You won’t believe the school fee some people pay: Top 10 expensive schools in Kenya

Monday, 21 September 2015 - Over the past three weeks, the Kenyan education sector has been thrown into a crisis following a national wide teacher’s strike that has so far seen schools-both private and public-shut down indefinitely.

The strike is aimed at pushing the teacher’s employer, TSC, to implement a pay rise as ordered by the courts. 

But as most parents in the country continue to lament over the crisis, there are those who are oblivious of what is going on in the education sector as their kids are still going to school.

These are parents with children who school in the most affluent institutions where school fees per term ranges between Kshs 675K and Kshs 2M!

Most of these schools offer the IGCSE curriculum, meaning they remain unaffected by the ongoing teacher’s strike as according to the Education Ministry’s public relations officer, Mr Kennedy Buhere, schools that are affected by the closure order are those that offer 8-4-4 education system and are registered with the Kenya National Examination Council.

Below is a list of some of those schools and their school fee per term:

1. International School of Kenya - Ksh 2,070,204 per term.

2 Greensteds International School - Located 6km from Nakuru and just near Nakuru National Park Ksh 1,010,000 per term

3. St Andrews Turi  - Located in Turi which is between Kericho and Nakuru. Tuition fees per term is around Ksh 994,500

4. Brookhouse School - Offers a British curriculum and fees per semester is Ksh 830,000.

5. Peponi School - Allegedly owned by the Kenyatta Family and is located just a few kilometers from the Thika Highway. Fees per term is around Ksh792,000

6 Hillcrest International School. - It is located in the South West of Nairobi in Karen.  Fees per term is Ksh 782,000 on average

7. Braeburn Imani International School. Located along Mang’u Road,offers British Curriculum at the early levels. Fees per term is around Ksh 727,000

8. Gems Cambridge International School. - It is located in Karen. Tuition fee is around Ksh 718,000 per term

9. The Banda School - In Lang’ata just next to the Nairobi National Park. Here you pay an average of Ksh695,000 per term in tuition fees.

10. Kenton College Preparatory School. Located in Kileleshwa. It costs an average of Ksh 675,918 per term. 

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