Nyahururu Elite High School is in Laikipia County (Laikipia East Constituency).
Nyahururu Elite High School is a boys boarding secondary school.
Nyahururu Elite Boys Senior School is a private boys' boarding school in Nyahururu, near Thomson's Falls. It belongs to Nyahururu Elite Schools, which opened in 1981 as a nursery and kindergarten and moved to its present site in 1987.
The high school took its first students in 1997, and its first candidates sat KCSE and IGCSE in 2000. It used to be mixed: girls sat KCSE here until 2009, the year its sister school next door, Nyahururu Elite Girls High School, also entered candidates under its own name. In 2010 all its KCSE candidates were boys. It still offers both KCSE and the Cambridge IGCSE. In the 2013 KCSE it ranked second in Nyandarua County.
Details
School Code: D2040003
Address: 327-20300
Level: Secondary School
Day/Boarding: Boarding
Gender: Boys
Ownership: Private
Sponsor: Private
Founded: 1997
Student Needs: Ordinary
Facts
Acreage: 7
Acreage per enrolment: 60.4
Pupil Teacher Ratio: 11.1
Total Enrolment: 423
Total Teaching staff: 38
Location
County: Laikipia
Constituency: Laikipia East
Province: Central
District: Nyandarua
Division: Nyahururu
Location: Nyahururu
Sub Location: Manguo
Staff
Other Male Teachers: 33
Other Female Teachers: 5
Non Teaching Staff Male: 21
Non Teaching Staff Female: 22
View map and search for more schoolsPathways and subject combinations checked 15 October 2026
STEM · 1 combination
Pure Sciences · 1
- Biology, Chemistry, Physics (ST1048)
Social Sciences · 1 combination
Humanities & Business Studies · 1
- Business Studies, Geography, History & Citizenship (SS2025)
Arts & Sports Science · 1 combination
Sports · 1
- General Science, Sports & Recreation, Theatre & Film (AS2038)
Subjects in these combinations · 9
Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, General Science, Geography, History & Citizenship, Physics, Sports & Recreation, Theatre & Film
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Data sources
- Pathways, subject combinations and emblems: Ministry of Education Grade 10 selection portal (KEMIS); checked 15 October 2026.
- Nyahururu Elite Schools, About us
- Nyahururu Elite Schools, Nyahururu Elite Boys Senior School: KCSE
- Business Daily, Private schools which offer 8-4-4 syllabus, 31 December 2015
- KNEC, KCSE results by school 2006 to 2010 (candidates by sex)
- KNEC, 2013 KCSE top and bottom five schools by county (Nyahururu Elite Senior School 07214110, Nyandarua; Nyahururu Elite Girls Secondary School 30556320, Laikipia)