Public senior school
Loreto High School Limuru
A senior school in Limuru sub-county, Kiambu County. It offers STEM, Social Sciences and Arts & Sports Science, with 27 subject combinations.
School details admission facts are for the 2026 intake
- Cluster
- C1Ministry of Education senior-school cluster.
- Gender
- Girls
- Boarding or day
- Boarding
- 2026 fees
- KSh 53,554 or 40,535 per year, depending on the approved tierGovernment-set schedule, not an individual school invoice.
- Ownership
- Public
- Sponsor
- Catholic Church
- Founded
- 1936
- Motto
- Esto Fidelis
- Postal address
- PRIVATE BAG LIMURU
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
Loreto High School Limuru scored a mean of 9.40 (B) in KCSE 2025, 4.5 points above the national average, down from 9.54 in 2023. Over 2019–2025 it ranks 21st of 564 schools in Kenya and 5th of 69 in Kiambu County with 3 or more years of published results.
| 2025 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | 9.400 | 9.540 | 9.120 | 9.464 | 9.390 |
| Grade | B | B+ | B | B | B |
| Candidates | – | 355 | 336 | 315 | 267 |
Pathways and subject combinations checked 15 October 2026
STEM15 combinationsPure Sciences 3 · Applied Sciences 7 · Technical Studies 5
Social Sciences9 combinationsHumanities & Business Studies 9
Arts & Sports Science3 combinationsArts 2 · Sports 1
Subjects in these combinations · 20
Agriculture, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Christian Religious Education, Computer Studies, Electricity, Fasihi ya Kiswahili, Fine Arts, French, General Science, Geography, History & Citizenship, Home Science, Literature in English, Media Technology, Music & Dance, Physics, Sports & Recreation, Theatre & FilmSenior schools in Kiambu County offering STEM · Social Sciences · Arts & Sports Science
Codes and registration
- KNEC code
- 11200005
- UIC
- GATC
- School code
- G2010134
- Level
- Senior school
- Student needs
- Ordinary
School figures most recent counts
- Students enrolled
- 1,750
- Teaching staff
- 70
- TSC teachers
- 57
- Board teachers
- 13
- Students per teacher
- 25.0
- Dormitories
- 11
- Laboratories
- 6
- Dining halls
- 1
- Toilets
- 231
- Transition to university or college after KCSE 2023
- 96%
School history
Loreto High School Limuru opened on 4 December 1936, founded by Loreto sisters from Ireland, Catholic missionaries who wanted to give African girls the academic education they were then denied. It started with seven girls, and in 1938 four of them sat the primary examination and began training as teachers.
Its first secondary class began in 1947, and its first two candidates sat the Senior Cambridge examination in 1954. A second stream was added in 1956. It was given permission to start an A-level arts class in 1970, and an A-level science stream with a laboratory followed in 1981.
Today it is a national girls’ boarding school in Limuru, Kiambu County, sponsored by the Catholic Church. Its motto, “Esto Fidelis”, is Latin for “Be faithful”.
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Data sources
School history and updated details use the sources below. Other details come from the 2013 school data. Classification and codes come from the 2026 senior-school register.
Register, pathways and fees
- Ministry of Education Grade 10 selection portal (KEMIS) pathways, combinations, emblem · checked 15 October 2026
- December 2025 senior-school list, row 59 classification and codes
- June 2025 senior-school register, row 2830 checked 1 October 2026
- Kenya Gazette Notice No. 1449 2026 fee schedule
KCSE results
- KNEC for 2006–2010, the school’s audit reports and newspapers since: every source, on the results page 2006–2025
2013 school data
- Kenya Open Data Initiative 2013 school data
Map
- © OpenStreetMap contributors; county outline: IEBC via UN OCHA map data