2,000 ECDEs shut down even as number of learners surge
Bonje Pefa ECD Nursery School Pupils have their class outside after their school was demolished during the recent house demolitions at the Bonje area in Kwale County along the Mombasa-Nairobi Highway in this photo taken on May 10, 2021.
More than 2,000 early childhood development education centres (ECDEs) were shut down last year even as more pupils enrolled into pre-primary one and two across the country.
Most of the closed ECDEs were public (1,411), while at least 777 private pre-primary schools were shut, the Economic Survey 2023 has shown. The survey also shows that at least 190 private primary schools stopped operations, even as 65 more public primary schools were registered.
