All About Maseno School

Maseno school is located 25 Km from Kisumu. Set a few meters from the busy Kisumu- Busia road and on the floor of a forested hilly landscape, the school enjoys the scenic views of the Mabungo hills whose natural beauty is further augmented by trees planted by students over the years. Close to the school is the Maseno University, Maseno Mission Hospital which serves the district community consisting of locals living around the place and University students. Interaction between the university students and Maseno school student is commonplace and fostered by the close proximity between the school and the University. Maseno School Sits on the equator and has its portion on both the southern Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere.

Maseno School is a National School and its status charges it with the responsibility of nurturing the greatest minds in the country. It therefore admits some the top students in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education Examinations from every region the country, giving it a student body of intellectuals with a wide and diverse array of cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. This not only makes the best out of the best but also serves to cultivate a sense of national unity among the student extending far beyond the confines of the school through the students’ parents and teachers.

SCHOOL AND ACADEMICS

Founded in 1906 by missionaries, Maseno School is the oldest school in Kenya with a student body of about One Thousand Two hundred students. All students admitted to the school are hosted in one of the ten hostels present in the school for each of the three yearly academic terms spanning about three months each beginning in January. The students have a month long holiday after each term.

The school was initially a five streamed school but has a new stream introduced. This was as a result of the growing demand for admission. The form ones and twos therefore have six streams while the form threes and fours have five streams each. Each stream has about fifty students.

Maseno School offers O’ Level education. The subjects taught are: Mathematics, English Language, Kiswahili Language, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, History, Christian Religious Education, Aviation Technology, Agriculture, Power Mechanics, Electricity, French Language, Business Studies and Computer Studies.

The syllabus is set up by the ministry of education and is stipulated to be completed in four years. The school, having the best brains in the country, completes the four year course in three years, giving the students a whole year of revision and content perfection before the final national O’ Level exams.

Subjects are taught in lessons of least forty minutes s each. Each class has nine such lessons a day from Monday to Friday. There are three breaks between the lessons. One after the fourth lesson (Tea Break), one after the sixth lesson (Lunch Break) and another after the ninth lesson (Games time.)

The school then breaks for a compulsory games time where all the students participate in one activity. Games time run from 4PM to 6 PM when the students freshen up, have Supper and then settle in class once again by 7pm for personal study for two and a half hours before going to bed. A further two hour personal study begins at 5am attended by all students.

Promotion to the next class is based on the School’s Three C’s Policy: Character, Conduct and Class work. The academic performance is determined by students’ average scores in three sets of examinations done each month in all of the three yearly terms.

KCSE National Exams

An average of Two hundred and fifty students sits for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Examinations yearly in Maseno School. The school has consistently produced some of the best students in the Nation. The school boasts of producing the best students in different subjects category and has consistently led in the province. The school is also consistently in the Top Ten National Ranking of Schools.

98% of the graduating class from Maseno School proceeds to universities and colleges all over the world. These include all the universities in Kenya and several international institutions of higher learning.

 

 

Maseno School – Location and Contacts

School Name: Maseno School
Physical Location: Kisumu-Busia Road

Address: P.O. Box 120, Maseno
City/Town : Kisumu
County: Kisumu
School Category: public
School Code : 39700001
Phone Number: 0713-715956, 0738-934812
Email: [email protected]
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Maseno School- Highlights

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Maseno School – Facilities

School Library
Swimming Pool
Sports Field
Computer Lab
Science Laboratory