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Nyangwa Boys and St. Bakhita Siakago defy the odds in Embu, posting stellar KCSE results that challenge the dominance of well-funded national schools.

In the dry, dusty plains of Mbeere South, where water is scarce and resources scarcer, a miracle has happened. Nyangwa Boys High School (and its neighboring mixed day schools) has posted a stunning performance in the 2025 KCSE exams, recording a mean score that rivals national schools with ten times the budget.
While the headlines focused on Alliance and Kabarak, the real story of resilience was unfolding at Nyangwa. The school produced three straight As and a mean score of over 8.5, propelling dozens of students from peasant farming families into university.
The success is not limited to one school. St. Bakhita Siakago Girls in Mbeere North also recorded five straight As. But it is the performance of the smaller, mixed day schools that has shocked education officials.
"These are students who walk 10 kilometers to school. They don't have steak for dinner; they have githeri. Yet they have beaten students who are driven to school in V8s," said a visibly emotional Principal Patrick Maina of Moi High School-Mbiruri (which also shone with 23 As), acknowledging the rising competition from the sub-county schools.
Interviews with teachers reveal a strategy based on "Targeted Intervention."
For Mbeere, this is not just about grades; it is about economic liberation. A university degree is a ticket out of the semi-arid poverty that grips the region. As the students celebrated with leaves and dust, the message to the rest of Kenya was clear: brilliance is not a monopoly of the rich.
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