St. Cyprian Secondary School has called on the local leadership to intervene in their financial distress that has crippled the running of the school.
Principal Khodek Onyancha said that capitation funds received from the government was too little to fulfill its development projections as most parents pay school fees in installments.
He said that requests for grants sent severally to the Ministry and the area NG-CDF have all been in vain.
Onyancha appealed to Kitutu Masaba MP Clive Gisairo and Rigoma Ward MCA Nyambega Gisesa to visit the school and offer financial assistance.
“Our school is growing with a big population but the facilities are not enough to accommodate them,” he said.
He attributed the expanding population, standing at 850, to good performance in KCSE exams with positive growth registered since 2022.
Onyancha noted that in 2023, the school attained a mean score of 7.3 an improvement from 6.1 the previous year, with 79 students attaining direct entry marks to public universities.
He said that the school has registered 126 promising candidates for this year’s national exams but feared that their performances might be marred by lack of enough facilities.
The Principal cited overstretching and using 9 classrooms for the entire school population instead of the required 16 classrooms.
Onyancha further lamented that despite water being under the county government, they rarely receive it and are forced to travel for long distances to seek water for their domestic use.
By Enock Okong’o
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