The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has cautioned schools against misleading parents and the public by circulating false or inaccurate analyses of the recently released Kenya Junior School Education Assessment (KJSEA) results.
In a notice issued on Monday, November 15, KNEC said some institutions have been publishing results analyses that purport to show aggregate learner and school performance an approach the council described as misleading and inconsistent with the Competency-Based Education (CBE) system.
KNEC emphasised that, unlike the former 8-4-4 education system, the CBE framework does not generate aggregate scores such as mean grades or school rankings.
Instead, each subject is assessed independently, and learners’ achievements are reported using performance levels rather than total marks.
The council urged schools to stop issuing what it termed fake KJSEA analyses, noting that the new system is designed to nurture individual learners’ strengths and potential rather than rank them against one another.
According to KNEC, this approach ensures that a learner’s strong performance in one subject is not diminished by weaker outcomes in another, and as such, there is no overall school mean score under KJSEA.
The Ministry of Education released the 2025 KJSEA results on Thursday, December 11.
The assessments were conducted between October 27 and November 3 and evaluated the readiness of the pioneer CBE cohort set to transition to senior secondary school in January 2026.
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba reported that a total of 1,130,459 learners sat the 2025 KJSEA, comprising 578,630 boys and 551,829 girls.
He noted that learners performed best in Hindu Religious Education, Integrated Science, Social Studies, Creative Arts and Sports, Kiswahili, Christian Religious Education, and Agriculture.
Under the KJSEA framework, candidates are placed into four performance bands: Exceeding Expectations, Meeting Expectations, Approaching Expectations, and Below Expectations, marking a departure from the traditional grading and ranking system.
