Secondary school

Kianda School - Secondary

A secondary school in Nairobi County.

School details

Level
Senior school
Gender
Girls
Boarding or day
Day
Ownership
Private
Sponsor
Private Individual
Student needs
Ordinary
Postal address
48328-00100GPO NBI
School code
P1010137
Next placements

Not released yet for the January 2027 intake. Last year: 19 December 2025. KEMIS placement portal · Get an alert when they’re released.

KCSE results the latest 5 years we hold

Kianda School - Secondary scored a mean of 8.99 (B) in KCSE 2021, 4.7 points above the national average.

20212010200920082007
Mean8.99010.3049.5949.5259.625
GradeBB+B+B+B+
Candidates–69645956

Pathways and subject combinations

Not available yet

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Older records figures from the 2013 records; counts made in 2007

Students enrolled
264
Teaching staff
23
Students per teacher
11.5:1 (2007)
Acres
0
Acreage per enrolment
25.1
Staff counted in 2007 ›
RoleMenWomenTotal
TSC teachers000
Local authority teachers000
PTA and board teachers000
Other teachers12223
Non-teaching staff121729

About the school · written in 2013

Kianda School is a private, all-girls with a Catholic ethos located in the Westlands in Nairobi, Kenya.Kianda School is consistently ranked as one of the best performing schools in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E) exam. The school was opened in 1977 by The Kianda Foundation, a non-profit organisation that aims to better Kenyan women’s lives through education and Christian. Values,Discipline is maintained by a merit-demerit system. Good deeds earn merits, while wrong ones earn demerits. An accumulation of more than five demerits a week results in detention.
The school has contributed to the building of the Kenyan economy through the production of great minds which include;
Valerie Kimani, singer and actress; winner of Tusker Project Fame Season 1
Carol Mandi, journalist; host of the talk show Sebuleni; former editor of True Love East Africa magazine
Lyra Aoko, singer; Samsung Zikistar ambassador
Rachael Kiragu, radio presenter at Uptown and Homeboyz F.M.
Maureen Kunga, singer; member of the band Elani
Margaret Kenyatta

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Data sources

The school description and other details come from the 2013 school data. Staff and facility figures show their recorded years.

KCSE results

  1. KNEC for 2006–2010, the school’s audit reports and newspapers since: every source, on the results page 2006–2021

2013 school data and references

  1. Kenya Open Data Initiative 2013 school data
  2. Jump up^ Kianda School website – The Logo.
  3. Jump up^ The Bible.
  4. Jump up^ Kianda School website – Academics.
  5. Jump up to:a b Kianda School – Admissions. Jump up^ Kianda Scholarship Fund.
  6. Jump up^ The Standard Newspaper Online.

Map

  1. © OpenStreetMap contributors; county outline: IEBC via UN OCHA map data