The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) is set to release results of the 2024 Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) on Monday January 6, 2024, the Ministry of Education has announced.

In a press statement dated January 4, 2024, Ministry of Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos urged parents with pupils who did KPSEA to check their results as soon as the KNEC portal is opened on Monday.

“The Kenya Primary School Education Assessment learner reports will be accessible on school portals in the week commencing January 6, 2025,” read part of the statement.

KPSEA is a national examination for Grade 6 learners under the competency-based curriculum (CBC).

According to the Education Ministry, the pioneer cohort of CBC will transit to Grade 9 this term as scheduled.

Meanwhile, the Education CS maintained that the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination results will be released within the first two weeks of January.

The Ministry announced that term one of 2025 will have 13 weeks, with 5 days for mid term break. 

All schools are expected to re-open for the first term on Monday, January 6, 2025.

A total of 1,313,913 candidates sat for KPSEA across the country last year, in 35,573 examination centres. 

“To ensure a seamless transition to Grade 9, the government initiated the construction of 16,000 classrooms countrywide in four phases. The completion status thus far is at 93 per cent,” Ministry noted in a statement.

The Education cabinet secretary also confirmed that 9,926,618 textbooks have been dispatched to schools countrywide.

“The distribution is expected to be complete by Monday, January 6, 2025, to facilitate smooth academic operations,” said Migos.