Kenya High School
Coordinates: 1°16′29″S 36°46′54″E / 1.274586°S 36.781652°E The Kenya High School is a public girl's high school located in Kileleshwa suburb in Nairobi, Kenya.
The school was established in 1908 as the European Girls' School. It was renamed to The Kenya High School upon independence in 1963. The school enrolls about 1200 students annually. It is a boarding school.
A national high school located in the leafy suburbs of Nairobi Kenya, which still retains some English traditions handed down from the settler era. It is primarily a boarding school with 10 boarding houses named after notable women in history and Kenya geographical features; for example, Baden Powell House, and does take its day scholars on a case by case basis. It consistently performs well in national secondary exams and has enforced a proper code of conduct to be followed by all.
Alumni
- See also Category:Alumni of Kenya High School
History
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. In 1939, the school was renamed The Kenya High School. http://www.kenyahigh.ac.ke/
Enrollment, housing and student life
Kenya High School has an enrollment of about 900 students each year. The ten houses [dorms] are home to about 90% of these students for eight and a half months in a year. Each of the houses accommodates about 80 students; all from the four different class levels i.e. form one through form four. The houses are: Tausi[Huxley]/Sabaki[Cubbie], Chania[Beale]/Yala[Nightingale], Nyali[Mortimer], Suswa[Mitchell], Sagana[Hamilton]/Naivasha[Bronton], BP/Mara[Curie]. The symmetrical architectural design of the school has two houses in each building except for the two in the middle, which are home to one house each. There is a matron for every two houses that share a building except Nyali and Suswa. Besides the matrons, disciplinary actions in the dorms are up to the prefects -heads of houses [blue-rugs] and their deputies [red-rugs]. Besides the "blue-rugs" and the matrons, the principal and her deputy are the main disciplinarians. Although minimal, academically -faculty often have the upper hand in student discipline.
References
- ↑ Faith Wambura Ngunjiri (23 February 2010). Women's Spiritual Leadership in Africa: Tempered Radicals and Critical Servant Leaders. SUNY Press. pp. 79–82. ISBN 978-1-4384-2978-6.