder, Saint Josemaría Escrivá,
in Muthangari, Westlands Sub-county as
a residential Sixth form college and
the country's first multi-ethnic plus
poly-religious school; currently managed by Study Centres of Kenya[30][31]
2.
Kianda Secretarial College (1961): established by Kianda Foundation
in Westlands Sub-County, Nairobi, in 1993 merged with Strathmore College
School of Accountancy to form Strathmore University.[32]
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