The Ministry of Education has extended the admission deadline for Grade 10 learners to Wednesday, January 21, in a bid to achieve 100 percent transition, amid ongoing reviews and delayed reporting in some regions.
The Grade 10 admission process was initially scheduled to end on Friday, following the start of reporting on Monday.
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba said the extension was necessitated by the slow consolidation of reporting data, with Eastern and North Eastern regions yet to submit their final figures.
"We have found it necessary to extend the Grade 10 admission deadline to Wednesday next week to ensure no learner is left out, except in critical cases involving clear placement errors," Mr Ogamba told Nation .
A total of 1.13 million candidates sat the 2025 Kenya Junior School Education Assessment (KJSEA), whose results were released in December 2025, with the government subsequently opening a review window that attracted applications from more than 300,000 learners seeking reassessment of their scores.
“The review process is still ongoing and was initially expected to conclude on Friday, but we have not yet finalised all decisions. This has contributed to the delay, and we are working to complete the review so that learners can proceed to the schools they have been placed in. Going forward, only critical cases involving obvious placement errors will be considered,” Mr Ogamba said.
The ministry had on Wednesday said that some 301,701 learners had reported to school, according to a tally from its online system.
This represents just over a quarter of the 1,130,459 candidates who sat the 2025 Kenya Junior School Education Assessment (KJSEA).
Of those who had reported as of Wednesday, 151,740 are boys (50.3 percent), while 149,961 are girls (49.7 percent).
Most learners have joined C4 or sub-county schools (41 percent), followed by C2 extra-county schools (25 percent), C1 national schools (18 percent), and C3 county schools (15 percent).
Reporting will continue throughout the week, but parents whose children have been admitted to schools far from their home counties say high transport costs are adding to the financial strain, raising concerns as students enter the final stretch of the Competency-Based Education (CBE) system.
